The computer in my pocket

I am in ceasefire negotiations with the part of me that always said I needed a full size keyboard if I was ever going to write anything. I think the parts of me are almost ready for a prisoner swap as a show of good faith. 

I had that old me over a barrel because he needed me to rescue the notes and tag ends of brainstorms from the ruins of that Ubuntu laptop the he was trying to use to write that Young Adult semi-SciFi time travel novel. *I* had the tech savvy to download the text artifacts. I turn over the e-archeological remains, and in return? I get to post short-format stream of conscientiosness fluff. Pennies down the wishing well. Roses tossed on the current of the Thames. Japanese poetry in English. Memories. Memento mori. 

If the habit forms it could be quick and fun to check in. No plans, just hopes.

Random Acts of Mindness

I went back and deleted a lot of the old posts, and may go back and delete more. 

Posterous deleted me.

A few days ago I got the jump on 'em and deleted my Tumblrs.And my Instagram. 

But here's the thing: there will be more Crowndot as we go forward. I might be able to exercise a few of the remaining creative brain cells. 

Waltz! Don't march!

The producers of hymnals hate 6/8 time. They will do anything to pound the march or the dirge out of a processional or recessional hymn.

The transcription of the Thaxted tune shown above just about requires some higher math. I finally convinced myself that those measures (one and a half beats  plus half a beat plus three-quarters of a beat plus a quarter of a beat) do add up to three beats each. 

Where there's a will there's a way, and they by golly waltzed it!

Tanka, February 25, 2023

Almond trees in bloom --

Like mine their heads have turned white.

Snow on the mountain --

An old man in a white shawl.

And yet -- and yet! -- new Spring grass!

A. K. Chesterton

 Gilbert Keith Chesterson's alter ego? 

Saw this: 

Thought this: 

If 10 shooters kill 6 people is it still a "Mass Shooting"?

 

It is only 29 hours since the 2:00AM shootings in Sacramento yielded six dead and another dozen wounded. 

Early reports said 50 to 70 rounds fired; another said 40 of those little evidence markers on the ground at the scene.

Little is known, and early reports are often spectacularly unreliable. But where there's blood, it's never too early for the Blood Dancing.

You know.  2:00AM on a weekend night. Crowd on the street. A little family friction becomes a spark. Democrat-controlled hell-hole. Rounds are fired (and sights not used, apparently). And . . . 

Next thing you know, the droolers-in-chief are saying the solution to urban violence is to take guns away from Bible-thumping, flag-waving Duck Dynasty fans. 

What did I read in 2021?

 So.

What did I read in 2021?

Means to Message: A Treatise on Truth / Stanley L. Jaki

The Wrong Box / Robert Louis Stevenson

Intuitive Eating / Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

Kim / Rudyard Kipling

True Grit / Charles Portis

The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler

Plain Tales from the Hills / Rudyard Kipling

The Fellowship of the Ring / J. R. R. Tolkien

The Two Towers / J. R. R. Tolkien

The Return of the King / J. R. R. Tolkien

Leap of Faith / Gordon Cooper (well the first half is okay…)

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: Folklore of the Old Plantation / Joel Chandler Harris

New Stories of the Old Plantation / Joel Chandler Harris

Roughing It / Mark Twain

Out of the Silent Planet / C. S. Lewis

Perelandra / C. S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength / C. S. Lewis

The Jungle Book / Rudyard Kipling

The Second Jungle Book / Rudyard Kipling

The Aeroplane Boys in Flight; or, A Hydroplane Roundup / John Luther Langworthy

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone / J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince / J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / J. K. Rowling

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / Persian Quatrains translated by Edward FitzGerald

Our Mutual Friend / Charles Dickens

One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Cosmos Under God / Robert Godwin

The Last Mage Guardian (Book 1 of the Guardian’s Compact series) / Sabrina Chase

Dragonhunters (Book 2 of the Guardian’s Compact series) / Sabrina Chase