@kajord I have all of George's books. And he still operates his mail order, baidarka building material business in Bellingham. I knew nothing about David Brower so that's intriguing.

@gosha NordVPN. I like the security and its offshored admin'.

My favorite non-fiction book, Kenneth Brower’s The Starship And The Canoe (1978), is a memoir of time spent with both Dysons, juxtaposing Freeman's dreams of manned rockets to the edge of our galaxy with George's ambitious voyages in fragile, traditional […]

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Son of the late British-American theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, George dropped out of high school and moved to the Pacific Northwest. He lived three years in a treehouse 95 feet above Burrard Inlet, B.C., where he built voyaging kayaks or 'baidarkas'. He is now a respected science historian.

Except maybe in those moments when we are immersed in it, or floating on it, the sea’s expanse is almost incomprehensible. We are so awed by its power that we ascribe aspects of human mood and even sentience to the limitless mutability of its surface state, especially during those episodes when […]