Category Archives: US
Traders talk back to OWS…
I wonder if you can actually identify the mental illness just from the writings…
Fortune…
“My good fortune did not end there. It was sheer luck, rather than moral virtue, that I never had the criminal record many of my less fortunate friends did when I was young. It was sheer luck that neither I nor any of my family members ever had a major illness, or accident, or disability, despite lacking health insurance much of the time. How different my life could easily have been! How different the lives of others still could be.”
Please let me return…
Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.
Nicholas Carr’s Farewell…
Declaration of the Occupation…
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City | NYC General Assembly.
Well that was quick. This morning all the news outlets complained that the occupation didn’t have a single demand.
They still don’t but they seem to have found a voice.
So it begins.
American Prisons…
Are they really surprised? I thought that we all knew this by now.
Space Shuttle…
In the 1981 we were taken by a teacher and sat in a small hot room and watched the first shuttle countdown on TV. The room was too hot and we didn’t see the launch because it happened during the European night. It was a massive let down.
Watching the news the following day there was nothing we couldn’t build. Sci-fi seemed to be possible and real.
A few years later I was given a copy of this.
Pages and pages of countdown instructions, specs and plans. Again, my mind exploded with the possibilities. Whenever I see complexity I know that it’s possible to get it in order. After all, others have done it before.
I didn’t see a launch or witness a landing; I looked into it, but the timing was never right. However, the shuttle showed what was possible and gave hope in the middle of the Cold War.
I’ll miss it.
But more than anything I’ll miss being able to share the hope with my kids.
Space Shuttle: The complete missions — by Nature Video – YouTube.
The Poor…
London vs. Paris…
Ask most historians in the UK and New York became the center of the world after the Second World War, I always wondered about this view of things.
Google Ngrams shows New York passing in front of London in 1910.
London, Paris, New York (English)
I’ve not mentioned Paris which lags behind London for the whole period. But then it is in English. How do the Germans see the world?