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Halifax, 2004.02.05

This morning I looked out on the commons and saw that someone had made some art. What started as a series of parallel lines made in the snow for a military exercise (there's a barracks at the far end of the commons from my building) had been changed into some funky line art of a guy on a skateboard bouncing off of a railing. It was pretty cool.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row