messyah

big blue eyes
a trusting soul
that knows its own
chains of history
link by link
forged in a phosphate ladder
of twisted pairs
strange joinings from the past
form the future




-- and just for the record they were like chips of sapphire when he was born. I think they are going to be slate or even hazel by the time he is completely kilned.

the curtain clouds roll back
a glancing ray shines through misty veils
the heavens open
silence on the line
frozen in time
a single beat
and another drifting moment
of
silence on the line

another beat, and another
a steady rhythm starts
with a hitching gasp
a first ragged breath
and a tearing cry out
and in and out and on and on

birds cry in the distance,
happy that the storm has passed
that glancing ray
touches my open eyes
i blink
awake, aware
finally
alive again

tiny bubbles and baubles
a mental lens flare
scatters from
a standing wave
of quantum interference
a haze of possibilities
cast upon the dynamo of history

the fundamental nature of programming by Locke in 1690


The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

i live vicariously through sex and the city.

words flung at you
little shards of me
across my life they're scattered
how many really mattered?
was there one that i forgot
someone was glad they bought?

through hours and days this train is taking me
far off along the horizon and out of my life
into the echo of waiting
that has defined me so many times before
but drawn out, time to think, time to wonder
take a pause and ponder
now
when it matters

i'm in awe. last year, when DARPA ran the autonomous vehicle race, one car went 7.5 miles, and most cratered out in the first mile. This year, something like a quarter of the participants FINISHED THE RACE. That's one year's difference!

24 is awesome, i'm about a third through with it, and it kicks ass.

being stuck in philly sucks, i haven't seen anybody in weeks! :((

the sky is as particularly a lovely shade of blue as possible given that I'm stuck in Philly and the future is blindingly uncertain.

i'm afraid i'm going to have to have ear surgery. :((

work is going fairly well for a project that I have no faith in, but at least i'm having fun.

work has a foosball table, i've been playing every day and practicing new shots in the evening. it's a fascinating game, the more I play the more depth I find in it. it amazes me how one table at a startup can lead to a lifelong hobby, and it also amazes me how much depth there is in a game that most people think is about spinning the handles randomly and drinking beer. Just as an example, the table is carefully designed so that from the goalie of one team, there is *always* a hole in the defending 4 rows of players that is almost exactly 2mm larger than the ball is.

>>> 2-3 years worth of b26 isn't a tradition?? :-)

>> Not compared to the many years of tradition before that. Older
>> tradition always trumps newer,

> Either you're not the king of the universe, or I am too. In which
> case, I declare that older tradition does not necessarily trump newer.

I love open source projects.