Archive for the 'Rumination' Category

Food, Space, Time, Depth

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Food Trust the Chinese to hit culinary home runs. I stumbled upon Xi’an Famous Foods (http://xianfoods.com/) after getting a haircut in Chinatown. The cumin lamb noodles were fantastically spicy, as the sweat beads condensing on and around my nose testified … of course, the soup was spicy too, but piping hot, which as you may [...]

Gaelyk – Throw Me a Friggin’ Bone

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Trying out Gaelyk for Google AppEngine. So far the setup experience has been … terrible. I downloaded v1.0 of the Gaelyk template. Documentation suggests that you should be able to easily import this into Eclipse; however, no .project or .classpath files are to be found. Surprise surprise! They are present in the v0.7 template zip [...]

Shorty Awards Rigged

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

I suppose it is completely unsurprising that so-called user-nominated awards such as the Shorty Awards are manipulated by the big boys.

Loose Change

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

I flicked a quarter to a guy on the street today. A memory suddenly flashed in my mind – one of those indelible instants. Walking down some street in Cuenca, I saw a beggar sitting quietly by the side of the road. I can’t recall exactly, but he had some disabling deformity. Quietly is important [...]

Not The Same

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

What cost me my life, what turned it into that empty shell, I believe, was something in the light I saw at the bottom of the well – that intense light of the sun that penetrated straight down to the very bottom of the well for ten or twenty seconds. It would come without warning, [...]


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