I haven’t voted yet, decided not to add to the times of the people who are voting before going to work. Since I work from home, I can vote anytime during the day, though I plan on going over in a bit. I received email about how to vote pro-life, sent by the Archbishop who […]
Author: Shelley Powers
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The Historian
Born too late in a strange land, lost with love of a people you can never claim. Living a time you can never know. Touching flyleaf of book as hand of friend. Surrounded by plain walls that can’t keep you safe, from sepia faces with delicate tints. You walk streets you resent because your prints […]
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Open Source is like sex
Open source is a lot like sex: everything works so much better when all the participants aren’t passive. I’ve worked on a variety of projects in the last twenty years that ranged in size from the second largest computer system in the world, to small applications used by only a few people. In this time I’ve learned […]
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No Kansas City Tomorrow
The Techwatch people never did respond to any of my inquiries as to where I’m supposed to be tomorrow; or about the hours and what I need to do, so I won’t be going to Kansas City after all. I tried to volunteer to drive voters to the polls tomorrow, but it was too late. […]
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Places of Energy
I was reading Maria’s post in response to the Ecotone’s Energy of Place. She wrote about living in San Francisco, within visual range of San Quentin prison, with it’s 613 men on death row: I have asked others around me if they found it odd living in this place of plenty – excesses, really – with the largest […]