It’s getting harder and harder to post. I’m done with summer classes. Two A’s and a C, so Fall will have to be better. The C was in my easiest class funny enough. I’ve got 16 days of freedom left. Today was my birthday. I felt compelled to post something…and I settled on poetry since [...]
I’m less than my best this morning. I woke up exhausted, I struggled towards the office. I met a Microsoft developer on the train. You could tell from the Silverlight and CodingHorror stickers on his laptop. He seemed like a nice enough guy. However, he was going south towards Downtown and the only Atlanta office [...]
I had a lovely weekend. Good conversations tend to do that. I wasn’t actually productive but maybe my brain was just digesting all that talk during my leisure. Also, my OLPC XO finally arrived. I’ve had some fun with it though there are things to get used to. I’m trying to get it set up [...]
good music: nostalgia 77 – seven nation army, skye – feel good inc, asobi seksu – lions and tigers, marconi union – shibuya crossing, telefon tel aviv – when it happens it moves all by itself honorable mention: massive attack – dissolved girl links: sun’s corporate strategy hahaha (i do like sun though) gapingvoid his [...]
Yesterday’s post did quite well on reddit and my server handled the traffic as well so that’s nice. Expect more details and thoughts on “The Concurrency Problem” as well as a general update tomorrow. As for today, it’s more Neruda. Today’s poem is titled I Will Return, from his work “The Stones of Chile”. Some [...]
More Neruda today, the end of his poem Autumn Testament, from the work “Extravagaria”. If you all really like it I’ll be happy to post the full text to Autumn Testament which numbers a few pages… From having been born so often I have salty experience like creatures of the sea with a passion for [...]
“Past” by Pablo Neruda: We have to discard the past and, as one builds floor by floor, window by window, and the building rises, so do we keep shedding- first, broken tiles, then proud doors, until, from the past, dust falls as if it would crash against the floor, smoke rises as if it were [...]
More Neruda today. He’s good stuff. From his work, Canto General, X: The Fugitive: “XII” To all, to you silent beings of the night who took my hand in the darkness, to you, lamps of immortal light, star lines, staff of life, secret brethren, to all, to you, I say: there’s no giving thanks, nothing [...]
So, today has been unspeakably awesome. Things have been fun here at work, I’ve listened to good music, and I’ve read some wonderful things. Did I mention I have a kick ass new IBM Thinkpad running Linux? More on that later. First, here are some notes on the other stuff: Songs of Summer The Good, [...]
Thursday Literary Lines Today’s piece is from the Neruda book that arrived while I was at the beach. It is titled Ars Poetica. Between shadow and space, between trimmings and damsels, Endowed with a singular heart and sorrowful dreams, Precipitously pallid, withered in the brow And with a furious widower’s mourning for each day of [...]