ㅁ Fentwithe, he dysbawked, impormevisly dehonged, abrue maffended.
– a pseudo-haiku. This poem is nonsense, in the style of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky. But to be clear, much of my internal monologue is like this.
Month: September 2024
Caveat: Links #60
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“‘Do no evil’ sounded so negative, so they dropped the ‘no’.”
Caveat: Poem #2962 “Surrender”
#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu
ㅁ the alder leaves fade sometimes fail to turn yellow just fall down instead
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #59
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- A discussion the weirdness that is the Alaska state legislature, among other things
- Upcoming Strawberry (“Level 2” AI? Maybe not)
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“My spouse: ‘Do you have a plan for clearing out the garage?’ / Me: ‘I have concepts of a plan.'” – internet joke
Caveat: Poem #2961 “The origin of the text”
ㅁ Words pile up, all jumbled, accumulate. Their meanings collect in semiotic berms, to surround the world's events, but without intention, like rain, until at last a text is produced.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Links #58
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“with tornado brow, and eyes of red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey” – Herman Melville, in Moby Dick
Caveat: Poem #2960 “Last night’s sunset”
ㅁ the sky became large under the clouds' influence drunk on gold sunlight
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #57
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.” – John Rich
Caveat: Poem #2959 “Behind the scenes”
ㅁ Weak demons undertake subterfuges; without magic, they bend reality.
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Links #56
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet (this will only make sense if you’re familiar with a certain old tv and movie franchise).
A quote.
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” – Mike Spooner
Caveat: Poem #2958 “Descriptive passage composed while looking out over the adjacent sea”
ㅁ The eagle has a plan: soar. Fly up, first, with wings' strength - a burst - before settling to a glide, no more.
– an englyn penfyr.
Caveat: Links #55
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- Ancient octopus sex chromosome (sounds like a good name for a band)
- A thing to do with sand at the beach
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“I hope this email finds you, and in the darkness binds you.” – the internet
Caveat: Poem #2957 “The vacuum of deep space”
ㅁ Sometimes I fail to write. The morning plays out, empty. There's no poetry.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #54
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- Berkshire Hathaway (a humongous corporation) has a quite minimalist website
- Give a mushroom a robot body (for fun?)
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The spirit is a bone.” – Hegel
Caveat: Poem #2956 “A very short poem on the subject of a medium-sized slug making progress across the driveway”
ㅁ Slug. Westbound. Ambitious. Or just hungry. Slow.
– a “lanterne” cinquain.
Caveat: Links #53
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- let’s call it a day before we accomplish something meaningful
- I don’t understand this story but I still keep trying to figure it out
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.” – Seneca
Caveat: Poem #2955 “Oneiric visitation”
ㅁ I dreamed that she died. My mother became a ghost. She came to visit.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #52
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The American fascists are most easily recognised by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity … They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” – Vice President Henry A. Wallace, April 90,1944
Caveat: Poem #2954 “Psychology”
ㅁ My mind is a parliament of selves. Angry debates rage on the floor, while the nation, rudderless, careens from rock to rock. The prime minister, having outsourced decisions, resigns. Closed.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Links #51
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Our nation is a nation of immigrants. More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands.” – Ronald Reagan
Caveat: Poem #2953 “So many shirts”
ㅁ We got many shirts here at our little gift store I spent hours folding
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Links #50
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.” – Terry Pratchett
Caveat: Poem #2952 “That one hole in the roof”
ㅁ Drop! The leak sent water to the bucket which I'd positioned to catch all the drops.
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Links #49
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“There are people for whom talk of consciousness is uninteresting. I wonder – maybe it is not so much uninteresting as it is incomprehensible? Which would be to say, that for those people consciousness is not a thing they actually experience.” – JL Jones
Caveat: Poem #2951 “Trail maintenance”
ㅁ I trimmed some branches that blocked my small trail: too easy, can't fail, so I walked along, cutting, while birds talked.
– an englyn penfyr.
Caveat: Links #48
Here are some links I found interesting- without comment.
- Singapore’s Dutch Rasputin
- Travelogue: Mongolia
- The bitcoin play behind a16z’s moment on the road to DaMAGAscus
An illustration from the internet: a moment in a programmer’s life.
A quote.
“If you were in a hypothetical situation, what would you do?” – JL Jones
Caveat: Poem #2950 “The detaching”
ㅁ I think the silence isn't there. Instead, the world is random sound, but all inside, a constant blare. I think the silence isn't there. A buzzing rules the inner air, all meaning's lost, like sailors drowned. I think the silence isn't there. Instead, the world is random sound.
– a triolet.