January 2011
7 posts
Sailing
I’ve surfed, body boarded, kayaked and fished out in the ocean, but I’ve never been sailing, or even on a sail boat. I’ve always wanted to learn how to sail. There’s something so romantically American about sailing. Sailing conjures up images of the Kennedy family laughing on the deck of the family yacht, or of John and Jackie lazily drifting in the waters of Hyannis...
Damn winter quarter...
for cutting into my recreational reading time.
therefore tonight I am going to finish “This Side of Paradise” and start “The Count of Monte Cristo”
What the Internet is doing to our brains By... →
ariezee:
“I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy...