The Adieu Haiku It’s been rewarding. The future? I do not know. But for now…–30– Peter King’s Lineup 10Freezing Idiotic Takes 2040-for-40 30Numbers Game 40King of the Road Newman! 10 Things I Think I Think
Strange, such prejudice from a writer, because engineering has been described (by the engineer Ove Arup) as "a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice".Bayley, Stephen
It may have been an invention of the Chaldeans of ancient Babylonia; specimens from Egypt date from the 14th century bc. The Romans invented a clepsydra consisting
Many of my most treasured childhood memories involve Koi Goo, an incredible woman who lived with my grandparents for over 50 years. She is one of the best chefs I know and learned everything through trial and error. She was hired as a maid when my eldest uncle was born and stayed on t...
the fundamental urban design concept, like how an alphabet invented in the Sinai by a handful of literate turquoise miners became the conceptual model for nearly all the world’s alphabets thereafter. Thus was the urban design deliberately laid out by the planners of Ur over five thousand years...
One of my goals in purchasing sethholloway.com is to carve out my own niche on the Internet superhighway–the series of tubes invented by a politician from Tin-uh-see. However, as I google myself (which is even dirtier than it sounds) I can’t help but feel that my job is not yet...
The first lady of Canadian Rock mastered the art of painting incredibly visual pictures with her lyrics complemented with bizarre hypnotic guitar tunings she invented herself along her musical journey. Love from her Wild Things Run Free LP in 1982 finds Joni wiser to the ways of the world looki...
Other late-modern masters bent and waved mirrored glass and invented new typologies from steel and aluminum. "It was truly the merger of art and science," Thom says of the genre's best work. In all, Thom worked for more than 50 years, documenting upward of 2,800 projects. His archives...
In practice, aircraft got a lot quieter and radar was invented which was far more effective. Now they sit, covered in moss as brutal monoliths in a forgotten sculpture park. I hate that the site is not really open to the public or accessible without getting wet and gross, except for a ...
Before I had my plan set last year, when I saw how travelling bit by bit became easier after the vaccine was invented, I told Ruli that I would be going soon. Then, when he was still alive, he told me that he missed me, asking me when would I fly home. We had this place in...