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Re: On Packing Up On Moving On The Trip Up North

S. Miles — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:44:01 -0000

All you can do is be. And this moment, right now, is the sum total of every decision you have ever made through all these years. More or less, this is what we have thrown our lot with, this weighted moment.

It's easy to forget this sometimes.

Re: Death in San Francisco

Smiles — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:47:39 -0000

As one of the friends mentioned in this piece, I can attest the woman in question was something else and worth all the trouble imbued by the author. I can sympathize suffering an excess of energy engendered from such complicated emotions, but traversing the length of Golden Gate Park in the middle of the night? You are more intrepid than I.

Re: The Trip Overland Hacked via the Timthumb Vulnerability

Manny Santiago — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:13:44 -0000

Thanks MID...It's tough for me to drive with two hands when there's so much happening outside...

Re: The Trip Overland Hacked via the Timthumb Vulnerability

motionid — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:46:21 -0000

More the point, great photo!

Re: The Trip Overland Hacked via the Timthumb Vulnerability

Manny Santiago — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:01:37 -0000

Thanks, and you are correct about bad luck and possibly the handmade coding, but as you may well know, it's difficult to do all the coding while being outside to shoot, then scan, then upload, then edit, then...Listening to the Prairie Home Companion yesterday I heard a story about a writer who had nothing to write about because he spent all his time trying to write, rather than being out gaining experience to write about...Maybe a good balance is the best answer. So now I will put some security in place. Thanks again!

Re: The Trip Overland Hacked via the Timthumb Vulnerability

Longwei — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:37:22 -0000

good you are back, I would say this is just random bad luck...or the random price to pay for not using self made code...
by the way, last picture is great !

Re: Going Dutch in the Digital Age

Kamagra tablets — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:34:12 -0000

Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters Hackerspaces are the digital-age ... Dutch hacker and entrepreneur Rop Gonggrijp says the club is about "adapting to a ...

Re: Reimagining Shanghai

Kamagra — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:19:40 -0000

Wang shifts the bulk of the action to modern day Shanghai, with two
contemporary women replacing See's original characters. “It's probably more
re-imagining

Re: Riding the Dog – Across America by Greyhound Bus

Manny Santiago — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:59:42 -0000

Couchsurfing every city...that would, in a sense, have been a completely different trip, to say the least. A great one, but altogether a rarer monster. The mere suggestion that one would have to get off the bus and leave the station only to come back again--willingly--again and again, seems something Sisyphean. I'm not sure which is more gutsy.

Re: The Obligatory Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Experience

roy | roymarvelous.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:59:16 -0000

Sounds like something I should get next on my Kindle!

Re: Couchsurfing Beijing

roy | roymarvelous.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:35:18 -0000

Love the way you've written this Manny!

Re: Riding the Dog – Across America by Greyhound Bus

roy | roymarvelous.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:32:02 -0000

I took the greyhound from LA to New York non-stop, a few years ago. It was quite a trip but wished I stopped and Couchsurfed at every major city along the way.

Re: Couchsurfing Beijing

Mike — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:04:29 -0000

http://blog.thecheaproute.com/...
I never really thought of couch surfer as a way to do more than save money until I read this article this morning. It convinced me to try it, this is how I found your post, researching couch surfer. Now I realize the money savings arent nearly as important as the experiences it brings, and the doors it opens. The best part of travelling is when you get that local experience.

Re: The Obligatory Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Experience

Jon — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:38:59 -0000

it's 10:35 i've just come inside - it was getting sort of dark. we drank Talisker and tried to put the world to rights. life in the old country... yeah, i can see why this would work. last week i went to a whisky tasting, which was probably excellent, but who can remember such things?!

Bryson is the easy reading version of Brian Greene and Gordon Kane!

Re: The Obligatory Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Experience

Manny Santiago — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:08:36 -0000

ASHONE is a great read just for that (but I read the hard cover version and can't imagine lugging it around Germany without a proper place to call home. Bryson's writing demands a home, with a fire, and a chair, which may or may not rock, to sit next to it, and perhaps a dog on a rug and a tumbler of something glimmering in the flames as well. Get to it. There's no time!

Re: The Obligatory Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Experience

Manny Santiago — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:05:39 -0000

There is a place where you cannot stay, but can only rest as you slowly pass through to the other side. This place is not for any man, but for the wanderers, vagrants and the nomads.

Re: The Obligatory Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Experience

Jon — Wed, 11 May 2011 02:27:56 -0000

Funny that you should reference A Short History of Nearly Everything, it's what i'm currently reading... in very short pieces as staying awake in the evenings seems to be quite the challenge.

Re: The Obligatory Trans-Atlantic Container Ship Experience

Shannon — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:17:49 -0000

Nomandsland=No man's land ?

Re: Russia: Where Beards & Mail Order Brides Come From, Natch

Marshall Darvall — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:20:55 -0000

you write well

Re: Chasing the Great Khan Pt. 3 – Magical Mongolia Tour

Manny Santiago — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:18:35 -0000

Better late than never. Thanks!

Re: Books To Sail To

S. M. Lotman — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:25:51 -0000

This is a terrific reading list. I am of the mind that wherever one is traveling it is appropriate to engage in that civilization's opuses, i.e. "The God of Small Things" in Kerela or "Story of the Eye" in Andalucia. Unfortunately, many of a country's best works, especially those of a historical or anthropological bent are out of print and thus necessitate some careful Amazon.com preordering (and of course, some donkeyback carrying en route).

I am yet to read 2666, which seems at prima facie Infinite Jesterish. Have you noticed something conspiratorial at work in that two of the best-selling writers in the last few years are recently deceased foreigners-- Bolano and Steig Larsson? Must I change countries of citizenship and meet a mysterious, tragic fate to get anywhere in today's publishing world?!

Re: Books To Sail To

Manny Santiago — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:50:08 -0000

I knew it! I was just fondling my Infinite Jest the other day and your Bourne Trilogy beats the crap out of DFW's epic. I mean it could probably literally (literarily...?) beat the crap out of someone. But I digress. Just cracking open 2666 and halfway through the Joseph Campbell edited works of C.G. Jung...you should read "On Synchronicity" if you haven't already...hmmm I see what you mean about adding several kilograms to the list...I will end here, but as you say, we are far from finished. As you guys say, "Bon Voyage!"

Re: Books To Sail To

Hern42 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:34:52 -0000

Oh, just another comment... I *am* travelling at the moment with "Infinite Jest". It *is* a load.

Re: Books To Sail To

Hern42 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:33:01 -0000

Great selection ... Of course to comment would be to add several kilograms of paper to the list. I'll abstain, but this discussion is far from closed.

Re: Going Dutch in the Digital Age

Manny Santiago — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:21:00 -0000

Thanks for the props DAWG. If you would be so kind as to let me in on some good rocks-dropping sites, so I can better bang'em high, it would be appreciated!!!