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Double Barrel Falls

There should be a roundup of the inventors who have created seemingly insignificant and innocent things, like stickers on fruit, whose impact is actually substantial and evil. How many productive hours worldwide have been wasted picking at stickers on fruit? How much cultural damage has been done by turning every apple, orange, and banana into [...]

Posted 07 February 2012 † mGlier § All New Zealand Posts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

A Change in the Relationship

I had a crush on Mt. Alfred. Viewed from the lagoon at the north end of Glenorchy, NZ, Mt. Alfred is a self-satisfied thing, its confidence rooted in geometry. The mountain is an isosceles triangle, the left slope equal to the right, and its base exactly twice its height. But the mountain is not stolid; [...]

Posted 29 January 2012 † mGlier § All New Zealand Posts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,