Moneydick: archive

For new Photos click hereI know I’ve been falling behind on updates and picture posts especially, but today I put up about a 100 megs of photos into my image dump and I have some hours to sort out the next few weeks while entertaining the dwindling few who check this site for what they [...]

The hostel I’m at has free internet, so I figure I’d take a breather and compile some travel log-type things:
I have been backpacking around Europe since September 19th, though definitely not nonstop. Here’s a list of the cities I’ve sacked and how I’ve done gotten thereplace
American Airlines to London, England
Megabus to
Brighton, England
Megabus to Leeds, Train [...]

Apparently I look like this guy. Magnus Norman, a Swedish tennis star… I was putting on my shoes and a wide-eyed man started speaking to me in Swedish. I said ‘Sorry, English?’ and he said he thought I was someone else, a Tennis player named Magnus Norman, and he had only asked me what I [...]

Rainy and grey, but modern and funny. They speak like hiccuping Rabbits but the Swedes are a great group of folks.
Just finished my first day in Sveska, and I really like it! Very mysterious and awes??me. It’s as if all those early years of war and pillage brought the civilization to a pinnacle that helped [...]

I’m in Dublin now typing furiously on a 1euro/60min stuck-keyed terminal in a sketchy ‘low-cost international phone call/Internet’ shop. It’s 4:24p, and I’m ready for a nap after long hours of sniffing the paint of Italian Masters… my second visit to the Ireland National gallery on my second visit.
I arrived the 13th and walked to [...]

Connect the DotsBy Annalee Newitz, AlterNet
Posted on September 7, 2005, Printed on October 6, 2005

For years, governments all over the world have secretly been collaborating with the high-end color laser printer industry in order to track the origin of every color copy made. They’re doing it by programming the printers to create specific patterns of [...]

To see the entire gallery, click here. Click on Edinburgh, or take a stroll through the other cities.
You can also see photos I’ve put up on Flickr here.
And I’ve uploaded all my videos to Youtube here.
Mysterious Berries (rose hips, by George) at the Peak of Arthur’s Seat above Edinburgh
The Crags, just north of Arthur’s Peak
On [...]

The sky is an eery shade of blue, and the rain just started coming down here in Edinburgh. It’s unusually warm for this late in the afternoon, and a steady breeze is coming in through my window that looks out onto the courtyard. Because of a very late night I slept until about noon today, [...]