Last Monday afternoon of August.

Sometimes you need to get away from the desk for 10 minutes & ‘get creative.’

Monday morning & the sun is shining.

Road closed for #Goombay.

I almost resemble that… happy Friday!

somethingchanged:

via comiques.

(Source: http://comiques.tumblr.com/post/6960405068/party)

Friday afternoon on Lexington.

Artist Jason Brown adding details to downtown #AVL mural.

Route 13 arriving on time at the transit center.

9PM, open mic at the kava bar.

And the rhum bar is open.

It’s 8 PM & @sazeracavl is open.

You look fantastic. #avlawesome (Taken with instagram)

(Source: http://instagr.am/p/LKdLw/)

The craftsmanship of the frame is just as important as the subject of the illustration. I ache with the desire to be illustrating work like this.

(Source: http://ice-creamcastles.tumblr.com/post/4995736394)

Wall Street Journal features @CraggieBrewing in Monday’s article, “Where the Action Is.”

Asheville, a Blue Ridge Mountain town of 75,000, has 10 breweries, with two on the way. That can’t compare with the 40 in Portland, Ore., but it stacks up to other beer havens like Milwaukee and Boulder, Colo., which both have fewer than a dozen. “Asheville is definitely on the map and well recognized in the craft-brewing industry,” says Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association in Boulder.

(via WSJ)

College students aren’t good at using Google

Sarah Kessler covers a study on students poor research habits.

“I don’t really know what there is to use,” said one first year accounting major who participated in the study. “I know there are books but I don’t really know how to find them. Really the only thing I know how to do is go to Google and type in what I’m looking for.”

A first year math student offered an alternate explanation: “I’m lazy and I use the Internet.”

(via mashable)

I don’t know where to begin my comment on this research study.

plainclothesman:

Less than 60 miles NW from Mineral, Va (where the earthquakes originated) is Virginia’s hotbed for hydraulic fracturing: a method of creating earthquakes to extract natural gas.

I’m sure that’s just a coincidence though…

http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/DGO/documents/HydraulicFracturing.shtml

Interesting observation. Thanks.

Dear @citizentimes, you’re welcome…

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Does anyone actually use the cafe-style outdoor seating at a gas station?

Train crossing at sunset.

Just realized… it has been two weeks since I drank a cup of coffee. How have I survived?

Lovely evening for a walk through downtown #avl

theeconomist:

Found in a kitchen frequented by our Daily Charts team. Those chaps really love their work.

(Source: http://theeconomist.tumblr.com/tagged/chart)

Painter at work on an #avl mural.

It must have been the morning rain…