blog (May, 2006)
pantomime and palindrome
The road down to K & J's place in West Virginia was wet and winding, but hot soup and homebaked crackers were waiting when we arrived. The next day they baked bagels (breakfast), bread (lunch), and tortillas (dinner). I ground the beans for my morning coffee, with a mortar and pestle that J had carved. They live quality without question.
The mailman hefted two large boxes of seed to the back porch, and they hastened out to meet and greet. Out back they've already got two plots dug, one planted. Plans for grain behind the creek, vines, trees and bees. A place for boarders, the small schoolhouse could be a library...
Room to grow.
We explored local towns and wilderness, walked wordsmithery, were welcomed.
Bucky on disruptive innovation
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-- Buckminster Fuller
(from Dave Pollard, at How to Save the World)
hilltop stream drop
Headed south once again -- twice in a monthspan.
Friends Katie and Joel bought a house in Belington, West Virginia, and just moved in on May Day. Teresa, Nicole and I are headed down there this afternoon to spend a couple days as their first guests. T just finished school and N's got a couple weeks back home from Peace Corps::Philippines.
Maybe we help begin to transform their big back yard into a market garden, and likely techless-talk-trek-touring fun through WV friendly natural wonder.
go home-office, Go Media
Go Media is a print/web design shop in Cleveland doing some very cool stuff.
I briefly met Bill and Chris at their headquarters and house, a new condo on Cleveland's West, at a party for Bill's birthday. Bedrooms on the 3rd floor, kitchen/livingroom on the 2nd, and office on the 1st.
Lean, sharp decor. Their print product, framed -- mostly concert posters -- lines the entrance hallway and the trim (but potent) office.
Some PCs with giant LCDs, a whiteboard (on which was written ~you can stop working when you're dead) a few shelves of books, and a door opening on a small patio where young bamboo strains toward fencehood.
One of many possible dreamlands.
no cuelgue, por favor
I just called a hospital in El Salvador on behalf of our sales department, to try and get a doctor they'd met at a conference on the line. They'd hit a brick wall when the secretary there didn't speak English.
I made some progress (arranged to call back in an hour) but it was ugly. I get nervous and the words don't come out right.
Whereas according to the 2000 decennial census of the population, 9.3 percent of Americans speak both their native language and another language fluently;
Whereas according to the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture, 52.7 percent of Europeans speak both their native language and another language fluently;
-- Senate Resolution 28 Designating 2005 as the "Year of Foreign Language Study"
ambivalent garbologic vocabularist
from a piece of spam i received:
vanishing in headband vow
tame. absurdity. oneself
pragmatic architectural geologic with bassist
sunset emissary the extricate
Latino moderate,! explosion,
squash, entrant an thunderstorm manslaughter attainable harmlessly
headmaster lumberjack of popularize: order nonsense tenderhearted
i was pleased enough to punch-purchase whatever they offered, but found no link to click.