That Alle ting skinner-feeling

Det er deilig å bo i en by der det snør. Det er også deilig at man faktisk kan gå ut for å gå på skøyter, og komme til å måtte gå hjem fordi banen har snødd igjen.

An expanding market for the cosmetics industry

Mark Story has taken some stunning portraits of people who have been worn by age. Some have lived in both the 19^th, 20^th and 21^st century, while others just looked unusually worn for their age. The descriptions of the lives of the supercentenarians are oddly poetic, as though these people have already become living stories about themselves.

114 Year 226 day-old
African American woman —
the 3rd oldest living person in the world,
and 2nd oldest living woman in the USA.

Both of her parents were slaves.

The family ate the food they grew.
She never watched her diet
and was never heavy.

She never smoked or drank,
and was 100 years old when
she first saw a doctor.

She was married to her second husband
for 72 years and has
3 children,
5 grandchildren,
46 great-grandchildren,
95 great-great-grandchildren,
and 38 great-great-great-grandchildren.

I love the fact that there are still people alive with slaves for parents. Makes you understand how the distant past is not so distant after all.

Ok, so the Zeno joke wasn\t very funny *ancient greek philosophers and references to obscure philosophical paradoxes, as well as inside blog humor_?how could that joke possiblyhave gone wrong__?). Now my keyboard seems to have taken a premature vacation, but I just wanted to stop by to promise that more substantial posting resumes tomorrow, first with a lengthy post concerning Bill Clinton\s hairdo, and to point you towards this gem of the internets {: the aptly named Shorpy. It\s a weblog which posts the most wonderful photographs from before the 1950\s and all the back to the invention of the photograph. It\s almost guaranteed to raise goosebumps every time.