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spring is coming

nobody@vox.com(tracyshaun) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:33:10 -0800

Spring is finally coming to the bay area. This little purple flower showed up on a vertical rock face along a trail above where I live. This was the only one there... no other purple flowers within sight... and one of them is just about to open up.

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Apologies from Sinead

nobody@vox.com(tracyshaun) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:55:45 -0800

Sinead O'Connor "all apologies"

And once you've had your fill of Lithium, you can list to one of my favorite covers ever. Sinead did this awhile back and I still so love sitting back and relaxing to this gem...

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Pure Lithium

nobody@vox.com(tracyshaun) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:12:27 -0800

Nirvana - Lithium (Acoustic) (+Lyrics) (Kurt Cobain)

Now this is the way they should have released Lithium... I can totally hear this as some young kid playing his heart out in a small seattle coffee shop. It's so much more real than the produced version that shows up on Nevermind. Enjoy!

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QotD: Favorite Poem

nobody@vox.com(tracyshaun) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:41:51 -0800

What is one of your favorite poems?
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

From Clark Coolidge:

I DROVE THROUGH THIS OLD WORLD THIS AFTERNOON
and it was ancient, quite, lean and brass
peach gas in bean stacks, babes on bikes of wood
humans held in shelter of their lives
The earth spread wide in folds beneath the turns
of men though new their stores of use were old
as if nothing had stopped that once had turned to brown
alarms of act all casual seemed a gown
I passed the rows of brick where Easter neared
with eggs of varnished ice that vanished not
in air as blue to touch as mountain's thrust is rough
on windows hard with dust that I had traced there once
The town then filled the notch with laddereed woods
and brightness hives of stuff all hands grow bare to touch
in crowds that leaned at noon contrariwise
would knot my route make prisms of my eyes
So casts the light this land no time at all
an eddy of the force to elbow shirts
as far beneath the ledge the needle drops
that banisters protrude from stories fast and small
I smell the fall, I dodge the urge
I whistle through the rates of atoms dear
the sky so clear the land to bulge
mere mention of halt plan a care
The light is over
man a boundless stare
2.
Then stood upon a bench that ruled my car
through venturesome whole days far by all unmarked
and watched the boardsides strand an ankled past
by turbines locked by keys of empty glass
As home absorbs the time that held it up
I fill to amber with the light of days
held waste till afternoon had turned them up
and held my mind in furnish of their state
Whole hills of housing edges fold
then massed will each thing fully last
and time come to boil the each turn dark
that breath will cool to beads upon a mast
And as I pass to catch the lost anew
is praps to spy the end of things ahead
and none more bogus than the thing that's new
that fades into a background still more fast
The old ones state their case as plain as sum
I leave them there as thought of one day done

-- from Solution Passage, Poems 1978-1981 by Clark Coolidge

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idealist.org and "imagine"

nobody@vox.com(tracyshaun) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:19:50 -0800

idealist-initiative.jpg

Idealist.org is kicking off an initiative around community organization. It centers around you and the community and self-organized meetings around the globe... Check it out: http://www.idealist.org/imagine

They're a great organization with a lot of good people. And they just re-launched their website, too.

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QotD: Can't Type It Rihgt

nobody@vox.com(tracyshaun) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:35:11 -0800

What word(s) do you always make a typo in?

When I'm working on code and trying to get the latest checkout I type, "svn udpate"... that UD-pate -- what in the world is that? My left hand's middle finger always beats my right hand's pinky to the keys. At least almost half the time unless I focus and slow down. I've been doing that for at least 10 years now... (before subversion, there was cvs and I did it just as much then).

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Breaking the spell is "mesmerizing"...

nobody@vox.com(tracyshaun) — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:57:33 -0800

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Daniel C. Dennett

An incredibly engaging read, this book starts out with a metaphor for religion in the form of an unlikely virus that effects the nervous systems of ants. It's sole purpose is to drive them to the tops of grass stalks so they can be eaten by sheep. The virus can only reproduce inside the stomach of sheep. Dennett attributes a lot of religious activity to the work of self-evolving memes that find human hosts to replicate, regardless of whether it benefits the human or not...

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