Journal.

fragments of quiet intelligence

There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.

Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...

Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not

been written

From the archive.

Music & Sound

johnny cash, finally

apparently being late to music is better than never actually listening # Johnny Cash, finally properly, and yes I know, I know, everybody who already loves him may stop looking...

Laws & Universe

the physics of ice

water becomes solid and suddenly everyone forgets how to walk # Cold. Proper stupid cold, the kind where you leave the house and your face immediately files a complaint. There...

Music & Sound

country roads

no, i am not buying cowboy boots. calm down. # Something strange is happening to my Winamp and before anyone accuses me of a personality crisis I would like to...

Laws & Universe

the observable universe while i should be working

i was technically working. the universe was simply more interesting for nine minutes. # Quiet afternoon at work, everything clean, next appointment not due for a while, phone silent, so...

Spirituality & Faith

prayers and meetings

sometimes silence is the only room nobody can interrupt # Mom’s colleagues were here again tonight and I swear there is something about a table covered in papers that makes...

Beauty & Art

sales, stars and other bright things

hikari + sales = evidence that free will is probably an illusion # Sales with Hikari today, which is essentially financial self harm performed under fluorescent lighting. I told her...

Networks & Codes

the blogosphere and reality

apparently if it happened online it happened less. interesting theory. # I read a discussion today about bloggers who «live through their blogs instead of reality» and I had to...

Beauty & Art

flickr updated

photographic evidence that december actually happened # Flickr updated!!! Finally, because apparently I am perfectly capable of taking photographs but completely incapable of doing anything with them afterwards. I had...

Journey & Time

new years and completed orbits

apparently changing one digit is supposed to change everything # I survived New Year’s Eve, which is already a respectable beginning because yesterday I was functioning at approximately 12% and...

Essence & Future

see you.

23:59. # They’re counting. Ten. Nine. I can hear Hikari laughing before everybody else. Eight. Yuri is looking at me instead of whoever is shouting the numbers. Seven. I told...

Questions & Musings

the worst things of 2007

A complaint list. Finally, my natural genre. # The worst things of 2007. This list is easier because complaining is one of my core competencies. Number one, public transport in...

Memory & Time

the best things of 2007

Completely subjective, badly organised and therefore legally a blog list. # The best things of 2007. Not ranked because I refuse to decide whether a person is better than a...