Give Me Back My Identity
I am not a data point. I am a human being. I am not the customer who buys anime, computer hardware, and books on Linux. I am not the customer who sends flowers to my mother-in-law in Brooklyn. I am a...
View Articlean extremely short poem
what do you do when the one thing you have been waiting for all day is denied to you? Sleep and hope that tomorrow brings better luck
View ArticleLife
In our recent move, my wife and mother were on a mission to get rid of as much junk as possible as I’ve been labeled by them as a pack rat. I saved this poem from destruction. I don’t remember anything...
View ArticleA Haiku
First winter’s snowfall; Flakes falling from a dark sky; Morning: All is white.
View ArticleHaiku 2: In Reponse to a Discovery
Photographic You; Previously avoided; Now in so many!
View ArticleWaves
Life seems to be a series of waves that I ride until they crash on shore. Then I wait for the next one and have another go at it. I’m not talking about life fundamentals – those are on a much slower...
View ArticleMid-Feb Snow Haiku
Winter’s Returning: Snow falls gingerly downward. Will you stay long, snow?
View ArticleA Wonderful Poem by Jeremy Bornstein
It can be found here, but in case it disappears, I’ve reproduced it. Zero and her Origin Zero, the number said to be discovered Nine times by ancient magicians, was Found again by a mysterious order of...
View ArticleA MOTHER-EFFING SPIDER on a MOTHER-EFFING WATERSPOUT!!!
When I saw this happening by my garage it freakin’ BLEW MY MIND! As a kid who grew up in America, I’d heard about spiders and their proclivities for climbing water spouts via kiddie propaganda – aka...
View ArticleScarlett’s Alliteration
Scarlett was practicing coming up with alliteration for each letter of the alphabet. Here’s what she came up with for “F”. I think the drawing makes it almost like a Shel Silverstein poem. Four filthy...
View ArticleProgramming Update for June 2021
June was mostly Python, although I did do chapter 1 of Scratch 3 Games for Kids with Sam. He really, really enjoyed it and I anticipate doing the challenge problems and maybe chapter 2 in July or...
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