temp tech update and tests
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wytchcroftthe spare monitor finally works - but only sometimes (i think it was made in 1873!)
and mostly things are too small to read for a blind git like me.
hope to get the new monitor tomorrow or thursday and a more stable network link provided the power settles -
we had a run of mini-outages here again, because - oh, i don't know, it rained or something.
sigh.
sorry if i'm not around as much as i'd like - but for some my quiet is probably a blessing!! ha ha ha!!!! :))
normal service will be resumed etc etc.
edit: continuing the French theme - and since a few people have been posting quotes, here are a few lines by Rimbaud. Rimbaud is a favourite poet of mine, alas his myth obscures his work all too often (but that's his fault really!). I think these lines demonstrate a sensitivity to landscape often overlooked by critics and such. Also it pretty much describes what's outside my window.
L'eau des bois se perdait sur des sable vierges.
Le vent, du ciel, jetait des glaçons aux mares...
Or! tel qu'un pécheur d'or ou de coquillages,
Dire que je n'ai pas eu sourci de boire!
the water from the woodland was lost on virgin sand
the wind from the sky throwing ice over ponds
but like a fisher for gold or shells
still i found a source for drinking*.
.................................
*this a free translation of the last line since Rimbaud earlier puns on fishing and sinning in a way that cannot be easily reconciled in the final 'to say i did not have a source for drinking'.
and mostly things are too small to read for a blind git like me.
hope to get the new monitor tomorrow or thursday and a more stable network link provided the power settles -
we had a run of mini-outages here again, because - oh, i don't know, it rained or something.
sigh.
sorry if i'm not around as much as i'd like - but for some my quiet is probably a blessing!! ha ha ha!!!! :))
normal service will be resumed etc etc.
edit: continuing the French theme - and since a few people have been posting quotes, here are a few lines by Rimbaud. Rimbaud is a favourite poet of mine, alas his myth obscures his work all too often (but that's his fault really!). I think these lines demonstrate a sensitivity to landscape often overlooked by critics and such. Also it pretty much describes what's outside my window.
L'eau des bois se perdait sur des sable vierges.
Le vent, du ciel, jetait des glaçons aux mares...
Or! tel qu'un pécheur d'or ou de coquillages,
Dire que je n'ai pas eu sourci de boire!
the water from the woodland was lost on virgin sand
the wind from the sky throwing ice over ponds
but like a fisher for gold or shells
still i found a source for drinking*.
.................................
*this a free translation of the last line since Rimbaud earlier puns on fishing and sinning in a way that cannot be easily reconciled in the final 'to say i did not have a source for drinking'.
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Date: 2010-02-16 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 10:35 pm (UTC)it's a drag because if i read on the monitor fr for than a short time i get blinding headaches now coz the size of the screen means everything is sort of font sized 4. This is better than earlier in the week though when my monitor was squeezing everything like toothpaste!
was making so many typos from just guessing it was - well it was very silly.
on the other hand i took the time to print some of your sylvia poems over at the library so i could savour them again :))
but i can't do any major length typing or reading for a while.
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Date: 2010-02-16 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 11:09 pm (UTC)And... what a lovely poem-excerpt. Rimbaud is really quite magical. Speaking of poetry... recently some friends asked me who my favorite poets were, and I gave an impromptu reading of a couple of my favorite poems, including two things of yours that I'd saved. They loved them, and asked me who this mysterious poet was. ;)
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Date: 2010-02-17 12:56 am (UTC)well... i'm astonished and flattered and love you even more!
*gush*
:)))
as for the technical stuff - yeahhhh....
i'm a crawl off to bed now and forget about it till tomorrow. sigh.
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Date: 2010-02-17 12:48 am (UTC)man i wish i knew french well enough to read Rimbaud in the native tongue. I can, however, translate an entire chapter of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to french from memory! lol. perhaps you've been using this time to pen more savy sci fi?
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Date: 2010-02-17 01:01 am (UTC)so it was nice to stretch my brain a bit.
as for the sci-fi i finished the story ages ago but there's no point in my trying to proof and type it on a machine that - i - can - *mounting hysteria* - barely - *random Scottish voice of doom* - SEE!
but i'll be back Bro - i'll be back...
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Date: 2010-02-17 01:14 am (UTC)i mainly say that cuz i have a lot of time on my hands, having lost my job last week. Also, I might take some stabs at creative writing in the near future so as to take advantage of this free time.
hey, by the way, is this mott the hoople song in your post a VU cover and I'm assuming if it is and you like it, then i should know about it and i feel like a fool for not. ugh. have you heard the cowboy junkies version of the VU song? good shtuff.
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Date: 2010-02-17 01:17 am (UTC)love mott the hoople.
love the velvets.
guess that's a trinity - ha ha ha!;p
man, losing your job - that blows a big one :((
*sympathetic squinting*
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Date: 2010-02-17 01:19 am (UTC)luckily, i still have this part time gig at america's favorite hardware store: Home Depot. :\
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Date: 2010-02-17 01:33 am (UTC)you've got your own talents to attend to. :))
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Date: 2010-02-17 04:23 am (UTC)hey have you seen In The Loop? i just watched it last night, fantastic!
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-17 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-17 01:03 am (UTC)i've missed you too old chap. :))
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Date: 2010-02-17 04:10 am (UTC)I hope you get your monitor and power issues straightened out right quick!!!
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-17 05:51 am (UTC)Wish you new monitor as soon as possible :) and come back
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:57 pm (UTC)and i miss you too unicorn :))
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Date: 2010-02-21 02:07 am (UTC):))