Pick #117

None Other - "I Know"

Pandora Gifts

You can "make a station for a friend" aka "gift a station" on Pandora. Just look down at the bottom of their material and there will be 4 boxes. Click and follow the instructions. It's easy. You can even send the station to yourself if you think you'll like it too. It's a cool, fast, easy, cheap (free) way to give somebody a present they can use over and over again.

Another cool feature is the concert finder. I haven't actually used it with any success (and it failed to pick up on Sarah Mac Band shows), but it looks neat. It's down there on the bottom too. You just click the button and it searches through the artists who populate your stations and it finds out if they're having any concerts near you (recall that you gave Pandora your zip code when you signed up).

Read Your Bible

I think many of us have had the idea that we'd read the Bible cover to cover one day. I was making good progress on it for a while, one book at a time. I'd skip around and read some shorter ones so that I could cross the names off the list of books I still had left to read. In recent months, I've been slacking on this project. Anyway, I came across this article on Slate and thought it was really good. If you've been thinking about cracking the Good Book, peruse that article at your leisure and see if it doesn't put a spark to your propane.

Make Your Own Font

www.yourfonts.com has a cool tool to generate a font based on what you write down on a piece of paper. I recently became interested a little more in fonts after watching the movie Helvetica. Making your own font requires some specialized software and some patience if you don't want to do it through a website. The yourfonts is free and pretty fast & simple. I made one that is my handwriting. I'm not super happy with it...I need to retry while being more careful about how high up on the block I start/finish my letters (that will make sense if you try to do this yourself).

Pick #116

Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl

A Reptile Dysfunction

Sarah's family is using a vacation rentals website to rent out their Tally house until the fall. Today Sarah & I decided that they might want to list on the site that there's a turtle in the aquarium. We thought that maybe somebody might be scared of turtles or just not want one around. That's not so unreasonable...people are afraid of snakes and frogs and lizards, etc. We told her mom. Her mom asked why anyone would be afraid of a turtle. I replied:

"They might have a reptile dysfunction!"

Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca

Les comparto un poema de César Vallejo de su obra Poemas humanos (1939).  Todavía recuerdo partes de ello aúnque matriculé en el curso de Modernismo-PostBoom hace unos 5 años.

Me moriré en París con aguacero,

un día del cual tengo ya el recuerdo.

Me moriré en París--y no me corro--

tal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de otoño.

Jueves será, porque hoy, jueves, que proso

estos versos, los húmeros me he puesto

a la mala y, jamás como hoy, me he vuelto,

con todo mi camno, a verme solo.

César Vallejo ha muerto, le pegaban

todos sin que él les haga nada;

le daban duro con un palo y duro

también con una soga; son testigos

los días jueves y los huesos húmeros,

la soledad, la lluvia, los caminos...

Qué magnífico su punto de vista de "ya recordar" su propia muerte.  Pues, es algo especial poner su muerte durante un jueves de otoño.  Ni jueves ni otoño llegan al fin de sus ciclos...es decir que César va a morirse antes de su tiempo natural.  Es un hombre inocente porque "les haga nada" y a la vez se lo pegaron.

  No conozoco París, pero no creo que yo tenga la habilidad de ver la muerte y no huirla a causa de estar en una ciudad así.  Mucha gente se enamora de París, pero no voy a ser uno de ellos.

  Yo también escribé un poema sobre mi muerte, pero me maté a mi...me ahogé en la espuma del mar.  Tal vez puedo "postar"lo en mi blog en el futuro...si mis lectores quieren leerlo.