I am a little late to the poetry party. been a busy day.

anyway, post a poem in your LJ after you've read this one...

The Raven
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Christmas tale, told by a school-boy to his little brothers and sisters ( Read more... )

all future posts in this journal are going to be friends-only, and I am going to slowly worm my way back through the archives and friends-lock them all. a few other people have started doing this, and in my current state of mind, I think this is the only logical action. can't be too cautious. yeah, feeling jumpy and paranoid ( Read more... )

on this day in 1521, my people killed Magellan. a chieftain who didn't like the colonization plan took it upon himself to lay the explorer's brains out on rock. that chieftain was named Lapu-Lapu, and there is a drink named after him at a tiki bar half a mile from my mom's house in LA (coincidentally, the only non-Korean bar I know of in LA that ( Read more... )

Salon has an interview with Neal Stephenson. however disappointed I may be with the new trilogy (so far), I figure I'll always be interested in his work because I find his ideas and the way he talks, the things he says, to be pretty compelling. especially when he talks about the craft of writing.

a sample:

One of things you like to do on the ( Read more... )

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it is our considered opinion that it is safe to start making "all your base are belong to us" jokes again, as it can now be considered retro. that is all.

http://www.ntv.co.jp/channel/asx/hkzkt10.asx

Matrix ping pong! hilariously done. you MUST watch this.

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"I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know the world is going to break your heart eventually."
-- the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, after the assassination of JFK

"no, our AIs are smarter than you. at least they can be taught to love!"
"that's right, sucka, I've only got a hate table!"

-- engineer and designer wub

everybody should get to spend a little time working with sarcastic geeks.