“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 […]
The Path to the Pole
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 […]
A Confession
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 Floating Festival That is Not Ephemerisle
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 […]
A clarification
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” – […]
When everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts
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 […]
On the other hand – apricots
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 […]
Your Horoscope: "Not a good day for vintage conveyances"
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 […]
Woke up speaking French this morning
Really – it was the strangest thing. One of those anxiety dreams, where you’re trying to run to the right train through the Mobeus-shaped station built of slippery water-slide tubes. […]
Bouncing around New England
Haven’t been on a writing spree here, have I? And this in spite of the perambulations around New England. Poking around Cambridge with Andy and Devon, then up to Dartmouth […]