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Black doesn't have enough, blue has too much.

Epigraph for a memoir

"There may well be a universe that does not revolve around me, but these pages are about the one that does."
— Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen, Roger Green

Perfect pairing - haiku and Unicode

http://www.unicode.org/conference/uni-haiku.html.

An entitled opinion

". . . people who don't read are acosmic, poor in worlds."
- from Robert Harrison's podcast monologue on The Man Without Qualities:

Phaistos Disk synchronicity

Yesterday I first heard of the Phaistos Disk (considered by some to be the earliest book) in a document designed to teach high school students about artists' books. Today while idly trying to display a random Unicode character in Google Docs - the kind that looks like this

if you don't have the right font installed - I came upon an enchanting set of glyphs from the Phaistos Disk. If only I could figure out how to display them on my computer. I installed the Code2001 font but no joy. Especially love the tattooed head which should look like this . . .

Duelling tree haikus

cj:
Long soft grass,
blue wood,
shadows.

mj:
Maple, linden, gingko
pine leaves
death.

– Morton Arboretum, 10/14/09, 2 pm

et al.

Per Wikipedia, stands for et alii and is masculine . . . "so it can be used for men, or groups of men and women; the feminine, et aliae (or et aliæ), is appropriate when the 'others' are all female. Et alia is neuter plural and thus properly used only for inanimate, genderless objects, but some use it as a gender-neutral alternative."

¶

Apparently this symbol is the pilcrow or alinea. Who knew? Peter Binkley, technology librarian at the University of Alberta, called "pilcrow" his favorite word of the week in a 2006 blog post. According to Wikipedia the term may come from the French pelagraphe, a corruption of paragraph.

Dashed

From graphology vs. typography, Valérie Madill's graduate project at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver.

So true

From Wikipedia:

The personal blog . . . is the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. Blogging can have a sentimental quality.

Catface Algebra

Not a band name. Two (rare) short stories with happy endings. "Catface" from Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford and "Algebra" from World's End by Paul Theroux.

Black & orange

A small bird gets the high ground

Another bird-on-dinosaur this morning. Not a gull - maybe a sparrow or starling? We'll have to start packing binoculars.

Something we all carry

". . . the common secret of cowardice barely contained."
- from The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien

Gull on skull

This morning there was a gull on the Brachiosaurus cast in front of the Field Museum, watching traffic go by. It was the twelfth BOD (bird on dinosaur) we've seen this summer during the morning trip down LSD.

The holy grail: to capture our own photo of this rare phenomenon. This (birdless) one is from scienceblogs.com, per Google Images.

My favorite stamp design [1966]

. . . referenced in
On Guerrilla Gardening
by Richard Reynolds.

The country priest receives some advice

Do little things, from day to day, while you wait.
Little things don't seem like much,
but they bring peace.
— Diary of a Country Priest, Robert Bresson

Milwaukee trip

A color haiku composed by mj at 4:30pm:

Orange nails
shredding white paper
in a turquoise garbage can

- Orange 2 nail polish, Urban Outfitters
- Wastepaper basket purchased at Moderneaire

Currently reading . . .

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson.

Old Banner

http://cooltext.com/Logos
Logo design --> Simple
Fonts --> Fun --> Anagram
Text color & Background color: 171 165 165

Pequod update

Tonight Matt added approximately 10 new planks to the decking.