Joshua Reynolds: “A great part of every man’s life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius. Invention… is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing…”
…and now there’s a hurricane heading for Iceland. I mean, why the heck not?
A little more naturalistic this time. Also an odd size (6”x11”) for which I don’t have a frame at hand.
Color me a wet blanket, but I just don’t think that Bull Durham needs to be a musical. Nor Back to the Future, for that matter.
A marbled orb weaver, I believe. I crashed through this little guy’s web Monday morning and spent several seconds trying to get him, and the last strand he clung to, off my arm and onto the ground without crushing him. It has to be disconcerting, if you are a spider.
Nicholas Carr on Apple Rewrite: “So, if I’m getting this right, you’d use Professional mode any time you want to sound like you have a stick up your ass.”
This week’s Positivity in Pedantry Award goes to Andrew Roberts for his correct use of the verb “eke,” observing in a book review that the author “is particularly good at eking out (her subjects’) back stories.” Our heartiest thanks and congratulations!