Glacier Goggles
[Usual reminder: if the terms “PQ” and “USAP” don’t mean anything to you, start here, and work your way forward.] So. Maybe it’s something that distinguishes a particular kind of […]
[Usual reminder: if the terms “PQ” and “USAP” don’t mean anything to you, start here, and work your way forward.] So. Maybe it’s something that distinguishes a particular kind of […]
Got back from lunch to find email from Bill, over with the US Antarctic Program, who wanted to call to ask me a question. Sure – he’s great fun to […]
“One wonders, after reading a great many such firsthand accounts, if polar explorers were not somehow chosen for the empty and solemn splendor of their prose styles – or even […]
First off, if the terms “PQ” and “USAP” don’t mean anything to you, STOP READING RIGHT NOW. Go over to my previous post and read it. That’s okay – I’ll wait. You […]
Okay, this isn’t going to be news to those of you who see me every day – it’s been kind of dominating my thoughts and conversation for a while now. […]
The idea behind the Seasteading Institute is to identify and solve the technological, social and legal challenges behind creating large, self-sustaining floating communities/cities/nation-states. To build experience and scale up, TSI […]
For those (few) of you who have been following my gmail chat status, let me offer a slight clarification. To be technically accurate, I did not “fall off a ladder” – […]
The full quotation is “The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts” -Yvon Chouinard Chouinard is the founder of Patagonia, and […]
No, technically it doesn’t make any sense, but I’m asking for a bit of literary license here to bend the rules of rhetoric in favor of the experiential world. Yesterday […]
The first call this morning was from Andrew over at the restoration shop. They’d make it all better, but they’d umm, uh… dropped my airplane. Not logistically – they’d physically dropped […]