Tim in the 718

A Tumblr by Tim Coyne; 38-year old Brooklynite by way of Buffalo and San Diego. To quote Lloyd Dobbler, "I'm looking for a dare to be great situation." If I find one, I promise to share...

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Leave it to the French...

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Ladies and Gentleman, Freddy Adu is in the house....

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Surprisingly, I had nothing to do with this.  Although, I really wish I had...

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Housemate is trying to track one of these down... The Apple Lisa cost $9,995 back in the day

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The T, the I, the M, the M, the Y, it's TIMMY!!

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Penguin Book Covers.

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The Herbarium Amboinense... Rumphius's triumph

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Do you think you have it bad?  If so, look at what happened to Georg Eberhard Rumphius, a 17th-century botanist:

After going blind in 1670 due to glaucoma, Rumphius continued work on his six-volume manuscript with the help of others. His wife and child were lost to an earthquake and tsunami on February 17, 1674. In 1687, with the project nearing completion, the illustrations were lost in a fire. Persevering, Rumphius and his helpers first completed the book in 1690, but the ship carrying the manuscript to the Netherlands was attacked by the French and sank, forcing them to start over from a copy that had fortunately been retained. The Herbarium Amboinense finally arrived in the Netherlands in 1696. However, "the East India Company decided that it contained so much sensitive information that it would be better not to publish it."[3] Rumphius died in 1702, so never saw his work in print; the embargo was lifted in 1704, but then no publisher could be found for it. It finally appeared in 1741, thirty-nine years after Rumphius's death

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