Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Screaming
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Vindaloo.
It's not that I want to scream
I just wonder if some day
I will find myself
Screaming
Green Fields
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on
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Vindaloo.
Two million people
In crowded concrete canyons
Searching for green fields
Festooned
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
Festooned with caring ribbons
She avoids our eyes
To His Lips
Written by
on
in
Vindaloo.
He stares out the dark window
Half-eaten sandwich rising to his lips
Without seeing the undead suits
Crowded around him to feast
On the dark corpse of hope
He doesn't consider the taste
Perhaps
It has no great taste
Still
It rises unbidden to his lips
Sometimes you just need to crash (Sleep is good...)
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Vindaloo.
Came home early from Linux Caffe this afternoon to walk Caillou. Turns out Rose was coming home anyway to do it, but oh well. I took him out and then just crashed for the rest of the evening (until around 9:45, when he needed another walk). I would consider doing more work tonight, but I ...
No hacking this evening (Plans deferred again...)
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Vindaloo.
Tonight was going to be an OpenGL-ctypes hacking evening, but Rose's houseguests wanted to take us out for dinner... I can hardly say no to free Persian food, now can I?
I need to work on my rock-climbing technique (Way too much stress on my fingers/forearms)
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Vindaloo.
Had a fun time at rock (wall) climbing this evening. It was my first time. I didn't do spectacularly well; didn't make it all the way up even one 5.6 level run despite spending 30 or 40 minutes halfway up the one run trying to get past the point that seemed to require using one's ...
I'll just get one or two things done before I head down (Dangerous thoughts in the morning...)
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Knight Errant,
Vindaloo.
I've switched to using the new cell phone as my alarm clock. It's with me, has a battery, and doesn't risk having the computer blast Rose out of bed in the morning if I'm not there to catch it. It worked fine, I woke up at 08:00, crossed the room, opened it up, pressed a ...
Test the interactivity too (Comments are broken on the blog here)
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Vindaloo.
I neglected to test the comment-posting feature on the blog. Oops, it's broken and I don't seem to have access to the error logs any more, so can't debug why it's failing. Sorry about that.
New Zope server seems much faster (Thanks Tim!)
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Vindaloo.
Tim transferred the blog here to Vex's new Zope server. Seems much faster than the old server. Yay Tim.
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.