Older blog entries for marnanel (starting at number 864)

Rotary notary

Rotary notary,
Washington Ferris was
building a bridge with a
surplus of steel;
making him famous with
carnivalographers,
since in their business he's
quite a big wheel.

Syndicated 2011-03-16 01:30:49 from Monument

Great movies of the eighties

Syndicated 2011-03-13 21:46:17 from Monument

Pie in the sky when you die

PROTIP: This is a lie.

Syndicated 2011-03-13 16:24:28 from Monument

Fibonacci thing

May
day
may be
more to me
than simply parades:
winter safely out of harm's way
enough for a toss in the hay
or in woodland glades;
winter's gone
upon
May
day.

Syndicated 2011-03-11 23:20:35 from Monument

Tailgaters

A thread on a poetry forum is about "tailgaters": you take the first line of a famous poem, and make it into an often satirical couplet.

Here are some of mine:

Batter my heart, three-person'd God,
And serve it up with chips and cod.

It little profits that an idle king
Should dress up like a lumberjack and sing.

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves?
Protection when greeting my lady-loves.

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
But immigrants aren't welcome any more.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
July the fourth? Not quite. The first of May?

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour.
I need your disinfectant's cleansing power.

Someone else provided this, which I loved:

Something there is that does not love a wall.
But when I crap I like a private stall.

And I read this a long time ago and I forget where:

When I have fears that I may cease to be
I go and make myself a cup of tea.

Syndicated 2011-03-11 18:06:28 (Updated 2011-03-11 18:19:50) from Monument

The missing Question 17

Syndicated 2011-03-11 00:30:52 from Monument

The Grand Index

I have a large number of ideas for software projects. A very large number. So many that I could never hope to implement them all, and the ones I try to implement become distractions from one another.

A therapist once suggested to me that I could make a list of these ideas. I call this the Grand Index. Then, she said, I could decide which to work on, and other people could perhaps take some of the others, and (she said) perhaps I could even become rich from one of them. I think the last part is a little silly: I'm not the sort of person who gets rich from their ideas. But perhaps the Grand Index isn't a bad idea in itself.

Would you want to read it, if I made it?

Syndicated 2011-03-10 15:02:57 from Monument

meme from various folk

Apparently, March is question month. If you'd like to ask me a question, I'll do my best to answer, either truthfully or not. I reserve the right to answer in private or a filtered post if I think that's fitting, and any lies will be bolded. Comments to this post are screened.

Since replying to comments means unscreening them, I'll reply in a separate post later today unless you say in your comment that I can unscreen.

Syndicated 2011-03-08 17:22:34 from Monument

Census meme

In 2011 I am living in a small town outside Philadelphia.

In 2001 I was living in The Yellow House in Arbury in Cambridge.

In 1991 I was living in my parents' house in Letchworth Garden City.

In 1981 I was living in my parents' house in Letchworth Garden City.

People who are older than me have more interesting things to write for this meme.

Syndicated 2011-03-08 16:51:51 from Monument

Two thoughts

I heard a tale about a king
who leapt into a boxing ring:
his left was lacking in the fight;
he had the world's divinest right.

* * *

A cabin in some other land
is like the loving of the Lord;
Or so, at least, I understand:
the love of God is shed abroad.

Syndicated 2011-03-03 21:20:52 (Updated 2011-03-03 21:22:40) from Monument