At Night I Dream Of Public Transportation Networks So Efficient They Make Cars Obsolete

N.F. Burnham’s Water Wheel, patented on 7/16/1872. Handprint, date unknown. 

Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911

Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978

Image description: Exterior and interior views of a short, cylindrical device which has a number of moveable flaps around the circumference. 

Image description: The reverse of Page 1, with a Patent Office stamp, burns from the acidic ink on Page 3, and a large handprint, as though someone used a sticky or dirty hand to pick up the page.

Bring back the 4:3 aspect ratio, too.

Movies used to have colors in them

People will be like, "I'm a polymath," and then not even be good at one thing.

bolting upright with a drawing idea as if i have the energy to do anything but sneeze

My spiraea bushes are having their last hurrah. They are starting to drop their tiny flower petals. See you next year.

I love the way leveling works in so many games, like "shooting an arrow through my arm used to kill me, but I picked up a bunch of random things and brought them to random people and the experience was so rewarding that now a rocket-propelled grenade to the face is only a minor inconvenience"

do you ever think about how machine learning basically started in the 1940s and 1950s but they just didn't have the hardware at the time to implement it in a robust way

Fun game: Try to catch yourself thinking irrationally before any erroneous thought has a chance to lead you astray.