This was about a simple feature on a new smart dumbphone that I am pretty amped about… the phone in general, as well as what it means in general. $60 a month savings, and not losing a thing from modern (more…)
Wilbur Hot Springs as the first off grid non-tech “luxury” experience, our technological addictions…
The below is reprinted from an old blog I managed for Wilbur Hot Springs, which is physically a few hours north of San Francisco. It’s a 100% off grid hot springs and hotel / resort-ish / glamping / camping (more…)
Storm Time Lapse, Bubbly cloud time lapse
“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.” – Douglas Adams
Traffic Jam Theory regarding Traffic Waves from a calm, Zen dude.
If you think, within the first 3 seconds, that you won’t be able to hang with this guy’s voice for 7 minutes…. well don’t judge a book. This zen warrior has some massively simple points that, if we (more…)
Lao Tzu, The Tao, and reconnecting.
One of the very few “important”** books in my life is the Tao te Ching. I have always held to the Stephen Mitchell translation because he expertly crosses and mixes gender and non gender… making it (more…)