Category Archives: Urban

25-Unit

Cosmic Influence

Jay Anderson (JAN 2024) of Project Unity

You will see change taking place no matter where you look.

Think of it as a mind expanding message from the stars, maybe not the work of human beings.

Note: On the X platform you can change the playback speed from one quarter to twice as fast.

22-Anic

Far Out

Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster (February 2018)
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide
    to the Galaxy – 1979
     
  • The Restaurant
    at the End of the Universe – 1980
     
  • Life, the Universe
    and Everything – 1982
     
  • So Long, and Thanks
    for All the Fish – 1984
     
  • Mostly Harmless – 1992

The Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams follows the adventures of the last surviving man, Arthur Dent, after the demolition of the Earth by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

Arthur Dent is rescued from destruction on Earth by escaping, ironically, on a passing Vogon spacecraft with Ford Prefect, a human-like alien writer for the namesake electronic travel guide.

He explores the galaxy with Prefect and eventually encounters another human, Trillian, a beautiful woman who had also escaped Earth in the nick of time.

Other characters include the two-headed President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and a depressed and paranoid android robot, Marvin.

MOSTLY HARMLESS

Update April 22, 2023: Back to Bizarro Land, again. I had been told to exercise (not walk in dark until I dropped); more precisely: do yoga. continue

20-Mort

School

Redhead in Edinburgh, Morning (2012) by G.Garchar

Long ago, during the last age of reason, certain proud thinkers had claimed that valid knowledge was indestructible – that ideas were deathless and truth immortal.

But that was true only in the subtlest sense, and not superficially true at all.

There was objective meaning in the world, to be sure: the non-moral logos or design of the Creator; but such meanings were God’s and not Man’s, until they found an imperfect incarnation, a dark reflection, within the mind & speech & culture of a given human society, which might ascribe values to the meanings so that they became valid in a human sense within the culture.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter Miller

19-Nose

Summertime

View from front yard of Willow Glen Community Center

It is a long time since my last visit,” said Dumbledore, peering down his crooked nose at Uncle Vernon. “I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K.Rowling

11-Farm

Journey

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head, To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired.”

Shakespeare, in the opening of Sonnet 27