Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
A couple of weeks ago I travelled for work. One evening I found myself in the lobby of the hotel reading a free copy of USA Today left on a chair. I started thinking how rarely I read a true paper copy of a newspaper nowadays. Flipping through the pages of the newspaper, I...
ยป Visit the 2006 Google Census Page . In January, I wrote a post on Google Earth in which I complained about the eerie lack of people on the virtual planet. Since then I have been alerted of human sightings on Google Earth. Derek first noticed people in Saint Peter’s Square and...
Yesterday I had a few more thoughts about the iPod-induced state of bliss that I described earlier. I was listening to music in my car while driving to work (I got a Monster iCar tuner, which seems to work quite well with my iPod) when I realized that I was really enjoying my morning...
Happiness comes in many different flavors and varieties. Moments of happiness can catch us at home, at work, in the street, or by unexpected encounters with beauty. We can be captured by happiness when we are in a crowd, during a relaxed evening with a few friends, in a moment of connection with one...
I learned from Derek at PenMachine that Google finally released the Mac version of Google Earth, so I downloaded it and played with it for a while last night. OMG! I visited Katy in California (I could even see her old red car parked outside the garage), the Google Campus in Mountain View, looked...
I spent hours last night looking for old Italian songs on iTunes. I was stunned to discover lots of albums from the 70’s and 80’s that I used to listen to and love when I was in high-school and college. And I am not talking about the main stream italian pop (although I Pooh...