cool shit! also a poem
who has two thumbs and totally forgot her parents' anniversary is this thursday! (o_o)b and also >.< (i talked to my parents yesterday and my mom mentioned it. i did not thank her for reminding me.) in any case, i now have a card and tomorrow i will mail it.
love letters exchanged between two men during ww2 - only one side of the correspondence seems to have survived, but there are still several hundred letters, written at a time when discovery could've gotten both guys shot.
the world's first hair dye that changes color in reaction to changing temperatures. how cool is that? so cool.
fox!
(all of those are from ephemera, who brings the nifty.)
thanks to today's googledoodle, i now know today is the birthday of fazlur rahman khan, a structural engineer who figured out how to make skyscrapers taller. he designed the john hancock center and the sears willis (formerly sears) tower, both in chicago. (the sears tower took over from the world trade center as the tallest building in the world, and was then surpassed by the petronas towers in malaysia. i still can't think of it as the willis tower.) check out some nifty photos of some of his buildings.
and finally, today's poem, which i found last year when i was writing my bigbang.
We were all in love
but didn’t know it.
We were all in love
continually. Bless
our little hearts,
smoking and drinking
and wrecking things.
Bless our shameless shame.
We were loud, invincible.
We were tough as rails.
We stole street signs
and knocked over bins.
Ripped the boards
off boarded-up stuff.
Slept in towers
filled with pigeon shit
and fluff. We kicked
beer bottles down
cobbled lanes.
Tires and chains.
Chains and wheels
and skin. The world
was always ending
and we the inventors
of everything.
--Melissa Stein, "Anthem"
love letters exchanged between two men during ww2 - only one side of the correspondence seems to have survived, but there are still several hundred letters, written at a time when discovery could've gotten both guys shot.
the world's first hair dye that changes color in reaction to changing temperatures. how cool is that? so cool.
fox!
(all of those are from ephemera, who brings the nifty.)
thanks to today's googledoodle, i now know today is the birthday of fazlur rahman khan, a structural engineer who figured out how to make skyscrapers taller. he designed the john hancock center and the sears willis (formerly sears) tower, both in chicago. (the sears tower took over from the world trade center as the tallest building in the world, and was then surpassed by the petronas towers in malaysia. i still can't think of it as the willis tower.) check out some nifty photos of some of his buildings.
and finally, today's poem, which i found last year when i was writing my bigbang.
We were all in love
but didn’t know it.
We were all in love
continually. Bless
our little hearts,
smoking and drinking
and wrecking things.
Bless our shameless shame.
We were loud, invincible.
We were tough as rails.
We stole street signs
and knocked over bins.
Ripped the boards
off boarded-up stuff.
Slept in towers
filled with pigeon shit
and fluff. We kicked
beer bottles down
cobbled lanes.
Tires and chains.
Chains and wheels
and skin. The world
was always ending
and we the inventors
of everything.
--Melissa Stein, "Anthem"