No maps for these territories

This is one of the most wonderful entries that I have ever stumbled across on Wikipedia.

The only thing I’ve figured out for sure is that there’s too much to do; but I don’t want this night to end – me, my cousin on the phone, some casual editing, some movies, rain outside. It was pouring earlier, heavy fauceting from the gutters, and the radio was actually interrupted by an Emergency [...]

Overheard in the Salt Lake City airport: “Dude, my girlfriend, is like, soooo pregnant.” —– It is amazing to me how easy it is; how with a certain measure of petroleum and steel (but really just the former; it powering mining, construction, manufacturing, transportation of everything from one place to the next) things like being [...]

History and future of flying automobiles Stiles, Palmer C. (Florida Inst of Technology) Source: SAE Technical Paper Series, 1992, p 1-7 ISSN: 0148-7191 CODEN: STPSDN Conference: Future Transportation Technology Conference and Exposition, Aug 10-13 1992, Costa Mesa, CA, USA Publisher: Publ by SAE Abstract: The paper discusses the following themes: the dream of the flying [...]

This is such an awesome site! er, reference work! er, site! Whatever it is, it’s awesome! And now with comments!

Found while looking for a particular small screwdriver: – a mix cd of feminist songs that I made years ago, dedicated to ‘napster’ – about a decade’s worth of left-over jewelry inventory, parts, beads, and half-finished projects – *my* jewelry, that is, the stuff that I sometimes wear myself. This is good as I couldn’t [...]

Just taking a minute out to make an observation, to share a bittersweet sensation… I went looking for something in my old email account just now, one that is archived but I don’t use anymore. I was looking for a paper that I knew was sent to me last fall sometime, so I sorted and [...]