the yin and yang of gerry lopez
surfing is style, and the epitome of style is Gerry Lopez dropping on a massive wave at Pipeline while impassively scratching his nose.
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prayer (kavafis)
the sea engulfed a sailor in its depths. Unaware, his mother goes and lights a tall candle before the ikon of our Lady
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a quote from Hitch
this quote from Christopher Hitchens resurfaced today (thanks to readwise). What an elegant way to sum up one's moral compass.
switched from wordpress to ghost
i've been looking for speed and a clean-looking theme. Have not had luck with Wordpress (I think mostly for not knowing where to look).
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the best solo of all time
for the untrained ear, for the diletante music enthusiast, it sounds arbitrary and subjective to claim that there is such a thing as the best rock guitar solo of all time.
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silent solo hiking - normark, adams, hoek
the history of the silent solo hiking film (SSH) is rather short. Not even five years old. Yet, with the ascent of Harmen Hoek, have we reached the pinnacle already?
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more selfish gene
but if we reorient our view from the survival machine's to that of the gene, then it makes perfect sense that some molecules do not code for anything.
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little corner of the internet
blogging is owning your little corner of the internet. Owning your content, your domain name, the aesthetics of your website, the freedom to tinker with the front-end and back-end, and much more.
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silvio y oda a mi generación
i’m in awe of young poets that write verse that can only be comprehended later in life. I know it is an illusion: it is man who attributes meaning
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the original banana republic
vanity sometimes makes you stumble upon beautiful things.
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the journey to ithaka
give it first to Homer and then, 2600 years later, to Kavafis and you get something that rises above all of us.
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ditching evernote
it’s been 2,123 days since I created my first note in Evernote on January 5, 2017. It’s served me well, taking practically everything I threw to it
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