Nate’s passing thoughts of this world.Tumblr (3.0; @mad)http://mad.tumblr.com/<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03brod.html?em">Personal Health - A Breathing Technique Offers Help for People With Asthma - NYTimes.com</a>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/235815426http://mad.tumblr.com/post/235815426Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:59:06 -0800<a href="http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2009/10/the-story-behind-our-photo-of-grieving-chimps.html">NGM Blog Central - The Story Behind Our Photo of Grieving Chimps - National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com</a>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/231674650http://mad.tumblr.com/post/231674650Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:42:34 -0800<a href="http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/pod-fall-foliage/foliage-season_pod_image.html">Photo of the Day: Fall Foliage Photo Gallery - National Geographic</a>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/231673347http://mad.tumblr.com/post/231673347Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:40:14 -0800“One of them, AB920, requires the utilities to compensate a homeowner whose solar array or small wind generator produces more electricity during the year than the customer uses. Until now, if a homeowner’s panels produced more energy than the home used in an entire year, the utilities got the excess for free.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/12/BUS41A4K4M.DTL">Governor signs bills that boost solar power</a></p> <p>i’m such an energy nerd that i know what all three of these bills are.</p></em>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/212447947http://mad.tumblr.com/post/212447947Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:43:59 -0700“So I did a time study where I calculated on average how many pages of a paper I could read when I had a movie on in the background versus when I didn’t. I found I could read at about 80 percent efficiency.” So the distraction was worth it; it meant he could go on reading for much longer stretches.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/13klas.html?em">18 and Under - Texting, Surfing, Studying? - NYTimes.com</a></em>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/212407059http://mad.tumblr.com/post/212407059Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:53:33 -0700“Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don’t make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I’m gonna be pissed and miserable every time I have to shop. Because my natural default setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me. About MY hungriness and MY fatigue and MY desire to just get home, and it’s going to seem for all the world like everybody else is just in my way. And who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are, and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line. And look at how deeply and personally unfair this is.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html">David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University</a></em>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/204702739http://mad.tumblr.com/post/204702739Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:27:39 -0700<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqayzfnUAt1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193066220http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193066220Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:57:19 -0700<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqayyy0grO1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>The Mason Jennings Band</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193066012http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193066012Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:57:03 -0700<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqayyiWtfT1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Mason Jennings, El Rey</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193065894http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193065894Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:56:47 -0700<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqayy13Sbv1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Mason + Guitarist</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193065693http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193065693Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:56:30 -0700<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqayxpzh0Y1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Mason Jennings</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193065557http://mad.tumblr.com/post/193065557Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:56:18 -0700““I just try to let them answer their own questions,” Jennings says. “I’ll just ask them what they think.” For instance: “My son will be like, ‘What’s above space, Dad?’ And I’ll say, ‘What do you think’s above space?’ And he’ll say, ‘Probably tornadoes.’””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.synthesis.net/music/interview/item-7031/2008-05-27-mason_jennings">Synthesis : Music : Mason Jennings : Mason Jennings : Touched By Mother Nature’s Wrath</a></em>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/192760294http://mad.tumblr.com/post/192760294Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:52:33 -0700<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kouaa1PqB61qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>IMG_0481</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767355http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767355Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:08:30 -0700<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koua9vLuJa1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>IMG_0486</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767292http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767292Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:08:24 -0700<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koua9qnga41qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>IMG_0487</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767232http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767232Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:08:18 -0700<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koua9j64km1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>IMG_0488</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767150http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767150Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:08:11 -0700<img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koua99FlyL1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>IMG_0493</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767066http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767066Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:08:02 -0700<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koua934QPf1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>IMG_0513</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767010http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169767010Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:07:55 -0700<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koua8xNvSR1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>the phantom ship in still waters</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169766956http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169766956Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:07:50 -0700<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_koua8r6DzT1qz4x2so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>mt. thielsen over crater lake</b></p>http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169766906http://mad.tumblr.com/post/169766906Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:07:43 -0700