Cumberland 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 …

I'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.

1. Paw-Paw Tunnel along Maryland 51 (Scenic Byway)
2. Abandoned PA Turnpike Tunnel
3. Breezewood PA Junction

Paw Paw Tunnel

The Paw Paw Tunnel was underwhelming, mostly because the …

Where 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.

The 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 …

To 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 …

Today, 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 …

Desirability of textiles from quality to humanity

When possible I try to pay with cash. Here's why

• Credit card transactions are used to track your spending history to target advertisements. Google has access to 70% of transactions from credit and debit cards for the united states (source. Not so for cash.
• Credit cards introduce a third party …

As always, I am writing these entries in order to solidify and formulate my opinions. I may end up reversing opinions of what I write. I hope that by writing this out I may have a better understanding then the general mutterings which pass through my brain on occasion. Let …

Aboard a bus departing the Cancun airport I notice a small stepped-pyramid adjacent to the on-ramp of the high-way. It stands the height of a single story, too close to the roadway to have been constructed afterwards, but oddly prominent. Is this pyramid a lesser, forgotten Tulum or Chitzen Itza …