A bit of rambling, images with less than a thousand words adding to the half-thoughts, half-stories and half-conversations.

Rebecca Willis in Sailing on Dry Land, citing Meriweather Lewis about a portage in Montana:

… the winds are sometimes so strong in these plains that the men informed me that they hoisted a sail in the canoe and it had driven her along on the truck wheels. This is really sailing on dry land.

Chasing the Night, Sofia, Bulgaria

Intellectual loneliness is worse than social loneliness. (Twitter)

In Between, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey

Blind Taste / Robin Goldstein, More on bicycle prices: but what about the common people?

The more we look at the marketing strategies adopted by the modern manufacturers of luxury goods like wine, automobiles, and even five-bladed razors, the more we see the manipulation of social norms substituting for real product development, and the more we see companies’ cost bases shift toward advertising and away from R&D.

(via Diana Kimball)

Open, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Jeff Lindsay, in a comment on Mark Cuban’s post The Internet is about to change:

Realtime is just a side effect of event-driven systems.

Staring, Ortakoy Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Current reading material: books about change, uncertainty, uneasiness (and lots of web geekery). Stories about the comforts of home simply wouldn’t be healthy.

Half Open Arms, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria

Everyone needs a mentor and a muse. (Twitter)

In and out, Istanbul, Turkey

Something I’m missing right now: baseball, the crack of the bat, the atmosphere of a minor league game. I’ve always wanted to spend a season working on a grounds crew at a baseball stadium. Universe, let’s make that happen next season.

Narrowed, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Lately I’ve found myself rationalizing situations and justifying decisions with the phrase “this won’t be the worst I’ve ever done / will ever do”. I’m not sure what to think about that.
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Directions, Sofia, Bulgaria

Directions: like knowledge, over-rated, under-valued.