The government turned us down last minute from going to see Mt. Everest. But I got this cool view from 15,300 ft including a glacier and a yak.

The government turned us down last minute from going to see Mt. Everest. But I got this cool view from 15,300 ft including a glacier and a yak.

The beginning of the Himalayas.

The beginning of the Himalayas.

Ethics Class

Philosophy teacher:

If you are going to a party and you have to do something, smoke a joint over getting drunk.  I don’t want you to do anything illegal, but if you’re underage drinking is illegal anyway.  Don’t do meth though.

Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, bet it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

David Foster Wallace, This is Water (via thebardofavon)

Some studies estimate the Internet will be producing 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases by 2020.

What?  Did not expect that.

This book I would like to read yet I am afraid to start reading books on my Kindle.  Rational fear I think.

This book I would like to read yet I am afraid to start reading books on my Kindle.  Rational fear I think.

This was a picture taken in Egypt a few months ago of Egyptian Christians protecting praying Muslims.  I wish more of this happened in the world.

This was a picture taken in Egypt a few months ago of Egyptian Christians protecting praying Muslims.  I wish more of this happened in the world.

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I’m liking my luck with finding music lately.  The Decemberists are deceptively good.