For the three people who still view this blog once a year, I want to let you know that I will be giving an hour-long presentation on my 1999 AT thru-hike on Saturday, August 14 at Old Alabama Town in Montgomery. I’ll be doing a slideshow and telling some stretchers. Come on down to the Loeb Center at 301 Columbus Street at noon. Refreshments provided.
must read
Hell yes. They’re finally going to release Mark Twain’s personal papers, which he expressly forbade anyone to do until he’d been dead 100 years.
moment in momentum
Clark Little takes some wonderful photography. Check out the gallery.
you should see the other guy
On Thursday Connor got in a fight with a tall heavy barstool, and the barstool won, barely. Apparently they don’t like being scaled by small boys.
quote of the day
To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals, or to quit halfterm, and by opposing, rake in speaking fees
More Palin nonsense, via normative.
leave no tarball undocumented
BP has a new page with several live feeds from their ROVs. Fascinating.
Thanks pinkfud. 
your task is to be good eagle’s food
Adam Savage tells it like it is in a speech delivered to the Harvard Humanist Society, April 2010.
If Daniel Dennett is right— that there’s a human genetic need for religion— then I’d like to imagine that my atheism is proof of evolutionary biology in action.
classic
From this great 2008 article by Steve Martin on his comedy career:
At the end of my closing-night show at the Troubadour, I stood onstage and took out five bananas. I peeled them, put one on my head, one in each pocket and squeezed one in each hand. Then I read the last line of my latest bad review: “Sharing the bill with Poco this week is comedian Steve Martin…his 25-minute routine failed to establish any comic identity that would make the audience remember him or the material.” Then I walked off the stage.
