Another Somewhat Close Mate Call With a Black Swan

Dedicated to Mak, who, despite possessing full sobriety and maximum wakefulness, had a brief run-in with a stray:No, no, I wasn't there, but he drove out of my driveway approximately ten minutes prior. The details were related considerably later, when I felt like turning my cell phone on after a week or so. Luckily, he didn't disturb my easy going evening. Or my following day. And so on.


Highly recommend the latest Long Now Seminar on Long-term Thinking. The speaker is the highly controversial Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Give it a go. It's academia except you can turn it off.


And one more plug for the comic workshop:

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been experimenting with ambient-induced creative modes. currently listening to the freakiest lone astronaut dead floating rock inspecting mission ambient station. it's dubbed 'drone zone' from SomaFM. occasional 'voice transmissions' are received. 'groove salad' can't fully fulfill the luscious promise of its name.

truly great podcast listening over at the Long Now Foundation, especially the will wright and brian eno talk about generative art. Ah, spore.




my sis came from japan for a three days-- 12 hour flight times two to attend a wedding-- and i completely forgot. i meant to send her this drawing, but i never did... i'll whip up something new for her soon.