*** UPDATE – Although I now live in Swiss Cottage, it’s fun to look back on this time when I was slumming in Old Street…The Old Street post continues below in its original and unedited format. *** This is the view out my window to some apartments and businesses across the way. Not much of … Continue reading
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Afghanistan/Iraqi Kurdistan Photos
Burning Man Pictures – 3
Part 2 I loved random shit like this… This guy plugged in and just started rocking out. Art Car. This is your dear editor playing with a flame thrower. Note the other two individuals in the picture recoiling from the blast. Part of a camp on the edge of the playa. Playa art projects. One … Continue reading
Peter Thiel *Updated*
I’ve updated this post by adding a recent profile from Forbes Magazine to the “comments” section… The original post follows below: ******** I’ve been surprised by how many emails I have received from people wanting to know more about Peter Thiel simply because I list him as someone I’d like to meet. So, I thought … Continue reading
Burning Man Pictures – Part 2
PART 1 With no trees or permanent structures for many, many miles in any direction, shade is at quite a premium in Black Rock City. Here Hans is recuperating in the meager amount of shade provided by Ian’s truck and my bike. Hanging out with the Hot Love Brigade. Hans and his sister, Uli. I … Continue reading
Burning Man 2008
PART 2 As we were driving up I-80, it was fun to speculate who was headed to Burning Man based on the type of vehicle a group was driving and the type of gear they were carrying. Once we turned on to Route 447, drove through the town of Nixon and started driving past Pyramid … Continue reading
Project Daedalus
A project to send a large ship to another star still fires the imagination (at least it should). By the low standards of today, it seems an impossible dream, yet just such a ship was seriously proposed on a cold night in London in 1973. Members of the British Interplanetary Society (B.I.S.) conducted the Space … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 