A couple images from one of my projects is being used in the promotional material for a student directed seminar at UBC called SCIENCE FICTION & THE CITY. Buckminster Fuller, Donna Haraway, Jorge Luis Borges!! Check out the wiki for description and some links to very good resources. wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/sciencefictionandthecity

Unrelated: never be a neglectful snail farmer or suddenly you will end up with forty more and no place for the eighty-something gremlins eating all your cucumbers.

Falling space rocks are spectacular. I wanted to gather a caravan to hunt for impact site(s) of the meteor that was all over the news but people just aren’t as into it I guess. Watch videos: 1 and 2

In case it isn’t obvious, I like lists. So here’s a list of some delightful bird names:

Hoary Redpoll, Marbled Godwit, Lapland Longspur, Loggerhead Shrike, Boat-tailed Grackle, Red-shafted Flicker, Goatsucker, Bobolink, Ooaa

Which has distracted me from finalizing the list of trees to include in an illustrated encyclopedia of trees…which is also a distraction from writing cover letters, as such is a least favorite task in the list of unfavourable tasks.

Pillow talk: geothermal pipes, photovoltaic cells, and wind turbines. Spent most of the other night canoodling with them. I suggest people read up as I rather not flood forth an affectionate display of information. It is interesting both technically and for the one-thousand-and-one reasons there is need for improved methods to stay lit, warm, clean, turned on, etc.

huh-bich-oo-ey: scaphander. buttermuscles. sandpipers. polpettone. triceratops. geschichte, des erotischen. alphonsine de tennancourt. colour me badd little lion. don’t forget the carrots.

He smelled of old books:
“You are a touch odourous with The William Hobday Collection of Confederate Military History.” And, “what a fine bouquet of Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note.”

Ate a three-yolk egg and found three fortunes in one cookie that read as follows:

1. “Look ahead to a new beginning.”
2. “You will soon be traveling to a distant land.”
3. “Your sports team will be very successful this year.”

All such relevant predictions. Multiple yolks are common in young chickens and the massive eggs were delivered to our house by a local farmer. Three yolks are considered good luck. Tasty luck.

Scouted a new apartment. Found a perfect little suite for December but am considering staying-put until more decisions are made on some surprising opportunities appearing in “distant lands.” However, the details shall remain a mystery. Wouldn’t want to jinx it and my sports team.