Mosquito is out,
it’s the end of the day;
she’s humming and hunting
her evening away.
Who knows why such hunger
arrives on such wings
at sundown? I guess
it’s the nature of things.
— N. M. Boedecker, Midsummer Night Itch
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
See you Tuesday!
The annual Samba eXPerience conference was held last May in Germany.
Some of us Samba-folk were interviewed by Linux Outlaws.
From Child’s Garden of Verses
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Bed In Summer
Note: Wilde Roast has moved. They are now in Riverplace (St. Anthony Main) in Picasa’s old space, a couple doors East of Kikugawa. Most places validate parking if you use the ramp immediately to the North (2nd and Bank). I figure we’ll try the new location once to see how it goes and wing it from there. I was down the road at the Aster Cafe Saturday Night and validated parking only cost me $1.
See you on the 14th!
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.
— Robert Frost
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
According to TechCrunch, Apple has exceeded Microsoft in revenue and profit.
There’s this song by The Who that keeps playing in my head,
Smile and grin at the change all around me…
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God’s power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
See you Tuesday!
(Updated) WordPress 3 Complete is out. This is April’s (not the month, the geek) latest publication. It’s a complete rewrite of the earlier editions for WordPress 2.x that she co-authored. This one’s entirely April’s.
It took me longer than expected to read this. There’s a lot of information presented here, and it turns out that WordPress itself is bigger than I had imagined. It seems that there’s a whole culture that has grown up around this stuff, which is good because it means that the environment is rich and the possibilities are great, but it also means that it is easy to get lost. That’s why it’s helpful to have a native guide, and that brings us back to April’s book.
Continue reading April’s Latest Book
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
— Charles Dickens
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
Wasn’t paying attention this month, but the 1st was the first Tuesday, which makes tomorrow (the 8th) the second Tuesday and time for Geek Gather again!
I should really just do scheduled posts for a year or two into the future. That would help prevent some of this last minute stuff.