qotd

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. — Christopher Isherwood (I wonder if any of you know what famous Broadway musical, later famous movie, was made from the book that this quote is from… answers in the comment section, pleeze!)

Daily miracles

From the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft’s camera. Named, of course, for Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini. But you didn’t need me to tell you that, right? That really big black stripe, I do believe, was even named after Cassini.

Madrid

Madrid is full of shopping, and some hustle and bustle, and the sidewalk cafés, but they are not the relaxed cafés of Barcelona. Too many people hurrying by. Not enough snack food that I find edible: too many baby squids in their own ink. I can appreciate a country without eating all its food, I Continue reading Madrid