Words to Live by Juvenal

Words to Live by Juvenal

Memento mori, no matter our ambitions, death equalizes all as Juvenal reminds is in Satire book IV. Originally heard the quote in the great Daily Stoic video: "21 Stoic Quotes to Live Your Life By" from the ever...

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A Terrible Rummikub Draw

A Terrible Rummikub Draw

I love games. I love playing games. I particularly enjoy Rummikub. A delightful mix of colorful numbers, deceptively simple strategy, and a fair ammount of luck. Be that as it may, this has to be one of the worst draws...

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Georgetown Steam Plant Virtual Tour

Georgetown Steam Plant Virtual Tour

This is pretty cool you can virtually tour the historic Georgetown Steam Plant! They used to have regular tours, but they've been curtailed for now, but hopefully soon they'll start up again. This is a really fun alternative! Well...

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Tugs on the Dock

Tugs on the Dock

Saw a couple of tugs on the Seattle waterfront and it seemed rather picturesque. Love the lines on the dock.

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Random photo

Random photo

Here's a photo I took a few years ago, pre-pandemic naturally. It was at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in part of the newly renovated area Concourse N, formerly known as the North Satellite. I loved the colors, I thought Alaska...

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Hitting the button on accident

Hitting the button on accident

I wonder how many gigabytes, nay, terabytes of data are used with pictures like this one, accidentally hitting the button on one's phones. A random crappy shot I found, nice soft background though...

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Words to Live by Ingmar Bergman

Reality is perhaps not all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing."Ingmar Bergman

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ONE Containers Spotted in the Wild

ONE Containers Spotted in the Wild

In 2017 three Japanese shipping Lines, Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, and K Line, jointly founded the One Shipping Network or ONE Shipping Line. Since then, I've loved their branding, the use of strong typography and magenta,...

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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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