last night in this house
we mop the dust of good years
tomorrow’s too soon
On that note, I am shutting off my computer in this location for the last time.
Gods, I’m tired. Evidently my allergy to cardboard dust makes my hayfever look insignificant. Tomorrow will be so exciting!
…and I have proof. Tamar, my neighbor across Ellis St., knowing that I am a particular fan of the sweet pea for its color and fragrance, cut the first two sweet pea blooms of the year and gifted me with them. They are sitting in a small water glass next to me now […]
Okay, I generally frown on content-less (that is, rant-free) posts. Nevertheless, here follow three videos I have greatly enjoyed recently. My musical tastes are expanding again after a long period of contraction (must be spring).
The Class of 73 Bells
Prefuse 73 with School of 7 Bells
It’s Showtime
Electric Six
Gotye
Heart’s a Mess
I must add — I […]
winter hit kitsap
but summer came to whatcom
cured the destroyer
The (pseudo)haiku is a lousy form of poetry. This is just a codification of events — the death of Barry and Heather Bryant’s youngest back in my home town, under tragic circumstances, the balmy air that has finally found us in late June, and the overwhelmingly […]
Most reasonably computer literate folks will recall the brilliant visual rhetoric of the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ad campaign (which has continued expanding since the last time I looked, and which trashes incisively on Vista’s lamentable stability and usability concerns).
Some bright young person extended the iconography to include Unix and Windows Vista (thanks […]
Today was a brisk, chilly, bracing sort of day. During my lunchtime walk I felt peppy enough to do a cartwheel when I thought no one was looking. Bad idea. My shoulders have not yet forgiven me.
And my knees crackle and pop when I hacky sack.
And my back aches. And so […]
I totally need this stamp: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8326992@N08/2363227391/
Although, in retrospect it would probably actually be a really bad idea to get one of these for me. I would certainly end up with permanent ink stars marring both of my monitors, and I suspect my colleagues’ spouses would eventually object to the damage I would surely do […]
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this in a special weather statement before:
ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE VERY TEMPTING TO JUMP INTO AREA LAKES AND RIVERS TO COOL OFF…IT WOULD NOT BE A WISE IDEA. WATER TEMPERATURES WERE STILL QUITE COLD OR IN THE 30S AND 40S. ALSO… RIVERS WERE RUNNING HIGH AND SWIFT DUE TO […]
(10:34:44 AM) (Dude): we’ve been getting much feedback on this, i can get it to work sometimes but others not
(10:34:49 AM) (Dude): with any luck it’s something simple, eh?
(10:35:23 AM) Zero: I have learned not to hope for good luck
(10:36:11 AM) (Dude): hehe
(10:36:19 AM) (Dude): spoken like a true corporate american
(10:36:26 AM) Zero: heh
(10:36:27 […]
Ah, this made me happy. Especially the “cat yodeling” application. The “corporal cuddling” methodology is actually one we have used, with a great deal of success, with Ralph — in fact, after repeated use, his middle-of-the-night berserker rages are a thing of the past.
In comparing myself to geek archetypes such as those depicted […]