A beautiful photograph of a beautiful sculpture made of paper, by artist Peter Callesen. I love this because it is about flow and it required the same for its production. And it’s quite something to see where that little canoe is going! PS. This is my 1000th post here at Parking Lot, give or take a few. Thanks for reading along!
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In a meeting yesterday we were discussing the fact that the human species is approaching a cliff, a massive precipice, and that we have so far been completely unable to figure out how to turn back from the edge. I suggested that maybe it’s too late for that and we only have time to teach each other how to fly.
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I’m here in Peterborough, Ontario, where my partner Caitlin and I met and where we lived 15 years ago. Today I drove past a place I lived in up in Lakefield, north of the city, where I took a room at the tender age of just-gone-eighteen. After 20 years, the house is still there and the town remarkably familiar. We are travelling here and to Ottawa and Toronto to visit places we have lived so that our kids (now aged 9 and 5) can get a sense of some of the life their parents had before they were …
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Off to Chicago to celebrate the life partnership of friends Michael Herman and Jill Perkins. I’m looking forward to a weekend of fun and merriment and celebration of these two people. I have had the pride and pleasure to work with Michael for five years now on some amazing projects in Open Space, including an important summit in Alaska in 2002, to co-editing of the Open Space Technology Users NON-Guide, the Giving Conference in 2004 and practice workshops all over the place. I met Jill at the Gioving Conference in 2004 and have rarely laughed so hard with someone. She …
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So it says here that 38 is, among other things notable because: 38! – 1 yields 523022617466601111760007224100074291199999999, which is a factorial prime. There is no answer to the equation φ(x) = 38, making 38 a nontotient. 38 is the sum of the squares of the first three primes. 37 and 38 are the first pair of consecutive positive integers not divisible by any of their digits. 38 is the largest even number which cannot be written as the sum of two odd composite numbers. Also, it’s the number of games played by each team in the English Premiership, the atomic …