"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."

— Cicero

(Source: cs.virginia.edu)

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California’s Mountain Pass Mine from NASA Earth Observatory.

'Connie' spy plane leaves Camarillo Airport for new home →

Photo by Chuck Kirman from the Ventura County Star article.

Sorry to see her go.

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Date: April 1926
Description: NORGE POLAR FLIGHT
Details:
The ‘Norge’ airship, hired from Italy by Amundsen, at the start of its flight over the North Pole. From Spitzbergen it made a 17-hour flight to Alaska.
Source: unnamed photographer
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"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood."

— General George S. Patton

(Source: cs.virginia.edu)

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Dismissed from his job as a draftsman with the U.S. Coast Survey on January 9, 1855, after only two months, influential 19th-century artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler completed this etching “Sketch of Anacapa Island” during his brief federal service.

“Sketch of Anacapa Island,” 1854; Records of the Coast And Geodetic Survey

(via fuckyeahcartography)

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Yesterday’s walk: 0:34 1.75 mi … a modest start but a start none the less.

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Frontpiece from The Art of Angling, Richard Brookes, 7th Edition, 1790.

"Arrive without travelling,
See all without looking,
Do all without doing."

—

George Harrison

Wildwood Dancing Tree

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

(Source: cs.virginia.edu)

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Keystone-Loening K-84 “Commuter”, circa 1930 (via)

Steve Jobs’ vision of the world in 46 seconds.

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Golden Mac

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Golden Fall