Smaller than life

This is an electron microscopes view of a crack in steel. It blew my mind. Its probably the color scheme they chose to make it look like rock and sky, but i think it goes past that to look completley natural. Its just very very small.

Employ

Hurrah! I am now an employee here in beautiful Boulder. I've been applying to places and finally nabbed a job that sounds decent and is full time. I'll be taking pictures of and writing descriptions for items that turn into eBay postings. So basically I'm in the advertising business now.

The most interesting bagel shop

Moe's bagels is a pretty great place near my house. They open at 5:30 when Moe himself bakes all the bagels for Boulder county. They stock 17 types of orange juice, just in case.They make a mean bagel of the day. Pictured: baccopepperjackandegg on today's bacon cheddar bagel. Delicious.

Cash

I don't know how much I've spent on bus fare this month, but it's certainly been less than 80$.

Bus fare and frugality

Now that it's February, it's time to throw away last months bus pass and go get a new one, or is it? Based on last month's bus usage by myself, I figure I would save a few bucks by not buying a monthly pass and going weekly or even per ride in paying. The monthly pass is 79$ which I will round to 80$. The bus fare is 2.50$ a ride with no pass/discount. I can pay for 32 rides with that same 80$ in cash, and so the question is will I ride the bus 32 times in a month? That's 16 round trips somewhere. If I think about it like that, it seems like a realistic amount of places I'd bus to. What I want to add to thought this month is that I end up walking a fair number of places and I have no idea the number of actual trips I take in a month. The pass I have isn't electronic, so there isn't any record of where I was or go, which I like most of the time. So what I'm going to do this month is put 80$ aside in dollars and quarters for ease of use that I spend on the bus. I will use it the whole month and see if I run out or have extra. I'll try and keep extra fare money in my coats and bag so I feel like I always can take the bus, like I can now. Hopefully I'll end up with some extra change and put my mind at ease for awhile.

Literally Literature

"I want to read what someone finished writing last week." I have been playing with this idea that there should be a place you can go and download ePub formatted writings that authors are willing to share under (some sort of) a creative commons copyright. It started because I can't say I know of what's 'going on' in the world other than through my interaction with news outlets and social networks. I don't mean what happened yesterday or last week, but what people are thinking and feeling the day before. A lot of writing I read on the internet is non-fiction and while people's lives are interesting, it will rarely compare with fictionalized storytelling that can be so much more abstract and encompassing. It may be because I've been reading books written in the 60's and they feel like preserved documents about characters that existed in that era. I have no idea what people are writing about, but I assume they are writing out there. There have to be dozens of english students who write for one reason or another, I want to get them to post those writings to one site where people can download and read them. I've seen what past writers have said about the future we live in, I want to read about what's next for us, our future.

Starving

I'm so hungry right now. How do I manage to make it until 7 without eating anything and only drinking coffee? Probably because I eat late at night.