Saturday, November 05, 2005
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
Weather: October 28th: Completely overcast... a sprinkle here and there... relatively warm. A brief sprinkle early the 29th which gave way to beautiful sunshine weather that same late afternoon through to noon the 1st of November... when the clouds decided to make a re-appearance. Temperatures were moderate in the 70°'s Fahrenheit.
The clouds remained... and then it rained... noonish November the 2nd... with breaks of sunshine intermittent... come the 3rd and all was still, till late in the eve when rain came upon our hill... again. O'cast with bouts of sunshine on the 4th. Temperatures have been in the 50°'s to 60°'s Fahrenheit (10° to 16° Centigrade) range.
The 5th was hit or miss sunshine. A "burn day": we took out a permit to burn our leaves and pine needles and such. Lovely early crescent moon in the early evening... "Diana's Bow".
A BLOG I have enjoyed:
Tech news source... digg.com which was started by TechTv regular Kevin Rose. An interesting way to catch up on breaking technology. I caught wind of it when CNet had a blurb that the site was down due to too much traffic!!! I checked it out later, after the addition of extra servers to take care of the increasing traffic load, and like its look and the way articles are ranked by the "diggs" or hits by the readers. Added to my sidebar yet??? Yep.
Wikibooks !!!... especially programming in CSS... for me!!! Note to me: Added to side bar also. The parent website is Wikipedia which I have yet to fully explore.
Stuff I picked up at a relatively new thrift store (Goodwill Industries #38) in Folsom, CA for less than $16.00 USD (total):
... sweet !!!
I looked for blue jeans and tennis shoes and a suit/sports jacket... but alas, no size Moose in stock.
Hooked up my old Macintosh Centris 650 that came to me via my Mother, via my sister, for my granddaughter, Ashley, to use. She's using it to create works of art using Adobe Photoshop 4.0. The program is a bit slow by today's standards, but is suitable for a soon to be 5-year-old's creativity. Now if I could only stop the "nag" screens that pop-up incessantly: [ ! An unknown user is already using a copy of Adobe Photoshop® with this serial [OK] ]... who cares!... and worse, how does "it" know? The prog is registered to the original owner, my sister, and was handed down... not pirated. Maybe a quick email to Adobe would be apropos.
I like playing the "Hangman" and Solitaire games on the Mac to while away the time between screens on my Win98SE box when blazing at 24.0 to 26.4 Kbps on dial-up.
In case I don't post again before the 17th of November: Happy birthday Melanie!!! (52?)
Ashley's birthday is the 30th.
Added my 9th poetry collection to the side bar to bring me up to date prior to posting this BLOG entry. A much larger selection than most... I just got lazy and lumped them in one large HTML document rather than two smaller ones (less work).
Onomatopoeia sighting: (From the customized homepage provided by Google for 10-29-2005) Word of the Day... 'susurrus': a whispering or rustling sound.
23... (The van): Gettin' us where we need to git. Oil change soon... breaks maybe. Gail's van still dead.
Shake me!!!... USGS Earthquake Hazards Program... recent earthquake activity around the world.
BIG Earthquakes... from the Earthquake Notification E-mail service:
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake in the Southeast Indian Ridge has occurred at: 45.27S 96.96E Depth 10km Sat Oct 29 04:05:57 2005 UTC
Location with respect to nearby cities:
- 2205 km (1370 miles) SW of PERTH, Western Australia, Australia
My entries... poetry.com: " Poetry in Motion "...
& Haiku daily contests:
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" The Haunted Wood "... the imagism of an illusory haunt contrived by the machinations of the wind. (Part of the poetry exercise for my part is to increase my vocabulary.) Taffy-Doodles says "meow"
" Listen... "... I show a slight edit here. Forgive my poetic license in the entry. I substituted 'thine' for a 'thy' preceding 'humble' to be more proper in word usage. It didn't occur to me at the time, and I may not have had the 'tiles' to do so anyway had I realized the gaffe.
" The Longest Days "... From the 'tiles' and from the heart, but not from experience.
" Life's Hope "... I missed the deadline and decided not to submit what I had up to that point, but rather embellished the germ of what I had wrought.
" Building Zion "... By now some may wonder if indeed I'm being above board and truly playing the 'tiles'... I am.
" Step on a Crack... "... The 'tiles' unleashed evoked a child's rhyme (and 'Devo' lyric).
" HE Is ! " a Haiku: ... The photo for inspiration was a blazing sun risen over a barely lit sky (or dark filtered sky) with the sun's rays casting reflection upon a dark ocean... giving the appearance of an inverted exclamation point of golden glow.
" Wistfully Silent " a Haiku: ... A photo of an individual standing on a distant hill's ridge... the sky a dappled rose color.
C'ya.
... digg.com
