I recently purchased a twenty dollar plastic camera called a Holga which shoots on a medium format film. Don't ask me what that means I'm just learning. I'm not sure why I bought the camera but I've been taking a ton of shots and really enjoy it. If you want to see some real photography check out my friend cooper's website. He has the more photography skills then anyone I know. I found out about the Holga on makezine. It's a cool blog about building stuff. Check it out.
there is no reason to think that there is only one path to intelligent life. The selective advantage of intelligence is clearly high. Other things being equal, if you can figure the world out, you have a better chance of survival. At least until the invention of nuclear weapons.
The Song of Hiawatha
By the shores of Gitche Gumme,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
Dark behind it rose the forest,
Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
Rose the firs with cones upon them;
Bright before it beat the water,
Beat the clear and sunny water,
Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
summer is approaching fast and I've returned to the familiar position of having it off. I figure this will be one of the last chances I'll have to do whatever I want so I've thought long and hard about it and realized I want to be a baker. I'm drawn to the life of a baker because much of the job requires solitude and a willingness to be patient. For me it will be a chance to unload my head and remember what it is to enjoy simplicity. Part of me feels like Don Quixote - a little crazy in the head but this doesn't matter as long as I follow the path set before me.
The Milky Way contains 400 billion stars. There are more galaxies in the universe than stars within the Milky Way. The universe contains around 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Our sun is just one. The earth is a mear spec when compared to the other planets in our own solar system. There are 6.5 billion people in the world. The average human body contains 7*10^27 atoms. ting-a-ling
