» August 31, 2007

1654% profit

Oh how things change when you do a little research.

(Let’s see if the buyer actually pays up, though.)

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» August 15, 2007

Worst vacation ever, or “we came all this way, you’re getting in the damned pool.”

Thankfully not my vacation, but if you had the fortune of being at Tokyo Summerland this week (or the misfortune of being in the pool at Tokyo Summerland this week) you might’ve witnessed this amazing feat of… well, see for yourself:

In Jacob Diamond’s Collapse, the anthropologist/author discusses the folly of the Easter Islanders cutting down all their trees, causing a massive ecological disaster because they could no longer make fishing boats from the wood. “What was the person cutting down the last tree thinking,” he wondered.

I’d like to ask the last person to get into that wave pool what they were thinking.

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» August 23, 2006

Tablet style!

A handwritten note.

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