A Southerner in New York by way of San Francisco.Tumblr (3.0; @nyceophyte)http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/<p>This is it for now, I suppose. </p> <p>The end.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13455222512http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13455222512Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:37:53 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv89mtB75E1qfrjedo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13305237058http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13305237058Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:52:05 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv80lfAjZl1qfrjedo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Goodbye, New York</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13298942307http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13298942307Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:36:51 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv4oi3FzXK1qfrjedo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>So long so soon.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13214118795http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13214118795Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:22:51 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv4o3wL10U1qfrjedo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Lakey.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13213767741http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13213767741Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:14:20 -0500“<p>It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures.</p> <p>[long pause]</p> <p>But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch, click! And you’re gone. </p> <p>[pause]</p> <p>Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Steve Jobs on death and the afterlife. This is the last paragraph of Issacson’s biography.  (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.minusmanhattan.com/">minusmanhattan</a>)</p> <p><strong>For some reason the idea of the off switch and a fast goodbye is far more comforting.</strong></p></em>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13162069252http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/13162069252Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:17:24 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lutku4XFRW1qixp3no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://zoestagg.tumblr.com/post/12973635991/i-put-the-treadmill-incline-on-15-this-morning-and">zoestagg</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I put the treadmill incline on 15 this morning and just remembered.</p> <p>I don’t think there’s a grade in this town I haven’t scaled. Ten years of climbing is a long time. Long enough to be part of you.</p> <p>And uphill is easier in heels, than down.</p> </blockquote> <p>Bring the slope.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12974747272http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12974747272Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:58:25 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lutavhCuas1qzx3wso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sfhaps.tumblr.com/post/12933923007/photo-szymek-s">sfhaps</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>♥</p> <p><br/> Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maciupelis/6352663250/in/pool-32053327@N00">Szymek S.</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Yep.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12967953955http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12967953955Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:40:30 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu0r16PqqN1qzx3wso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sfhaps.tumblr.com/post/12939932681/always-get-em-gruesos">sfhaps</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Always get em gruesos</p> </blockquote> <p>I am excited to get back to many things in San Francisco. These chips are some of them.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12967646960http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12967646960Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:25:59 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lutifiPt4n1qfrjedo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>YES THEY HAVE</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12931345737http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12931345737Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:38:06 -0500<p>What are my birth certificate, social security card, debit card, a canceled check, two W-2s, insurance card, medical records and a college diploma? Not enough proof for NY state to issue me an I.D.!</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12891064816http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12891064816Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:22:59 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lursizaRwM1qfrjedo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Proper bankrolling? I hope so.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12890989479http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12890989479Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:20:59 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhtpotHTbk1qzdwano1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://libraryland.tumblr.com/post/12884613911/photo-30-cents-two-transfers-love-by-richard">libraryland</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span><em>Photo</em>: “30 Cents, Two Transfers, Love” by Richard Brautigan, embedded in a Muni station near the ballpark in (naturally) San Francisco, by Flickr used <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2210905270/">Marcin Wickery</a>, used under Creative Commons license.</span></p> </blockquote>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12885209421http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12885209421Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:03:41 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luoeh3Msfg1qcd87uo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://d-sperfectplaylist.tumblr.com/post/12811201810/the-shit-i-witness-on-the-train-only-in-new-york">d-sperfectplaylist</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The shit I witness on the train.<br/>Only in New York.</p> </blockquote> <p>I love those corner seats.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12834647911http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12834647911Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:27:17 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lup9n8EYm81qfrjedo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>10 days more of this.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12832751930http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12832751930Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:37:56 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luogd3WWbE1qfrjedo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12813359756http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12813359756Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:05:26 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luhb3dehmu1qzyw3co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/12645318669/avenue-b-randy-zucherman">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Avenue B, </em><a href="http://zucherman.tumblr.com/post/12629448205/avenue-b-oil-on-canvas">Randy Zucherman</a></p> </blockquote>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12648858068http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12648858068Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:31:12 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luhzl4eCe61qzqj0jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://rachelfershleiser.com/post/12646853640/noraleah-the-true-new-yorker-secretly-believes">rachelfershleiser</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.noraleah.com/post/12643108074/the-true-new-yorker-secretly-believes-that-people">noraleah</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”</p> <blockquote> <p>- John Updike (via <a href="http://clayman.tumblr.com/post/12639409103/the-true-new-yorker-secretly-believes-that-people">clayman</a>)</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>Who was I just talking about this with…?</p> </blockquote> <p>Not a true New Yorker.</p>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12648776306http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12648776306Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:28:56 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrzg9d6Kjk1qejcywo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://snapshotsofthe7.tumblr.com/post/12561387707/nature-must-not-win-the-game-but-she-cannot">snapshotsofthe7</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Nature must not win the game <span>but she cannot lose.”</span></p> </blockquote>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12563054668http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12563054668Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:01:59 -0500“every facility is inadequate— the hospitals and schools and playgrounds are overcrowded, the express highways are feverish, the unimproved highways and bridges are bottlenecks; there is not enough air and not enough light, and there is usually either too much heat or too little. but the city makes up for its hazards and its deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin— the sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled.”<br/><br/> - <em><strong>e.b. white, <em>here is new york</em></strong> (via <a href="http://notaqueensphotoblog.tumblr.com/">notaqueensphotoblog</a>)</em>http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12557412232http://nyceophyte.tumblr.com/post/12557412232Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:23:53 -0500