Jackspace http://www.jackspace.com doing a hang-ten on the surfboard of reality Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:35:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Time is Now – Occupy The Planet http://www.jackspace.com/2011/10/03/the-time-is-now-occupy-the-planet http://www.jackspace.com/2011/10/03/the-time-is-now-occupy-the-planet#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:35:22 +0000 jackspace http://www.jackspace.com/?p=364

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We took him to the vet who pulled eight abscessed molars, shaved his severely clumped fur that had thorns embedded through poking into his skin, and removed a ping pong ball-sized tumor from his neck. He was under anesthesia during all of this, thankfully. We named him Grover. He was apparently abandoned.

He’s doing well now. He’s getting on well with our other four dogs. Our cat Nellie is still a bit of a mystery for him.

Grover's Makeover

Grover's Makeover

]]> http://www.jackspace.com/2011/06/12/introducing-grover/feed 0 VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage http://www.jackspace.com/2011/06/03/vlt-very-large-telescope-hd-timelapse-footage http://www.jackspace.com/2011/06/03/vlt-very-large-telescope-hd-timelapse-footage#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:55:36 +0000 jackspace http://www.jackspace.com/?p=354 Amazing:

]]> http://www.jackspace.com/2011/06/03/vlt-very-large-telescope-hd-timelapse-footage/feed 0 Tsunamis from the Past http://www.jackspace.com/2011/04/07/tsunamis-from-the-past http://www.jackspace.com/2011/04/07/tsunamis-from-the-past#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:16:59 +0000 jackspace http://www.jackspace.com/?p=350 There are signs up along the coast of Japan, some 600 or so years old, that say do not build houses below this rock:

“High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,” the stone slab reads. “Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.”

]]> http://www.jackspace.com/2011/04/07/tsunamis-from-the-past/feed 0 “The Second Coming” – Yeats http://www.jackspace.com/2010/07/22/the-second-coming-yeats http://www.jackspace.com/2010/07/22/the-second-coming-yeats#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:26:22 +0000 jackspace http://www.jackspace.com/2010/07/22/the-second-coming-yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”

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