K2SO and Me

K2SO and Me

Not to wade too deep into the Star Wars fan wars, I'd just say K2SO from Rogue One was one of my favorite characters. Stumbled upon this cool life sized replica the other day. Like Jyn Erso I was...

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Words to Live By: Stanley Kubrick on Finding Meaning

Words to Live By: Stanley Kubrick on Finding Meaning

Full Quote: "The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of...

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Words to Live by: Seneca on Ideas

Words to Live by: Seneca on Ideas

The best ideas are common property.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Words to Live by: Eero Saarinen on Architecture

Words to Live by: Eero Saarinen on Architecture

“Architecture is like a marvelous three-dimensional chess game. Every move or decision affects every other move or decision.”- Eero Saarinen - quoted in An Architecture of Multiplicity by Antonio Roman Photo via the Library of Congress in the Balthazar Korab...

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Words to Live By: Avi Loeb

Words to Live By: Avi Loeb

“We have traditionally struggled with awe. Over centuries, our civilization has invented means, from myths to the scientific method, to make sense of things that inspire awe in us. And with the passage of time, many such things moved...

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Words to Live By: Penn Jillette

Words to Live By: Penn Jillette

"Luck is statistics taken personally" - Penn Jillette Quote found in the book Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson

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Update: No More Communists

Update: No More Communists

Quick update on a recent post. The hammer and sickle has been removed. Painted over and now tagged with something more prosaic and less proletarian.

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Creepy Liminal Hallway

Creepy Liminal Hallway

Underneath NE Pacific Street is a creepy liminal tunnel. It connects the University of Washington Montlake Medical Center to the underground parking garage, and it is somewhat creepy. Go check it out see if you agree. A threshold from...

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