November 2010
6 posts
How I keep in touch.
The empty restaurant attracts nothing but flies,
Is what I tell myself after parking on a table
Nursing a glass of tea
For eternity.
In exchange for making the cafe seem busy
I use their ‘free’ wi-fi.
I take credit for that guy buying all that food.
I give this joint ‘free’ marketing.
Fair trade?
Maybe not;
Just a little dance
Between two wallflowers of the economy.
Speaking into the VOIP.
I take comfort in the time that keeps me away
From you, while I use words like ‘conversation’ liberally
To describe what happens between us.
I prefer leaving messages in text that
You don’t have to respond to immediately;
As if I want you to savor uncorking the bottle
To find note within.
But before I get carried away talking prettily about
Internet message boards and...
I don't see you.
It seemed that there were still things one could not do. So one did everything else as well as one possibly could and found new things to try, to will oneself to master, and always one realized, at the kernel and heart of things, that the ends of the earth would not be far enough away.
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree
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I let out a sigh that drips out of my body
Like the last...
Living life full-bore.
What does it mean that the day is long?
Do I actually have more minutes to every hour?
Is this not a good thing?
But the truth is
We know the day does end, and at the end is a door,
And when we open that door
It leads to another day exactly like this one.
The sun ducking under the buildings in the distance
Is no more meaningful than the short hand of my watch pointing at 6.
Nothing really...
The Thing About Twitter
Is that it uses big words to describe itself,
Like “timeline”, to say “where all the status updates show up.”
Imagine that, the line of time, as something you call yours
You can freely travel through history
Though not yet to the future,
Like being able to take three thousand steps backwards then back again,
But only up to the present.
The thing about my timeline is...
October 2010
5 posts
Hell & Microsoft Office 2010.
The way to hell is illuminated by innumerable small indignities
Too shameful to share.
I download software on trial
And it works smoothly despite a few bugs here and there;
When its time is up, I buy the original
Like a good customer,
And three hundred or so tomorrows beckon brightly
With double rainbows of promised productivity.
But the thing about using beta versions
Is that the...
