Library / Payatas

January 29th, 2007Blog4 comments

I spent yesterday afternoon in Powell Library writing. It’s nice to be surrounded by books while you work. Makes you feel like a wizard surrounded by dusty tomes or a hunter surrounded by taxidermied deer heads.

The next project is about to begin. I usually select a work place for a project and stick with it, heading there diligently until the work is done. For the last one I was at Powell, but for this next one I’m going to switch to someplace else. Maybe URL?

The location has nothing to do with the project. It just has to be quiet, have power, and preferably be open until late.

Via Harpers: The Magic Mountain: Trickle-down economics in a Philippine garbage dump

This article must be read, especially by people who bitch and moan about their cushy American existence. You can’t find anything good on TV? CostCo is out of Twinkies? Well my friend, there are people who live in a fucking garbage dump, nutritionally stunted, and have been smothered to death in landslides of trash when the heap has collapsed. You got 99 problems but being flattened by garbage ain’t one.

Mike Judge wasn’t making things up when he came up with The Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505. Sadly enough, it was based on historical events.