Friday evening we stepped out to take in the foggy full-moon. I'm not one for superstition but the previous full moon claimed SOPHIE, this one was to claim its own victim, albeit mechanical. Unsuspecting, we spent a good half-hour watching the local cats play tag in the moonlight.
The …
read moreI woke up today in Carlsbad, NM. I was to drive west through the Lincoln national forest and across the Sacramento mountains. I began the day late since I was waiting for my Airbnb's dryer to finish its task.
So I headed out to La Patrona to grab a breakfast …
read moreCumberland is a neat town. It's industrial like Pittsburgh but also has a colonial feel. There are churches everywhere, and in between them you'll find truck depots, train tracks, canals, earth haulers, and other elements of industry.
The city is split by a canal. Alongside it runs a walking path …
read moreI'm keeping this short so that they actually get published. Don't expect anything elaborate.
I used Thanksgiving's low-traffic to checkout some sights near Cumberland.
The Paw Paw Tunnel was underwhelming, mostly because the …
read moreWhere I write for the sake of writing. No promise of quality. Here is an attempt at interpreting thesis 60 of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle.
read moreThe celebrity, the spectacular representation of a living human being, embodies this banality by embedding the image of a possible role. Being a …
Let us begin with a simplified version of the Mayan writing system. That is, we will encode English phonetically with the glyphs that represent sounds in Maya. We won’t have all the sounds, but oh-well!
Use the included syllabary to construct words from the associated sounds. Syllables in Maya …
read moreTo stave off the miserable Pittsburgh winter I started collecting plants and lights.
One strategy I used was to start a small Hydroponic garden of lettuce. I followed the guide on Hydroponics Indoors almost exactly. I found the website very helpful, and when I emailed the owner a clarifying question …
read moreToday, while reading a paper on Mayan Ball Courts, I came across the phrase Yax Hal Witz, or "First True Mountain." I immediately opened a tab to find the mountain. Or to find if it even existed.
If you search the phrase you end up at an article from the …
read moreDesirability of textiles from quality to humanity
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