http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Everyday nostalgia en Vox Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:13:09 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/world-on-fire.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/world-on-fire.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/world-on-fire.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:13:09 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad696d4400004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad696d4400004-50si" alt="World on fire" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Outside Auburn. We were going to stop for breakfast, but the smoky air destroyed our appetites. The news reports that the National Guard's been called out to help the exhausted fire crews. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/world-on-fire.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad695f1890005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mobile http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/vox-hunt-oh-canada.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/vox-hunt-oh-canada.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/vox-hunt-oh-canada.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:22:30 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad696a8cf0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad696a8cf0004-50si" alt="Dudley Do-Right" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> In honor of Canada Day, show us your favorite Canadian. Shouldn't that be favourite Canadian? <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/vox-hunt-oh-canada.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa968431cf0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> canada day vox hunt favorite canadian favourite canadian http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/bay-area-figurative.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/bay-area-figurative.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/bay-area-figurative.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:50:44 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/book/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad696015c0004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad696015c0004-50si" alt="Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965" /></a> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fae8c77961000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fae8c77961000b-50si" alt="Girl Wading (after Bischoff)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I've been in the doldrums as far as painting goes. It's a familiar state of being to anybody who tries to paint and hold down a job at the same time. Anyway, to get myself back into the meridian I flipped through one of my favorite exhibit cata... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/bay-area-figurative.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad69604310004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> drawings art bay area artwork http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/tonights-forecast-dark.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/tonights-forecast-dark.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/tonights-forecast-dark.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:25:46 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/audio/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa968121c40002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa968121c40002-50si" alt="FM &amp; AM" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I'm moved by how many Gen X tributes to George Carlin there have been today; it seems like so many of us experienced repeat listenings to his Seventies albums. It's strange that I even heard them at the time, given how square my parents were, but... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/tonights-forecast-dark.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fae8c5b4dc000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> dads george carlin the seventies http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/being-40-is-the-new-punk-rock.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/being-40-is-the-new-punk-rock.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/being-40-is-the-new-punk-rock.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:09:46 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000d09e4e5c20be2b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000d09e4e5c20be2b-50si" alt="Yours truly, circa 1987" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> There's a lot of birthday news to hear these days. Maybe it's just a banner year, with one of my husband's friends turning 40, and one of my friends having a baby in, like, the next couple hours or something. Me, I'm just 42 today, not a really ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000d4141abdc83c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> punk middle age being 40 http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/the-cortisol-chronicles-walk-while-ye-have-the-light.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/the-cortisol-chronicles-walk-while-ye-have-the-light.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/the-cortisol-chronicles-walk-while-ye-have-the-light.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 31 May 2008 20:45:37 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fae8be2682000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fae8be2682000b-50si" alt="My New Commute" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I have a new job, my first in a while. I'm hesitant to say much about this-- to me-- novel situation, as if I'll jinx the whole setup, and wake up tomorrow with a dreadfully familiar sensation of nowhere to go. So, about the job-- eh. But lemme... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/the-cortisol-chronicles-walk-while-ye-have-the-light.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fae8beb9ac000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> work oakland bicycle commuting walking cortisol http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/then-what-s-the-national-anthem.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/then-what-s-the-national-anthem.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/then-what-s-the-national-anthem.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 23 May 2008 12:09:31 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa967790280002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa967790280002-50si" alt="Choose your country" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Up to now I thought I had a complete understanding of what's behind the buzzword "Web 2.0." I thought, and you probably did too, that it just meant puffy fonts on gradient backgrounds with rounded corners, and brand names apparently concocted in... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/then-what-s-the-national-anthem.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad68aa32b0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> work forms antarctica web 2.0 http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/why-sifter-on-bay-leaf-container.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/why-sifter-on-bay-leaf-container.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/why-sifter-on-bay-leaf-container.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 22 May 2008 18:38:24 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad68a6b270004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fad68a6b270004-50si" alt="Why: Sifter on bay leaf container" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Standardization yields dumb things sometimes, like the sifter thoughtlessly provided on this container of bay leaves. Each leaf is whole and too big to fit through the sifter. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/why-sifter-on-bay-leaf-container.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa9677599b0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mobile thisisbroken http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/mom-20.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/mom-20.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/mom-20.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 17 May 2008 11:55:05 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa9675ae620002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa9675ae620002-50si" alt="Mom&#39;s on Flickr" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> This week my mom got back on the Web. She'd been there briefly a couple of years ago; now she intends to stay a little while longer. I phoned to check on things, and she remarked offhandedly that she and my sister were browsing YouTube. I sent h... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/mom-20.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000fa96764d9c0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> parents mom web 2.0 web 1.0 http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/union-station.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(mejarc) http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/union-station.html?_c=feed-rss http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/union-station.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:46:28 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0717691bc000f48cf34cf10002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00b8ea0717691bc000f48cf34cf10002-50si" alt="Union Station!" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Why can't airports be as nice as the grand rail terminals still with us? I love entering the main hall here, with its Deco-era fittings restored and extant. It's hard to imagine, but San Francisco's shabby Trans Bay Terminal was once this appeali... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://long-term-memory.vox.com/library/post/union-station.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0717691bc000f48d1206620001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mobile los angeles road trip