Tyndareus Crushed, by Igor Mitoraj (taken August 2005)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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🦋 The Border

Via bldgblog (thanks for the link, Doug!), two magnificent slideshows of David Taylor's photography from the border between the United States and Mexico.

posted morning of Sunday, August 8th, 2010
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Stunning. thanks for these!

posted afternoon of August 8th, 2010 by George

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➪	At Slacktivist, Fred Clark reprints an open letter from Jourdan Anderson to his erstwhile owner, which ran in the NY Daily Tribune of August 22nd, 1865.

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