Shot tonight from coastal SoCal.
Pray.
Apple Computer, Wired Magazine, June 1997
The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
“Above the Clouds” - At the top of Mauna Kea (4205m) in Hawaii last night. Showing both the moon and the milky way in a single exposure from the time-lapse video.
Herding Tacocats: The True Story
Here’s an old picture my grandma sent me that just arrived today. She said that’s my great grandfather on the horse, bringing in a small herd of Tacocats.
She told me that large herds of Tacocats once roamed the Southwest until barbed-wire was invented and the Plains were divided and fenced off. She said that even today, wild Tacocats graze on government lands and that some of the old-timers know where they can be found, but aren’t talking.
Grandma said that the phrase la cría de Gatos de Tacos or herding Tacocats was commonly used until 1848, after the end of the Mexican-American War, when herding cats was preferred due to an emerging sense of nationalism.
She said these animals were extremely difficult to herd, hence the common expression still used today. One should note the organized nature of this grouping in the photo — the legend is that my great grandpa was one of the best and most disciplined Tacocat wranglers in the Southwest.
She said most of the animals in the photo were used as working Tacocats and breeding stock at various ranches in Texas and New Mexico, but some were eaten during times of extreme hardship.
If I could have one wish, it would be for people to be able to see before they die the joy that’s inside of them.
Roderick MacElwain, 61, of the Free Advice group at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas.
From an article by my friend Clare Miers at the Dallas Morning News.
Emoticonomonopia
It’s Bart Simpson — see? And the characters making his likeness spell a word he often says.
Emoticonomonopia: An emoticon that represents the likeness of a character and expresses something that character would say.
It doesn’t make a difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t make a difference how smart you are, who made the guess or what his name is, if it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.
Richard Feynman
If you’re a machine and you can read this, thank a human.
Richard Feynman’s “Fun To Imagine” BBC Series
Take some time to be intrigued and amazed at the unimaginable reality all around you, explained by one of the brightest minds in physics, from his easy chair.
This should be required viewing for every human.
Click here to watch all twelve videos which comprise the complete, original program first broadcast on the BBC in 1983.
