Alana Taylor

Inspiration for my new apt.

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:33:47 -0500

Inspiration for my new apt.

nickelsonwooster: Chesterfield. Unfortunately my new apartment...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:58:07 -0500

nickelsonwooster:

Chesterfield.

Unfortunately my new apartment is not this big, but I will be painting the walls this color.

You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:59:26 -0500

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Malandragem: You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.

- Aaron Freeman

Beautiful

Vacheron Constantin watch. Lovely, but expensive (over $50,000).

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:35:37 -0500

Vacheron Constantin watch. Lovely, but expensive (over $50,000).

Perfect for my new apartment. (Yeah I just got my own little...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:34:50 -0500

Perfect for my new apartment. (Yeah I just got my own little studio in NYC). No more roommate-ing it around!

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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:33:57 -0500

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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:04:21 -0500

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:27:20 -0500

whiskeysoaked: Panchoran Retreat Ubud, Bali

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:26:07 -0500

whiskeysoaked:

Panchoran Retreat Ubud, Bali

nickelsonwooster: Fuck. Tommy!!

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:13:34 -0500

nickelsonwooster:

Fuck.

Tommy!!

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:12:53 -0500

Stingray Blues (by tvDAVEpgh)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:12:20 -0500

Stingray Blues (by tvDAVEpgh)

Rouco (by Jorge Lens)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:11:15 -0500

Rouco (by Jorge Lens)

Calypso Trading Co.

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:01:12 -0500

Calypso Trading Co.

VILA - Fall 2011

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:00:23 -0500

VILA - Fall 2011

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Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:57:30 -0500

marvelette: 1954, New York, NY by Vivian Maier

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:19:07 -0500

marvelette:

1954, New York, NY

by Vivian Maier

Here is an old photo of Union Square, NYC in 1893. It looks west...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:09:36 -0500

Here is an old photo of Union Square, NYC in 1893. It looks west at the south end of Fourth Avenue and East 14th Street.

“This photo was probably taken on an early Sunday morning, for on 14th Street—a popular and important shopping center—stores are closed, there is little traffic, and only a few pedestrians are evident,” reads the caption.

At right is the equestrian statue of George Washington; farther back is one of Lafayette. On the southwest corner of Broadway and 14th Street is the Domestic Sewing Machine Building. On the northwest corner of 14th and University is the nine-story Lincoln Building, from 1885.

"Beyond the universe there is nothing and within the universe the supernatural does not and cannot..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:22:17 -0500

“Beyond the universe there is nothing and within the universe the supernatural does not and cannot exist. Of all deceivers who have plagued mankind, none are so deeply ruinous to human happiness as those impostors who pretend to lead by a light above nature. Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teachings, and most of these teachings have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her dogmas, and most of these dogmas have been false.”

- Inscription on the epitaph of George P. Spencer of Lyndon Center, Vermont. Died in 1908 at age 83.

Sad French Bulldog Listens to Adele (by TheRoccoChannel) I feel...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:04:57 -0500

Sad French Bulldog Listens to Adele (by TheRoccoChannel)

I feel like this dog “gets” me.