the only draw back with macos snow leopard is that an application & a printer driver are not compatiable yet…
haven’t been able to print neccessary documents all day & booksmart isn’t openning any of the files i’ve been working on during the last week…
just installed mac osx snow leopard, ate two cold pieces of homemade pizza & drank leinenkugel…
i noticed several tumblrs i used to follow have recently, in the last 2 to 3 months, been deactivated. anyone else notice this trend?
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it’s a mature brand… the counter culture always becomes the culture… i don’t know if [rolling stone] is irrelevant… they’re still in business… they sell more than million copies…
music journalist, kurt loder [in this video] — regarding current rolling stone versus the old rolling stone
listening to freeman dyson discuss poetry, science & global warming…
maybe not a good idea to make a late night latte… insomnia…
great smokies fall courses 2009 just arrived in my inbox. i want to sign up for a class, but that would cost money. i could teach another writing class at the flood gallery fine arts center, & that might earn some money. this quandry may turn philosophical: social objects vrs capital objects?
i hate scanning through my inbox & finding email i haven’t replyed to in 3 months…
in other news, the homemade cappuccino i made this morning using my coffee press turned out surprisingly well…
listening to a public conversation on reinhold niebuhr & the american present…
it’s been quite a busy morning. i had to produce a 10 minute audio broadcast before noon. then there was an unexpected meeting followed by several micro-meetings. now a late lunch with a good book & then on to print design projects.
the dirty little secret to this quasi-productivity… i haven’t checked email yet today. #fb
the south garden patch, mid august: last night i smiled at the single pepper that has grown in one of the three remaining pepper plants. but this morning i discovered it had been a feast for bugs last night. now i’m wearing my sturgeon face. this garden has been an exercise in futility. first i lost all the cabbage & spinach & then most of the pepper plants. the cherry tomato plants appear to be fine, but no blossoms yet.
previous south garden patch updates: [july] [june] [may]
the north garden patch, mid august: this week, within three days, some sort of blight destroyed all the pumpkin, winter squash, zucchini & cucumber. earlier this week i discovered light gray freckles & assumed i was dealing with a plant mold. one treatment includes a ground cinnamon solution. the next day the pumpkin leaves were completely gray & all the blossoms gone. then we used another organic solution, but that didn’t seem to help either. so this morning i cut all the affected pumpkin leaves & discovered one pumpkin plant with green leaves.
the corn suffered another ravaging. i suspect it is from a raccoon i spotted in late july. only the stalks remain & i plan to cut them down later today.
on a good note, the family has enjoyed zucchini, cucumber & beefsteak tomatoes from the north garden. the zucchini & cucumber plants appear to be concluding their yield while the tomatoes are just coming in to it.
maybe it’s too early to tell, but i think i’ve lost all the pumpkin, winter squash, & zucchini plants. the cantaloupe & cucumber plants don’t seem to be too far behind the pumpkin plants. i really suspect it’s a plant mold due to all the rain this area has had recently. the beefsteak tomato & cherry tomato plants appear fine.
no one said organic gardening would by easy.
previous north garden patch updates: [july] [june] [may]
yesterday i had lunch with poet donald hall… sort of… i finished reading his memoir unpacking the boxes during lunch at jack of the wood. #fb
@t_f:
not sure if i like sending tumblr posts to twitter… – any tumblr out there have an opinion on that feature? tumblr.com/xwz2o3b…
i like turning it off, there’s still the option box to send a post if you want.
yeah, i like that option of turning off the ‘send to twitter’ box in tumblr… i like how tumblr allows users to view their twitter feed (like tweetdeck)… it’s a feature ping.fm doesn’t have…
for almost four years i had maintained a blog (almost daily, between 2004 to 2008) & decided to pull the plug. i took a hiatus from blogging & experimented with microblogging & tumble-logging. but after reading this (“…a blog, and trace the narrative of a person, a poet…” [typing space]), i am reconsidering a return to quality blogging (yes, there’s a distinction – within the 130 million blogs worldwide – of quality content). but, i’m not sure if tumblr is a suitable format for blogging.
Getting my hair cut. Man, I wish I had the confidence to pull off a Morrissey flip. Unfortunately, It would probably look atrocious.
no way… just got my hair but too…
Did you cut it short? What will Asheville do without you two long haired dudes? hehe
yeah, well, shorter than i’ve had it in two or three years… i guess it’s shoulder length b/c i can still pull it back in a small ponytail & look somewhat professional at the office…
it’s raining… & there’s not enough coffee to lift my heavy eyelids…
Getting my hair cut. Man, I wish I had the confidence to pull off a Morrissey flip. Unfortunately, It would probably look atrocious.
no way… just got my hair but too…
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vela: So when I started writing a note, I paused after a word I typically misspell. For a second I found myself waiting for the red squiggle to appear. FML
at a poetry reading yestarday afternoon, a poet confessed to loosing seven years of poetry when her computer crashed.
my notebooks contain sketches and drafts. composing poems in analog form first is how i begin the process. entering the content into my mac is considered part of the revision process.not that i’m gloating. notebooks can be easily lost, misplaced or stolen.
still, i suspect yesterday’s prizing-winning poet uses a pc.
Coffeehouse Junkie 