BurningbirdI discovered that I’m a Google Scholar. I guess this means that you’ll have to treat me with more respect; call me “Ms. Powers” or perhaps “Lady Burning” (please, not “Lady Bird”) and that sort of thing. I don’t normally jump on all the cool gadgets that come out, but the Google Scholar looks to be […]
Rather than closing The Kitchen we’re moving into a totally self-sustained environment. To that end, I captured a snapshot of the most recent WordPress 1.3a code and have started modifying it to provide administration free group weblog support. This will become, eventually, a group form of Wordform. (My inclination is to separate out the group aspects of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This is not a good day for my blood pressure. Catching up on other weblogs, I found a pointer to this at Head Lemur’s weblog: Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog […]
The Robert Lowell poem Terminal Days at Beverly Farms focuses on the poet’s father’s death, which he dispassionately describes in the poem’s closing: Father’s death was abrupt and unprotesting. His vision was still twenty-twenty. After a morning of anxious, repetitive smiling, his last words to Mother were: “I feel awful.” Loren Webster rejects Lowell’s father meaningless smiles and resigned […]
Many thanks for the birthday wishes. I didn’t have a cake tonight, but I did treat myself to two margaritas when my roommate took me out for dinner. And I’m also treating myself to a whole raft of movies, including some classic sci-fi recommended by a friend. (Speaking of movies, we watched Shrek 2 tonight. […]