by Maxine Kumin I eat thesewild red raspberriesstill warm from the sunand smelling faintly of jewelweedin memory of my father tucking the napkinunder his chin and bendingover an ironstone bowlof the bright drupeletsawash in cream my fatherwith the sigh of a manwho has seen all and been redeemedsaid time after timeas he lifted his spoon men kill for this.
Today at work, I didn’t eat lunch. I was busy working on getting a Flash gallery up for one of our stations, and was finishing up all the last minute details. Next thing I know, the coffee’s worn off and it’s damn near 6 PM. Once I got home, I started to muck around on the computer. I spent more…
This is a fun Flash game, which I got from twelvestone. Definitely give it a whirl, but be prepared to lose about 10 to 15 minutes of your day to this thing.
Talked to a bunch of folks tonight. I’ve been off of IM lately, and ever since I started working fulltime, I’ve not been using IM all that often at work. Mainly, I load up Trillian when I get back to my apartment, on my home computer. Tonight, I talked with rypunked, Designess, Mellzah, Matt, mofo, verbal , chelle and Mr….
At work, Ben and I were trying to put together a proof-of-concept. There was a request for an outside vendor’s offering (transparent Flash ads that contained video). As much as I oppose this idea (and I mean to make a formal, well-informed presentation on exactly why I think this particular approach is potentially damaging), Ben and I both wanted to…
Seeing this made me think of the girl I tried to find who was trying to find that boy.
On my way home from work, I ran into Liz and Steph on North Avenue. We talked a bit (chatted about the nonfiction book Liz had about Mormons). Next thing I know, they’ve convinced me to go grab a beer with them and we make our way to Holiday. Ahhhh Holiday. Located on the corner of Honore and Milwaukee. I…
Sorry. I had plans to do more for today, but all I managed was to do updates from the weekend.
Well, I said that I would be keeping my family out of this blog (since they never agreed to its terms and it feels a bit invasive to me). So… you all get the edited for TV version of the weekend. Basically, everyone (and I mean everyone) on my father’s side of the family gathered in Indianapolis for my grandmother’s…
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Got swept up into a side thing for Matt. It’s a basic programming experiment, and bugging me since I can’t get it to work. I’ve been futzing with this for longer than I’d like to admit. Still – good practice. Unfortunately, I may not get done with it tonight. An early evening for me, as I’ve got to head back…
I’ve been looping "Rapture" by Pedro the Lion lately. The lyrics aren’t all that earth shattering, but I’m definitely drawn to the music/notes. And because it’s song, I give the words/rhymes/phrasing more leeway than I would a poem. Overall, I like it a great deal. When I was in grad school, I was asked (during my "final" review where my…
Hehehehe. For a while, everyone playing UT figured out this way to "walk" on the air. Next thing you know, we’re all screwing around and people are trying to lie down on the sky. A silly thing, but this game is a comfortable habit. Everyone knows one another, and there’s yet another variation on online community that happens through this…