Archive for February, 2008

area code lookup tool

Friday, February 29th, 2008

For those of you who might be interested, I’ve slapped together a little command-line area code lookup tool. It’s a really simple couple of scripts using grep to locate what you’re searching for. It works on Unix-like systems with bash installed (Linux, OS X, etc).
You can download it here. Follow the enclosed instructions to [...]

daydreams

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

We punish ourselves and others so often for daydreaming. Get your head out of the clouds, Mom says. Be practical, Dad says. Daydreaming is antithetical to industry, production, waking life in the western world.
I suspect there are many kinds of animals that daydream, but there are only two I’m certain of: humans and cats. I’ve [...]

ad hoc

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

AD HOC: Anonymous, Distributed Herd Of Cats
Example: Anonymous.

strange attractor

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

The poem is the poem is not the poem today.
Laudator temporis acti, past and present converge on this hazy winter morning, this sole unremarkable hour, strange attractor saturated with coffee, news and all the little artifacts that mark this hour, this year, this place as identical to and different from any other. Laudator, mark the [...]

the dreaming

Monday, February 11th, 2008

In last night’s dream, a woman said to me, “Dogs are always blameless.”
I flutter between worlds like a sail with torn tabling. In and out, the dreaming, the sun, gravity and history, big gordian cesspools of blah blah blah.
In short: some days I am unbearably heavy, and some I am unbearably light.

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