This is also basically how everyone used the internet 20 years ago
You’d end up on some guy’s website about Civil War cannons, click his links page, discover a county historical society, then spend 40 minutes reading a forum for antique tractor owners
“What sort of website is this?” was half the experience
We called it surfing for a reason, now you open the same 4 apps every day
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it late at nigh, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic.
#Writing#Living#Creativity#RayBradbury#Book
It's the eve of Michaelmas, the great feast of St Michael and All Angels - an invocation of the powers of light as the year turns towards the darker days of autumn. Here's a thread on Michaelmas daisies, geese, moons, and other traditional namesakes of the angels' feast.
@firesidemets I’m old enough to remember when the Mets would go literal years between grand slams. Part of that was the Great Wall of Flushing days, but not entirely…
- gotta sleep now
- thx for the prayers
- gratitude for Nurse Loven, and for a great chemo team (and for morphine, obv.)
- gemzar & abraxane: work yer poisonmagic. Let’s kick some tumor arse
"The greatest joy you'll have in life is elevating everyone else around you - that's what leadership is. It's not about what height can I get to, it's about can I get down on my hands and knees and you stand on my back to get to your next level of greatness"
- Andy Green
There is much talk at the moment of ‘preparedness’. I am happy to tell you that I have fuel for two days, food for a week and reading matter for 243 years.
"I just said to them the bright lights next year will reveal the work that they did or didn't do in the shadows of the offseason"
Andy Green on the message to the Mets players earlier today when it was announced he'd been hired as Mets manager
'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being'
John 1: 1-3
The first U.S. “Space Shuttle,” called “Enterprise” after the television series Star Trek, is rolled out of a hangar at Palmdale, California for its first display.
NASA was originally going to call the craft “Constitution,” but President Ford personally insisted that it be called “Enterprise.”