December 2009
November 2009
“Can we not base our decisions on what does and doesn’t happen in episodes of...”
– Dennis, “It’s Always Sunny” (via labeledbones) (via itsalwayssunny)
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Richard Hugo - “The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir”
Okay, last one. Probably. Maybe. Whatever. (previously and previously)
In this one (again from Kicking Loose the Gravel), we see Hugo leading one of his poetry classes at the University of Montana. He’s trying to help a student improve her work by understanding poetry as “the art of meaning what you say.”
I...
tristn:
“Brooks’s law is a principle in software development which says that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”. It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks adds that “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month”.” — Brooks’s law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only thing more astounding than the immutability of this 35-year-old...
On being specific →
bobulate:
Glenn Gould was renowned for the control he had over every aspect of his playing environment:
He invariably insisted that it be extremely warm. [T]he air conditioning engineer had to work just as hard as the recording engineers. The piano had to be set at a certain height and would be raised on wooden blocks if necessary. A small rug would sometimes be required for his feet underneath...
“I was imagining a kiss sounding more like… I don’t know, something moist and...”
– chokladkakan
That boy is a poet, I tell you.
(via delgrosso)
WatchQuite an Accomplishment
Happy Holidays.
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My first crack at what I’m dubbing The Roethke-Hugo Exercise.
Tracking Nome for Trails
Wavering on dropping “Tamarack” a mid-sized larch, these sources say
I’ve cut rocks tough as blue eyes,
sharp in soft beliefs, and shocked
the kiss you slagged away still bruises
frogs surprised to still be frogs.
Did clouds hug Nome’s bone trees
or curve to cool your...
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Challenge: The Roethke-Hugo Exercise
ADILEGIAN | “Stray Thoughts on Roethke and Teaching” by Richard Hugo
At length, a quote from The Triggering Town, in which Richard Hugo lays out a really cool exercise from Ted Roethke’s poetry classes, fiendishly appended by Hugo.
When our poems were coming in void of rhythm [Roethke] gave demanding exercises, and his finals were evidence of the cruelty in him. I...
Just generally thankful. Yep.
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Great Work Interview – Merlin Mann | The Great...
“Attack with your strengths rather than defend your weaknesses.”
– Chairman Gruber, offering advice that seems useful to pretty much any situation I can think of.
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
mrgan:
I just Instapapered many, many of these.
Me, too, Neven.
If there were a page that best epitomized why I LOVE lists of links (and why I viscerally HATE the way webcocks have turbo-shat on the genre), this would be Exhibit A.
Based on a quick spot check, there’s about two months of unbelievably interesting reading behind that page. (e.g., no way — this was real?!?)
But...
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WatchPhoenix WordCamp 2009 Archives - (Something Something Social Media: The Overdue Minority Report)
My talk at WordCamp last week.
Slides:
Underwater Autumn
Now the summer perch flips twice and glides
a lateral fathom at the first cold rain,
the surface near to silver from a frosty hill.
Along the weed and grain of log he slides his tail.
Nervously the trout (his stream-toned heart
locked in the lake, his poise and nerve disgraced)
above the stirring catfish, curves in bluegill dreams
and curves beyond the sudden thrust of...
