http://estmithas.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Carpe-ing that diem. en Vox Thu, 08 May 2008 00:36:07 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/laughter-and-forgetting.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/laughter-and-forgetting.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/laughter-and-forgetting.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 08 May 2008 00:36:07 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00f48d14ae2b0001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00f48d14ae2b0001-50si" alt="Carving" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> "People have always aspired to an idyll, a garden where nightingales sing, a realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man nor man against other men, where the world and its people are molded from a single stock and... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/laughter-and-forgetting.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00f48cf5f1b70002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/godspeed.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/godspeed.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/godspeed.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:57:53 -0700 Godspeed You Black Emperor! - The Dead Flag Blues... What a harrowing piece of music. The narrator's initial monologue frightens. I don't worry about losing any veneer of masculinity, when I admit to being able to imagine some scenario in which... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/godspeed.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398ecbeb20005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/cal.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/cal.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/cal.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:28:35 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398db0ec30002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398db0ec30002-50si" alt="Super Tuesday" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> * Title shamelessly adopted from an Explosions in the Sky piece, "The Birth and Death of Day" NorCal's recent rapturous weather has stricken me speechless. I've spent large sums of time to lounging outside, not at all beholden to the vices of ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/cal.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d7ab040003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music poetry http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/anew.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/anew.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/anew.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:12:56 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d790d10002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d790d10002-50si" alt="Haas Pavilion" /></a> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d790d30002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d790d30002-50si" alt="Free Speech Monument" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 26 January 2008: Berkeley, California for the Stanford-Cal Basketball Game. Stanford prevails 82-77. Despite my Cardinal loyalties, I find myself smitten with Berkeley. The college itself has such exciting history (Mario Savio and the Free Spe... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/anew.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d7fe1b0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cal http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/this-explains-so-much.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/this-explains-so-much.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/this-explains-so-much.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:45 -0800 To better appreciate the transcendental genius of Simon and Garfunkel, read this New Yorker piece. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/this-explains-so-much.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d7f1ae0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/such-as.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/such-as.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/such-as.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:28:42 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d46eab0001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d46eab0001-50si" alt="CVMS" /></a> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d4717c0002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d4717c0002-50si" alt="Tahoe" /></a> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d47cd70001.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d47cd70001-50si" alt="Austin&#39;s Backyard" /></a> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d48d0f0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d48d0f0004-50si" alt="Tahoe Morning" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> A couple of beautiful places, beautiful days. One of these days my hands will stop their constant tremolo, and I will learn how to use my camera. Austin, TX Lake Tah... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/such-as.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398d486f20003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> tahoe austin http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/what-a-life.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/what-a-life.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/what-a-life.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:41:49 -0800 "Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing." [Norman Mailer] Laugh. Out loud. What a beautiful statement, regardless of its truth. My first insight into the wit and cynicism of the late Norman Mailer is a good one. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/what-a-life.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398bc67320004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/appeal-to-be-smitten-iii.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/appeal-to-be-smitten-iii.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/appeal-to-be-smitten-iii.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:45:53 -0800 "...these days I'm trying to find God everywhere, trying to figure out a little better this little thing he made called a man." [ Anis Mojgani, "For Those Who can still Ride in an Airplane for the First Time"* ] Clearly the obligatory en... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/appeal-to-be-smitten-iii.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00e398ba578e0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/coveting-excalibur.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/coveting-excalibur.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/coveting-excalibur.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:19:44 -0800 Remark: For the purposes of this exercise, Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone will be considered one and the same. See wikipedia for the distinction. End remark. I've thought long and hard for a satisfactory metaphor to describe, justify, cont... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/coveting-excalibur.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00cd9714a2224cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/blog-throwback.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Peter) http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/blog-throwback.html?_c=feed-rss http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/blog-throwback.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:23:27 -0800 I am reposting this brief post from an earlier blog, mainly because I like it but also since tonight, it feels at least tangentially important. Thursday, April 20 2006 Somewhere between 12:38 and 12:39 tonight as I navigated my browser past my h... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/blog-throwback.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e49061dbe2b00d4142229583c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>