Last month I popped over to Vancouver for a weekend with a friend. Here are some moments. biking through Stanley Park walking along English Beach lot’s of great food visiting Grainville Island on a foggy day popping over to the art gallery for the exhibition on mashups the gorgeous Capilano (suspension bridge) area new memories
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“This Japanese Inn Has Been Open For 1,300 Years”
If walls could talk, here are some that I’d want to listen to. This is a slower-paced movie and I think more than anything I was intrigued by the idea of anything lasting for 1,000 years.
Robert Rushkin – The Artist [video]
I saw this video yesterday and was amazed by his perspective. I admire people who are so inquisitive about the world and have what seems like an bottomless well of creativity they reach into to produce artwork. Sometimes it’s hard to remember to take that next step and make the the thing you’re curious about. Robert Rushkin…
The making of gold leaf [video]
I came across a click-bait title about this video and had some low expectations. It’s a ‘how-its-made’a bout gold leaf. The incredible part is that, when you think it was sufficiently complicated and they should have stopped approximately 1/10th of the actual process. It’s an incredibly long, labor-intensive process and I can’t imagine how someone came…
When nothing was the same
That six years post yesterday has made me think about a lot about my relationship with time. I’ve heard people describe the way they’ve evolved throughout their life as: “I have a deep core of me. I might change a lot on the surface, but the light of my truest self appears in the shadows.” I was…
Hello, World! no. 734
Today is my blog’s 6th birthday and post number 734. I remember sitting in my yellow room in Wyoming—hunched up on a cheap chair on a particleboard desk at my HP computer—setting up a wordpress.com blog. An automatic “Hello, World!” post and example comment is part of every new install. It was my junior year of…
For all the language nerds
I found this Merriam-Webster ask the editor series and had to share. So fascinating!
Is now a good time?
My co-worker said something about the value of notifications I thought was absolutely brilliant: It’s like we’re trying to convince the whole world they have a cold because we’re selling tissues. But really we’re selling them tissues with snot already in it. To put it so much less poetically, a lot of the services we offer boast being…
Butternut squash bread
My mother makes this and it’s one of my favorites of all sweet breads. It’s very moist (almost like bread pudding) and not-too sweet. My mom tells me she adapted a banana bread recipe with butternut squash and used less sugar. I pretend it’s healthy.
…And no fruit juice (video)
I saw someone post this video who surprised me (given the title). It’s not what you’d expect. I’ve ended up watching it multiple times now, so I must like it.