Archive for April, 2007
new toy
For the past week or so my exercise has been confined to miles and miles of walking and a bit of biking but yesterday I got to play with a new toy and accomplish something new. A week or two ago, Rudder and I decided to buy a folding bicycle, but by the time we […]
two more poems
One thing about writing, at least for me, is that it tends to engender more writing. The process of working on the book poem has been fun, to see what works each time and what parts suck. I’ve been mildly startled that each incarnation has been such a total change, instead of a tweaking of […]
*not* a book-poem, for a change
Though part of this is about books. I’ve just finished Alma Alexander’s Gift of the Magi, the first of her Worldweavers trilogy (at least I think it’s meant to be a trilogy). I liked it a lot; the combination of school story, the interface of computers in magic and Native American mythology is as interesting […]
and … Take Three!
This is fun. This time I forced the pantoum form (lines 2 & 4 in each verse become lines 1 & 3 in the next verse). It started with one line: the third in this poem, which contains the central image in the previous two versions. Now the initial lead-in doesn’t seem to work with […]
poem, take two
The problem with Monday’s poem is that I really like the central conceit – but otherwise I think a lot of it sucks. Herewith, poem, Take Two (and no idea if there will be further versions): For the Northeast Regional Library, on Cottman and Kindred Avenues I wonder what was outside Plato’s cave: Did the […]
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
It’s Monday morning here, so it is now
Company’s coming!
Things may be a bit quiet in here these next few days – we have our first visitor. We’ll be meeting my uncle this afternoon at the train station, then heading off to wherever he want to visit of the nearby cities. Definitely Brugge (Bruges), but I’m not sure where else. This is where we […]
too much of a good thing
Now I have a new reference for the phrase “embarassment of riches”. An American friend is visiting on business this week; she has business with our company and comes here a lot. Last time she was here, I bemoaned the lack of local yarn shops, and she offered to bring some back on her next […]
There are some times you really shouldn’t laugh. But…
Reuters sez: “Va. Tech gunman had mental problems” Um, this is news??
Jew, aerospace engineer … hero
Possibly it’s not so surprising that one of the stories from VT Tech may have had a special impact on me. Sometimes a story is so symmetrically turned that it ought to have been fiction. Those are the stories that pass very quickly from news to legend. There is something ery satisfying to my sense […]