WhimsyLandPoetry, Technology, Cuisine, Politics, TessellationNo One To Trifle With- May 22, 2008 Well, actually I have a dozen people to trifle with as I'm wandering over to Cath's to have dinner with her Terry and various sons and friends of the younger persuasion. My responsibility is dessert, and it occurred to me that I haven't made a good trifle in years. I think the last time was when Sweet Junie and I lugged one down to Ally and John's, and I think bell-bottoms were still in style. But first, some news about my tiling. Dima showed up on...http://www.whimsyspeaks.com/2008/05/no_one_to_trifle_with.html The Poet Tessellates- May 15, 2008 I hate my kitchen floor. It's composed of these faux hardwood strips that yearn to be real oak or something, but which buckled and bulged the first time my dishwasher overflowed ten years ago. If I were married, or domestically inclined, I would have had it replaced a long time ago. I spend a reasonable amount of my free time in the kitchen and who wants to look at these posers Now that work has slowed down a bit, I got a bug up my nether parts, and while...http://www.whimsyspeaks.com/2008/05/the_poet_tessellates.html Pixies and Accordions- May 12, 2008 The cover of Poets &Writers is adorned with a picture of Valzhyna Mort (leaning on an accordion) staring back at you with blue eyes, turquoise earrings, and an elfin grin. If I handed the magazine to my mother, I'm sure she would say "cute as a button". And yes, I called my mother today and even sent her a bunch of tulips last week. Ms. Mort is a poet from Belarus, which coincidentally is also where Dima's parents are from. Copper Canyon Press...http://www.whimsyspeaks.com/2008/05/pixies_and_accordions.html Free Software & Free Lunches- May 6, 2008 I got an email from a client today, worried about some new aggressiveness in enforcing the GNU Public License. The short story is that the GPL is the cornerstone of the open source movement, and particularly championed by the father of "free software", Richard Stallman. As you can tell from the picture, this guy is not your basic Republican capitalist. Stallman asks people to envision a world in which there is only "free software" and to assiduously.http://www.whimsyspeaks.com/2008/05/free_software_free_lunches.html Big Erection- May 5, 2008 It occurs to me that one reason I like reading Dean Young is that his poems seem quite like my dreams. All except that one about the big erection. I've never had a big erection in a dream. One of the science magazines that Sweet Junie got for me was Skeptic. It's an odd magazine with excellent production values. All kinds of notable people seem to have written in it and generated accolades for it, much like the blurbs we see on the back of every poetry book,.http://www.whimsyspeaks.com/2008/05/big_erection.html |