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Same.

Please ignore past post. 

I am going to keep on using blogger. 

I tried two other blog hosts and did not get the same level of use as here.

This site will remain active. 

Umbilical.

Hello, all. 

I have been slowly cutting the umbilical cord with everything Google.

Sergi and the gang can suck it. 

Way too big to control. 

Anyway, i strongly suggest you switch over to firefox. 

It is a very amazing grassroots tool.

It takes a little more work on the user end, but if you had a computer as long as i've had- and are not a mac user- you should be fine. :)

If you haven't already, because i know you are savvy like that. 

So, i am currently shopping around for another blog home. 

When i find one. I will post a link to it as the last post here. 

I already checked out wordpress, but already feel stuffy. 

The only Googlesque thing i am keeping is youtube. 

Google bought youtube as well as blogfer, but youtube is awesome. 

Ok then. 

Obligatory Elsie photo: 

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Only two this time.

First: At Smith College Alumni weekend. 

We (Elsie and I) walked the campus and took it all in.

Second: Horseneck Beach. We faced the ocean and we won the day.

Second image by John Hargis.

observation #2

I like to see the brazen attitude one has, to ride a bicycle while not using the handlbars.

The most common affrontage is, crossing one's arms while riding, as if to add to this defiance. 

But, it is when, and if i am witness or if those who are armed with video camera or such ephemera.

I love to see you wipe out.

Take a digger.

Biff it.

It makes my day to see such rampant disregard failing and being punished by the forces of balance. 

Shedding.

I had read or heard of shedding one's skin every seven years a long time ago. 

This means that at 7,14,21,28,35 and 42 years of age, we lose a part of ourselves while gaining another.

As i am approaching my 6th shedding, i am re evaluating my station in life as well as my priorities.

If things go as planned, i hope to be accelerating my knowledge and my range of opportunity in the coming year.

My main focus will be information technology and writing.

Both of which are not uknown to me, yet just out of reach, but not at all unatainable.

I've been messing around with learning python, HTML and CSS. 

I hope to achieve a good base of computer sciences and grow upon this base.

2) I have one short story in the can with others brewing.

I want to expand upon what i have written as an enjoyable aside to learning more and exploring both the established and fantastical side of my self. 

Homage.

 I wanted to share someone's blog of Leonard Nimoy at work on one of his photography projects:http://www.sethkayeblog.com/leonard-nimoy-is-back-in-town

He came to Northampton, Mass a lot to show his amazing photography. I think it was in '04, when i just missed him by 5 minutes but was in awe of the surreal beauty he created. As you can see by the person's blog, Leonard was just as passionate about human connections, as he was in his acting.

My earliest memories were of him being a solid rock of intellect on NCC 1701. I loved Spock's way of adhering to logic, and when i found he was half human, i thought we were kin.

I'd like to thank my dad for getting me into Star Trek, science and science fiction. If it weren't for watching the show in syndication in the later 1970's, i'd not have this passion i carry with me to this day.

I'd like to thank Leonard Nimoy's protrayal of Spock for my objective need for thinking and analysis.

I'd like to also talk a minute about my #1 favorite science fiction movie: Blade Runner.

There is going to be a sequal. Harrison Ford is now on board to reprise his role of Deckard. 

This is huge, because early rumors were that a new detective would continue the business of reitring andys. 

Here is some info:

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/denis-villeneuve-in-talks-to-direct-blade-runner-sequel-1201442794/

I am so happy that science fiction and fantasy movies are in the forefront of cinema again. It's pure escapism, but inspiring escapism. 

I'll leave you with Leonard Nimoy's last communication with the general public:

'A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP'

-Leonard Nimoy