Tapwater Jackson -- Living Small

Ukulele Consultant and Ego Kabuki Critic.

Tapwater Jackson has been performing lobotomies with a broken ketchup bottle since 1953.

Occasionally, I am tapwaterj at gmail dot com. But, really, so what?

Biography of sorts here.

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  1. Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Passes by the Planet’s Rings. Via Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic

    Saturn’s Moon, Titan, Passes by the Planet’s Rings. Via Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic

     

  2. Archive of High-Res Photos From NASA’s Gemini Missions. NASA via Wired Science.

     

  3. Dove As Angel — 45 seconds of flight.

     
  4. Egene Koo, 혼자 있기1 Being Alone1, Oil on Canvas, 116.7X91cm, 2011 Via Journey Round My Skull

    Egene Koo, 혼자 있기1 Being Alone1, Oil on Canvas, 116.7X91cm, 2011

    Via Journey Round My Skull

     
  5. "Words and images are like shells, no less integral parts of nature than are the substances they cover, but better addressed to the eye and more open to observation."
    — George Santayana, Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies
     

  6. Abbey Road Spoof via Wooster

     

  7. Deciphering the True Meanings of Song Lyrics

    ” … I myself am continually surprised to learn the hidden meanings embedded in other works. For instance: Bob Dylan’s “Tambourine Man” is actually a Minnesota Vikings fight song.”

    Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

     
  8. "Eating with the fullest pleasure — pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance — is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend."
    — Attributed to Wendell Berry, by Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food An Eater’s Manifesto, pp. 196-197.
     

  9. Monoscapes, by Mark Boyle

     
  10. Mueller, The New Yorker

    Mueller, The New Yorker

     
  11. Comet Lovejoy, photo by Dan Burbank on board the International Space Station Cue the Three Wiseguys.

    Comet Lovejoy, photo by Dan Burbank on board the International Space Station

    Cue the Three Wiseguys.

     
  12. It just isn’t Christmas without the DJ Riko Mixmas edition. Here is the 2011 edition and all the rest.

    It just isn’t Christmas without the DJ Riko Mixmas edition. Here is the 2011 edition and all the rest.

     
  13. "Most successful long-term relationship: a sourdough culture."
    — Tapwater Jackson
     
  14. Hubble Captures Nearby Spiral Galaxy “Messier 74 galaxy is located about 32 million light years away, in the direction of the Pisces constellation. It is estimated to contain about 100 billion stars, slightly less than our own galaxy, the Milky Way.” The Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen

    Hubble Captures Nearby Spiral Galaxy

    “Messier 74 galaxy is located about 32 million light years away, in the direction of the Pisces constellation. It is estimated to contain about 100 billion stars, slightly less than our own galaxy, the Milky Way.”

    The Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen

     
  15. One millisecond after detonation of nuclear explosion from 1952 tests performed in Nevada, captured by a high speed Rapid Action Electronic camera. The First Millisecond Of A Nuclear Explosion, The Presurfer

    One millisecond after detonation of nuclear explosion from 1952 tests performed in Nevada, captured by a high speed Rapid Action Electronic camera.

    The First Millisecond Of A Nuclear Explosion, The Presurfer