/dev/nullCameron PurdyDylan Thomas- February 20, 2008 Dylan Thomas on the spoken word: Too much poetry to-day is flat on the page, a black and white thing of words created by intelligences that no longer think it necessary for a poem to be read and understood by anything but eyes.http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/dylan_thomas Sun wanted me to post it- February 19, 2008 OK, it's not a "cat blogger day" button, but it'll do: I'm speaking at JavaOne this year on .. oh yeah, everyone can probably guess what I'd be speaking on. It'll be fresh though, I promise.http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/sun_wanted_me_to_post Azimuth- February 18, 2008 While digging through some more old files, I found this one, one of my favorites, titled simply Azimuth. Only ask and i would tell you every moment i would say hold the sun there at its azimuth or tear my heart away. Only speak and i would listen countless hours every day sing to me while light remains or tear my heart away. The sun turns green, she turns to leave a moment's whisper, let it be we hold the sun upon the ocean or sink into the sea. As a small explanation: When I was a child...http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/azimuth Rilke on Poetry- February 16, 2008 I was sorting through a decade of accreted files that had been bequeathed from one computer notebook to another as some form of ritualistic baton-passing as each notebook (or hard drive) had in turn given up its ghost -- or at least had lost favor in my perpetual quest for the latest and greatest technology. At any rate, I found my stash. No, not that kind of stash. I found a stash of Rilke. This one piece is called "For the Sake of a Single Poem", and is from a collection called "From The...http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/rilke_on_poetry Code Reviews- February 10, 2008 We had C++ code reviews going on a good portion of the week, and so when someone sent me this comic, it gave me a good chuckle: Too true. Classic. (Via OS news via Hal.)http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/code_reviews |