week one ABQ tally so far: two yapping dogs accompanied by the classic “No No NO!!!” owner lady, two geriatric heeler mixes, one of which tried to have a little run, several unruly large dogs on 30 ft flexi leashes and one, only one very exciting corgi-heeler puppy, which, even in this altitude, didn’t have [...]
recently a friend of mine with kids told me that her 7 year old son had started skateboarding and soon afterwards was begging to be taken to a real skate park. so off they went, somewhere in the safe environs of South Pasadena, to a park filled with older kids popping ollies, being cool and [...]
it rained dead animals left and right this week so i am only posting pictures of cuteness. on Tuesday at dog agility class where our teacher has goats, chickens, bunnies, turtles and dogs, we found out one of the turtles had been sat on to death by its older wiser fatter friend. I thought turtles [...]
time is a funny thing, especially “brain time,” which is the clock inside our heads that we rely on as “real,” even though it’s actually dependent on our subjective consciousness and perception rather than fixed increments of seconds, microseconds, etc. the April 25, 2011 issue of the New Yorker has a fabulous article by Burkhard [...]
Back decades ago, when the chain stores started invading NY, and every corner seemed to sprout a Starbucks or a Rite Aid, Blockbuster Video, Bon au Pain, or a Gap, a friend of mine so aptly said “LA has won.” Now that the city boasts even more shops from the global marketplace (on this trip [...]
in between the irrational numbers of e and π is the number 3, a bastion of rationality when it comes to all kinds of things.
Errol Morris’ piece on Thomas Kuhn, Saul Kripke, Pythagorus, and incommensurability is a giant brain bender, and it forced me to back the bus up many years. i read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions a long time ago as an undergraduate crashing a seminar led by Todd Gitlin, but i was taught the weird concept [...]
here’s a self-portrait in the rain, looking at the mudding going on inside the new Resnick pavilion at LACMA. whereas our little project spells out “ATM,” this bit of wall spells “POM.”
