Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
– Stephen Hawking
Author: Nitesh Gautam
On testing waters
I wouldn’t even say we’re dipping our toes in the water, I’d say we’re looking at the water and trying to make that decision.
Mnemonic
I forgot the prairie because it stood
so still. I forgot the clouds because
they were always moving. I forgot
the taste of water because it lay quietly
inside the taste of everything.
I forgot a childhood when it disappeared
through a hole in itself. Later, mushrooms
emerged from the damp soil.
The way to keep something is to forget it.
Then it goes to an enormous place.
Grass grows to the horizon like hair.
In the sky the clouds go on naming
and unnaming themselves.
– Jenny George
Source: Mnemonic – Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
The Google Cemetery – Dead Google products
The Hell Ultra
Everyone who starts the race has to get to the first cutoff at 71 miles in 22 hours. There are two more cutoffs before the finish, which runners have to reach in a minimum of exactly five days. That’s about 60 miles per day, a pace that requires stuffing peanut butter sandwiches in your face on the move and sleeping just enough to prevent yourself from zonking out mid-stride in the middle of the road, which happens.
To Win An Ultramarathon Through Hell, You Need A Devil To Chase