Blog Poetry

I can't stop! it's too easy! Make poetry with only 'delete' and 'enter' keys!


BALL LIGHTNING by Danae123 (www.ballllightning.blogspot.com)

I HAVE SEEN BALL LIGHTNING.
MY MOTHER WAS ON
THE PHONE AND THERE WAS A BIG BANG
(THERE WAS A SMALL STORM AT THE TIME).
THERE WAS A LOUD HISS
ON THE PHONE AND MY MOTHER YELPED AND PULLED IT AWAY
REAL FAST.
IT APPEARED TO EMERGE FROM THE SPEAKER END
AS A FUZZY ORANGE THING
I LIKEN TO A SPARKLER,
KIND OF BALL SHAPED THAT ROLLED AND BOUNCED TO THE WALL AND LEFT A SCORCH MARK THAT
WAS SMALL. MY MOTHER'S EAR WAS SLIGHTLY BURNED
ON THE TOP AND THE SKIN SLOUGHED OFF.
I REMEMBER SHE WAS ILL A BIT AFTER,
NOT TOO SERIOUS,
BUT I THINK SHE VOMITED.
IT WAS VERY QUICK, A FEW SECONDS OR SO
AND IT WAS GONE.




Word of Truth Summer Camp by Bobby Ramsey (www.summercamp.blogspot.com)

Organist and Columbus native Steve McDaniels
sets the mood in the sanctuary
with a freeform musical performance that mixes reggae with traditional spirituals.
Proud parents file into the sanctuary, and director Joann Hassell opens the evening
with prayer.
So begins the graduation ceremony of Word of Truth summer camp on 13th Ave. in Columbus. After opening remarks, the audience is hushed
as 5-year-old Renaldo steps up to the microphone, gets a prompt from his teacher Ms. Hassell. He looks around for a moment and then shouts with a lisp,
“Genesis! Exodus! Leviticus! Numbers! Deuteronomy! Joshua! Judges! Ruth! First and Second Samuel!”
And so Renaldo finishes off a long list of Bible books,
all to the beat of the music. In their turn,
every one of Renaldo’s classmates takes the microphone and displays his or her knowledge
of the books of the Old Testament. That’s right, this is a pre-K class,
and some of them have memorized books all the way up to Esther and Ezra. Next
Mrs. Cantrell’s 1st to 3rd graders stand up
and take the stage. They get in a marching formation in front of 9-year-old Samuel,
their drill sergeant. He sings the cadence,
“We are the books of the Bible… We are the four gospels…”
Then his classmates sound off in turn, “Matthew! Mark! Luke! And John!”
1st graders Victoria and Jazmin stand near each other and exchange glances
and giggles during the song, having become best friends during camp.
3rd grader Anias sits down and rests from his earlier solo musical performance. These
are just a few highlights
from the Word of Truth camp graduation,
which took place last week.

Dust Off… by Stedelijk
(www.dustoff.blogspot.com)
time to dig the dirt
and listen to the winds


Reasons Unbeknownst by Anonymous Person in San Diego (crackhouse.blogspot.com)

Anderson - LongtailSavagely truncated
Tyranny of Choice - Due
to lack of information. Maybe that's what
google answers are looking to address.
411 specialists, turnaroud. Same with google advertizing.Custom Streams, not mass markets.Filters to get the crap out of the tail.-Six research projects - how does the tail affect the head?Inverse, time is the distribution
bottleneck.-Fractals??!!Minitails, hit amplification, the tail is made up of
mini-tails. Contradiction? -Price elasticity - Botique products cost more.
Fixed cost.-Difference between comodification, pyramid and the
long tail-Secondary markets - Used goods, Gray Goods, Overstock Goods-Watching Lessig watch Anderson, I wonder if this is the first time he's heard about this.-Waste transistors
then, waste storage,
bandwidth now. Excite former exec, Jotspot -
this is a good idea, software longtail. Excel for example. VC's are "freaked out"
about it. Leverage existing longtail
infrastructure!