Karl Selim Lemström worked a quiet miracle in 1882: He strung conducting wire over the summit of a Lapland mountain and watched it draw down a shaft of light from the night sky — poetic proof that the aurora borealis is an electrical discharge from the upper atmosphere.
Boston: I have cut my battery off and connected the line with the earth. We are working with the current from the Aurora Borealis alone. How do you receive my writing?
Portland: Very well indeed. Much better than with the batteries on. There is much less variation in the current, and the magnets work steadier. Suppose we continue to work so until the Aurora subsides?
Boston: Agreed. Are you ready for business?
Portland: Yes; go ahead.
“Ralph R. Maerz patented this snowball maker in 1989, to produce balls with an ‘aesthetically pleasing and aerodynamically sound round shape.’”
1. The Love Chapel - abandoned.
2. The Williamsburg Dental Office (Walk-Ins Welcome!) - open for business, essentially abandoned.
3. The Flower Shoppe - A dense greenness.
4. The _____ - A sign propped in the window that says “We Sell Fresh Baked Bread” - can’t yet figure out how this fits into their business schematic.
5. The Graham Ave Meat Market — The gentleman butcher stands on the stoop in the summer and says “hi” to every passer-by.
6. The Blue Stove Bakery - the chalk-board out front with “Today’s Pies” scrawled in different colors “Lemon Meringue” / “Chocolate Mousse” / “Blackberry Crumble.”
drinking coffee. eating dry cereal straight from a pile next to my computer. had realistic nightmares about planes crashing - “what’s going on?” total panic - woke up. never before have i said with such clarity: “it’s good to be alive!”
“The hall outside the tasting room featured small cutting boards with the names of participating chefs laser cut into them. Accompanying the board was a cup with a favorite taste selected by the chef. Here, Michael Lomanaco of Porter House New York selected branches of dry Silivian oregano.”
from here.
Neat.
