Since this blog has gone through so many iterations, I have posts in raw html, textile, and markdown formats. I need to get everything in raw html so I don’t have to worry about the proper filters being in place in my WordPress installation.
I hacked up a simple Ruby script to handle this for me. […]
I found my second geocache today in the Narrows Botanical Gardens here in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It was a neat find, but can’t give things away. Don’t want to spoil the hunt. I picked up a pet sling today and took Sassey (my dog) with me for the four mile (round trip) walk. […]
I wanted to share a select passage from Michael Pollan’s excellent Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education:
Under the pressure of this many-fronted assault, I have come to understand the distance between naturalists, who gaze benignly on all of nature’s operations, and the experienced gardener, who perforce has developed a somewhat less sentimental view. Particularly toward woodchucks. […]
Introduction
My dog woke me up around 4 AM, wanting to go for a walk. While this used to greatly annoy me, I now appreciate the time to roam around and get lost in my thoughts. The mind is in a strange state at this point, being beyond the realm of dreams, but not […]
Mark Pilgrim has an impressive and somewhat poetic article about the future of reading.