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Weekend 361.1 (…my green, my fluent mundo)

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Winston Smith

(1) A quote from Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen, Jonathan Case, Damon Lindelof, and Brad Bird: “The cloaked Plus Ultra zeppelin, still visible in his alternate spectrums, hovered over the Continue Reading →

Posted in Books, Quotes, Technology, Weekend

Weekend 309.0

Posted on August 9, 2014 by

(1) Sturmey Archer “The Planetary Gearset” (YouTube) (2) Speed Traps For Japan’s Escalators (WSJ – Registration Required) (3) Shakespeare as a Life Coach (WSJ) “The world is grown so bad Continue Reading →

Posted in Cycling, Japan, Quotes, Railroads, Technology, Weekend

Thanksgiving Weekend 2013 (ISON Edition)

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Winston Smith

This is a close approximation! (1) Eastern and Western attitudes about life explained in 18 simple infographics Credit: Felicia (2) Drivers Get Rolled: Bicyclists are making unreasonable claims to the Continue Reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cycling, Playmobil, Soccer, Technology, Toys

Weekend 274.0 (Baskets Encouraged)

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Winston Smith

Finished A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line by John O’Farrell and The 32 Stops by Danny Dorling. The latter is a clever work using facts to provide Continue Reading →

Posted in Airports, Books, Cycling, Design, England, Flowers, London, Photography, Poetry, Railroads, Technology, Weekend

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"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."
SENECA

"If you get lost through loving yourself, you get found in denying yourself."
ST. AUGUSTINE

"No soul is set free until it has had the courage to break with its attachments."
A CARTHUSIAN

"They make a wilderness and they call it peace."
CALGACUS

"For our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust."
CASSIUS DIO

"A rotten structure crumbles when kicked, institutions embodying ideas whose time has passed can be dissolved with impunity."
EAMON DUFFY

"Man is Born Free, and is Everywhere in Trains."
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