The theme of today's crowdfunding Creative Jam is Empowerment. Following up on yesterday's post, and the role of the Watt Balance (now called the Kibble balance, in honor of its inventor) in replacing the standard kilogram by defining the Planck constant as precisely 6.62607015×10−34 joule-seconds, I came up with: A watt ( Read more... )

So, ... this is the start of NaNoWriMo -- National Novel Writing Month. I'm not doing that. My track record for writing fiction is rather dismal. I'd be tempted to blame it on the deficiency in imagination associated with Alexithymia, but mostly it's the fact that I didn't do any planning.

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Ysabetwordsmith has posted a Call for Themes, wherein one can suggest themes for upcoming Fishbowls. There are perks for linkbacks.
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(This bit of nonfiction is being written in response to recent events; it also seems to fit the "communication" part of the theme, "Community & Communication", of this month's Crowdfunding Creative Jam)

Someone died recently and left his widow with a problem: his computer's hard drive ( Read more... )

Mostly a good week, though you may note that I have little report on ( Read more... )

Ysabetwordsmith's Poetry Fishbowl is open!. I posted a prompt there.

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I've just paid $10 for "The Cybernetic Sorcerers" by YsabetWordsmith -- you can get yours at The Wordsmith's Forge - Unsold Poetry from the October 2-3, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl. Ysabet is my favorite web poet, by far. Check out her Serial Poetry page and you'll get some idea of why.

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So... a pretty good day. Ok, a good day -- it doesn't need the qualifier. It started with a Hawaiian word: 'ohana, which means "family in an extended sense of the term including blood-related, adoptive or intentional." I like it. Thanks, Callie!

I took a walk, going West on McClellan for a change, which quickly took me ( Read more... )

Now that she's made the public announcement, I can point you at my dear friend pocketnaomi's shiny new website, PocketPoems.net. As webmaster perpetrator, any gaffes in the layout or HTML coding are mine, as is any delay in getting it from a hastily-thrown-up single page to an intricate and beautiful site more worthy of her poetic talents.

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