On Love and Barley Haiku of Basho
Matsuo Basho
Steven Johnson
Greg Iles
Jack Kerouac
Margaret Weis
Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers
Asataro Miyamori (Translator)
Margaret Weis
Jack Kerouac
Margaret Weis, Don Perrin
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand
The Knights of the Black Earth
Margaret Weis, Don Perrin
This is my personal web log. I am speaking as an individual here.
Ubiquitous Web Cams - Part 2
Add streaming biometrics to the vision of crowds with multi-faceted streaming video eyes. The first flatline would make the 6 o'clock news.
Posted 1/10/2003 08:17:00 AM - permanent link to this entry
Ubiquitous Web Cams
The Register has an article about a service enabling bloggers to post from their video-enabled cell phones. Reading that conjured a vision of live video streaming to the world from lapels all over a crowd. How will that kind of coverage change society? Tiananmen Square. JFK. The West Bank. Concerts. Synthesize the feeds into a live 3D navigable space. Be there. Anywhere.
Posted 1/09/2003 08:00:00 PM - permanent link to this entry
Emergent Behavior
Interesting commentary by John Udell on emergent disruptive applications of web services and the nature of trust networks in blogspace. This is timely for me because I'm reading Michael Crichton's Prey, which is about emergent behavior (in nanomachines), predator/prey relationships, etc.
Posted 1/09/2003 02:24:00 PM - permanent link to this entry
Telescope of the Gods
Awesome gravitational lense picture on the Hubble Space Telescope site. This is the best gravitational lense example I've seen. The bundle of billions of stars in the galaxies in the foreground warps the light of distant galaxies hidden behind them into arcs of light. I like the way the arcs and the little quad of local stars emphasize the 3D perspective. When you're viewing events of this scale, events on the local scale pale.
Posted 1/09/2003 02:14:00 PM - permanent link to this entry
Spring rain --
under trees
a crystal stream
the single rivulet
how slowly a pond
lets go
meteor!
quicksilent
into first Light
Blue Dawn
Mars setting
So close -
An owl calls.
Blue Dawn
At dusk the harvest moon
Paints a pine tree
against the blue.
Ransetsu
Crickets winding down,
Cicadas awakening:
The hidden creek.
Blue Dawn
See how a tree-frog is swaying,
Perched on a banana leaf.
Kikaku
Winter-blue sky
In midsummer -
A storm has passed.
Blue Dawn
A pine cone drops
silent
until
Blue Dawn
Blue sky
through aspen leaves:
Summer breeze
Blue Dawn
Aspen grove,
Black on white -
The quiet wind.
Blue Dawn
Lunar eclispe
Sun on the rim
The armadillo forages.
Blue Dawn
In the spring breeze
The snowy white heron flies white
Among the pine-trees
Wide awake:
listening to
your deep breath
Blue Dawn
almost asleep
a breeze wakes me--
northern lights
Tom Lynch
The vast night
now is nothing else
but a fragrance.
sun & moon
in the same sky
the small hand of my wife
the stillness --
soaking into stones
a cicada's cry
at the edge
great heron strikes!
no sound.
Blue Dawn
The stillness;
Peaks of cloud
In the busom of the lake.
