This affecting photo essay is being linked all over the place today, but just in case you have not seen it, please do check it out. Phillip Toledano – Days with My Father.
In an interesting bit of synchronicity today also happens to be my Dad’s 60th birthday. Happy birthday Dad!
My 3 year old son is playing with his cars while I lay in bed nursing an aching back. Here is the conversation we just had:
Me: Niels, what do you think about things.. about the world?
Niels: Nothing. I am just thinking about the cars.
If only it were always so simple.
I am at a conference in Philadelphia this week. I am staying at a rather expensive hotel, the Hilton on City Ave. The room is OK, but they nickel and dime you for everything. $25 for three days of internet access! As one of my fellow conference attendees said: “If the room is under $100 [...]
Imagine that you are, in an instant, decomposed atom by atom to your core set of information. Then this information is sent to another location (nearby or faraway it does not matter) and reconstituted. Your original body was destroyed during the reading process and then a new body was created during the writing process.
1) Is [...]
I have become a sucker for posting videos…
First up are the “fainting” goats. God this is funny
[Update removed the embedded link as it slowed down my page load too much.]
Now for some fun enforcing speed limits in Denmark. Probably NSFW but if you find your self offended you probably ought to go ahead and kill [...]
Thailand has some interesting overhead wire infrastructure…
Man this thing is huge. My only real question is what exactly is that on the floor to the right of the toilet? Maybe it was not quite big enough eh?
These are some really neat pictures of Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
They actually remind me a bit of these pictures of the abandoned Russian embassy in Bangkok Thailand that I blogged about a while back.
I finally signed up over at NetFlix and as a result have been watching more movies. Here are some recent flicks that I have seen and recommend:
Donnie Darko
Corndog Man
The Office (TV series)
Touching the Void
Most mornings I wake up with the strangest songs in my head. Typically they are songs that I have not heard in a long time and I can not figure out why in the world I wake up singing them. This morning it was the “Chop Chop Master Onion’s Rap” from Parappa the Rapper, a [...]