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Better Left Unread (or, even better, unwritten)
(written last night) A whole slew of notions today have gotten me rather riled up. Enough at least, that I’m awake at 2:30 AM instead of sleeping so I can maximize my research tomorrow. Here they are, in no particular … -
Weekly Photo Challenge & Myanmar
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Grand Scaling It
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BurjDubai22.08.07.jpg I've always been infatuated with skyscrapers. However, this picture is quite amazing, given that it is absolutely rudimentary and doesn't really make any o… -
Weekly Photo Challenge
This weeks subject is suggested by brilliantlypure Tranquility (c) Colin Nisbet 2007 The Admiral Bridge spans the distance between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. It is the busiest commercial point at any border cro… -
At the End of the Longest Day...
Summer's ended. It has that feel in the air, an invigorating chill and the way the sun looks, the hues the light takes on now seem more tempered now than in the earlier part of the month. I've kept my windows open to… -
Law School Blues
Today feels like one of those where I want to crawl underneath a rock. -
The Slow March to a Global Jonestown
I have discovered that the Backstreet Boys have reunited. I can now kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. With apologies to the late Pablo Picasso, I logged off my email account to see the headline that the Back… -
Weekly Photo Challenge & Gaudi's Casa Battlo
This weeks subject is suggested by Fetherland. Texture This is from one of the most creative architectural genuises of the last century, Antoni Gaudi. His name is nearly synonymous with Barcelona itself as he was its … -
The Seventh Seal
I just saw an amazing film by the late Ingmar Bergman, a renowned Swedish filmmaker. This was the second time I had seen the film. It's a B&W movie (subtitled because it is filmed with Swedish actors), depicting … -
Weekly Photo Challenge
This weeks subject is suggested by Reed44Feet For those of you who like things literal... (c) Colin Nisbet 2007 Or figurative... (c) Colin Nisbet 2007 In the picture just above, we got about 14 inches of snow the … -
Debate and the Art of Pseudo-Science
I'm in Hollywood right now. Hanging out in an internet cafe, which is one of the free things I can engage in, with a four-hour old large cup of coffee, the side where the cup is glued together is slowly becoming stained… -
Weekly Photo Challenge
Mountains and Hills Subject by rainydame (c) Colin Nisbet 2006 Looking onto the Everest Base Camp
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