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My bike

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Canon Powershot + Adobe Photoshop

Providence

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I haven’t tended to post personal things or life events here, but I wanted to share this photo and it deserves an explanation. I moved to Providence at the beginning of June to co-found a company with some friends. I’ve been here four weeks and am enjoying it; most parts have the same simple, small-city feeling that I like. I can bike a mile to work or to the grocery store, and two miles to the gym. There are quiet parks within walking distance and friendly people at coffee shops. I will only be here for the summer because I have one more year of school left at Michigan, but it’s good to learn about new places and meet new people. Life is good.

C. S. Neal

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I’m enjoying the work of C. S. Neal, especially this poster. (via Jules)

Archive all read messages in Gmail

Something I do multiple times a day in Gmail is click “Read” to select all messages I’ve read, then hit “Archive.” I’ve used keyboard shortcuts for a while (enable them in Gmail’s settings), but I didn’t know until today that there’s a keystroke for “select all read messages.” It’s * r. Then just hit y to archive.

You can also use * u for unread messages, or * a and * n for selecting and deselecting everything (respectively).

Today*

I’m loving Jonathan Harris’ daily photos and sentiments. My favorite is “Moving“:

When you move around so fast and so much, bits of you flake off and stay everywhere you stop, and if you go too fast you get thin and confused and it’s hard to remember who you are or where you’re from because you’re so many people in so many places at once, all of them blending into each other and all of them blurring into nostalgia, and to get yourself back you need to stop moving and wait for the pieces to wander back into your town and your head and your body, and then you begin to remember and once you remember then you can get back to moving.

So good.

California is a place

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I’m loving the pictures and videos at California is a place. If you only watch one, make it Cannonball. And then Scrapertown.

The Hotel Inntel

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Yes, it’s a real hotel in the Netherlands. More pictures at Design Milk.