Tuesday, November 2, 2021

More Tab Dumps

 And a proposed format change

Three more tabs from my Chrome tab saves. I find my own interests very interesting - imagine that! Most tab review/dumps result in further research on the topic. Art and science are the general themes. Not sure who else would be interested in my tabs saves, but I'm having a blast. 

  • web.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/geog140/lectures/earthsunbydate.html - I never fully read these geography lecture notes on The Earth in Space until today. The author is Dr. Christine M. Rodrigue of CSU Long Beach, a professor of geography and an artist. Sections 12-13 very interesting to me: declination of the sun, fast-slow, all of that. Very cool. All earthlings should understand this.
  •  google.com/search?q=earth%27s+precession - Clearly a google search I did not want to forget: "earth's precession". Now I know a more accurate search would have been "axial precession". My brain really wants to know this kind of stuff.
  • artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-whistle-with-your-fingers - I can't whistle through my fingers, and my plan was to learn during the stay-at-home days of the pandemic. Sadly, I did not, but I still want to learn as it would be very useful.
In addition to a small number of tab dumps in a post, I'm going to start adding a short essay. It could be an opinion piece, something I've learned recently or find fascinating, or just whatever. We're talking very short. Maybe even a short poem or single picture. Anyway, no more ending with an ingenuous faux question to the reader, or whatever that rhetorical-ish thing is that some bloggers do. I did it last time, mostly in mockery, but I think it is very silly. If a reader sees a comment box and has one, they know what to do! If reading something I've written sparks an idea or call to action, I would rather they go and do it than sit around writing a bleeping comment. Future "essays" to go at the top, before tab dumps.

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Cleaning My Chrome

A digital cleanse and a walk down memory lane at the same time.

I have dozens of tabs saved on my phone's Chrome browser. I started fresh with no tabs in 2020 just before covid-19 hit, so the tabs are a digital diary of my web searches from that time forward. 

As I save them here, starting from the beginning, they get deleted from my phone. Today I have 88 tabs open. These are the first 5:

Do you save  a lot of tabs? Do you use an app for your lists that is not a "List" app? Did you click on either of the links to learn about analemmas?

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Yahoo! Today I learned this plant is NOT purple lupine. It is echium candicans ("Pride-of-Madeira") and grows all around SF Bay and generally all over the central and south coast of California. Normally I take great interest in learning about plants, but for some reason, I have walked by hundreds of these for years, every Spring, and said to myself "yep, purple lupines".

Please enjoy these Pride-of-Madeira with San Francisco Bay and city in the background.

Echium candicans along SF Bay




Not quite full-bloom Echium candicans

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

 The NaPoWriMo prompt got me back already! I'm a sucker for math and patterns. Two* prompts were offered; I'll accept the "Fib" form :

A six-line form where the syllable count is based off the Fibonacci sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8...  Can go longer or be bell-shaped as in 1/1/2/3/5/8 8/5/3/2/1/1 (two stanzas)


Tesla

New
car,
smell it!
Powerful
technology here.
New century, we have arrived.



Pairing

White
wine
starts off
cool and crisp,
refreshingly good!
Love it with sushi or Thai food.



* The other prompt also introduced me to a new form: the Shadorma - a 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllable lines. For another day!

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

An end and a beginning

Writing daily, inspired by NaPoWriMo this month, has been great, yes, even after 6 days. Six days is also the amount of time it took me to realize that I want to be doing other writing at this time. And I have, just not in neatly, day-sized poems (or whatever you would call my 2021 writing so far). I'm not quitting NaPoWriMo, per se. Daily warm-ups in the form of haiku, clerihew and sijo sounds about right for me - technically a poem-a-day and leaves me more time for my passion projects.


Clerihew - whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

President Joe Biden

Came out fightin’

A Democrat for sure

Let’s hope his policies endure



Monday, April 5, 2021

 Using today’s prompt from NaPoWriMo, inspired by the poem Distance by Dorothy Parker.



Very Close


While distance makes the heart grow fond

His nearness can be charming

I like to wrap my arms around

All night, without alarming


It’s morning, time to let him go

To start the day’s tasks brightly

But if I can (and just for show)

I’ll hug him close more tightly


Sunday, April 4, 2021

 Mask


Covering about half the face, it must cover mouth and nose

Breathable fabric

Multiple layers

   Traps moisture and heat

  And covid virus

 We must wear it to

Save lives by preventing airborne spread of virus when so close


Saturday, April 3, 2021

 For My future Self, a new genre of digital content

Newly revisited and revised

My digital pieces are proof of why

I liked to record these times


Friday, April 2, 2021

 It was the J&J by the way


After My Vaccine

Nothing other than what I expected

So far..

Leaning forward with hope

Braking with caution

(because it’s only been 6 hours)

Grateful lucky happy headache


Bothered and overthinking

What’s happening in my body

Regular flu vax didn’t inspire

Curiosity and creative visualization

I think I can see it, while

The science knows what to do


Thursday, April 1, 2021

Back for NaPoWriMo in 2021


Reviving this ol' blog for my 2021 NaPoWriMo poems. April 1 is the day before my vaccine. My last entry, and NaPoWriMo poem, was April 30, 2015.


Day Before My Vaccine


It’s day whatever of the pandemic year(s)


Writing, working, cleaning, eating, repeating


When this ends, what is it that will begin?


Days go by quickly as nights run long, for ruminating



We want a clean break from all of this, those who can, anyway


Some will never forget the unforeseeable loss, unimaginable pain


We are going through it together, yet making sense alone


Can true answers be found or trusted?



I’ve done the scheduling deed just now


Tomorrow’s my time for The Jab some say


Why not be light-hearted about coming out


And saying Thanks to those who cared, did something about


Ending The Plague of our day