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Monthly Archives: February 2008

So remember all those crazy what-ifs you had?

Friday, February 1, 2008

As in, what if you lived forever? What if you traveled to the edge of the universe? What if you lived in a decade where rapid technological advancement produced a hyper-frenetic optimism about the future? Remember the fifties? I just watched Aubrey de Grey’s TED Talk, and it so unhinged my understanding of my life, [...]

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Go outside and look at the Olympic Mountains.

Friday, February 1, 2008

The Olympics are so pretty this morning. They’re lit by the sun, but sandwiched between a voluptuous mat of rain-heavy clouds, and a second layer of foggy low-liers marbling the hamlet of Ballard and the trees of further out in the Sound. Because of that reflection, punctuating the the muted shapes today, the mountains seem [...]

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