Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Dad has a blog (Green Party discussions)
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Vindaloo.
Dad came into town today to help Pearl with some paperwork. We got to have dinner with him. Gods it's good to talk with him, sometimes I forget just how important his thoughts are. He's now sharing them on his blog.
Mostly we discussed the predicted ocean acidification effects. This is basically a ...
Not much OpenGL hacking this weekend (But I got some general maintenance done and played a couple of games)
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Knight Errant,
Snaking,
Vindaloo.
I spent much of the weekend trying to decompress from the week and finish recovering from the cold. I got a tiny bit of OpenGL work done, basically getting OpenGL extensions fixed for Win32. No big deal, after all, who uses Windows these days. Still, nice to have it fixed.
Also got the accounting for ...
Finally get the texts page updated (Wasn't I supposed to be working on something else...)
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I finally got around to copying the poems for the last four and a half months over to the texts page. According to my quick count there are 283 poems there now. Really do need to think about some sort of organisational scheme some day.
Kinda weird reading all of those old blog posts. ...
Short Years
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A few short years
In which to love
With such passion
As we might
In hopes that love
Might survive
The sodden grave
Carrying our hopes
Fragile and forlorn
Into fields that we
Will never see
Beyond horizons
We cannot pass
So we might live
Beyond short years
Outstripped Voice
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I wanted to love
Your vulnerable strength
Genius outstripping voice
Alone upon a stage
But your keepers
Cannot see the beauty
In your exposure
And it seems it's they
Who run your show
Lost Millionaire
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Poor lost millionaire
Managed to your doom
By fools in striped suits
Who solved the problem
Of being who you are
Bitter Ashes
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Vindaloo.
Sing not songs of blazing youth
To bitter ashes and white hair
Sing instead new songs
Of bitter age and ashes
Not Behind your Band
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Vindaloo.
Sing your song
Naked in your heart
Not hiding
Behind your band
Fall's Rain
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Vindaloo.
Just cold enough
Fall's rains
To make you wish
For winter
Washing Clean
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Mists pour into sterile canyons
Washing clean stains
Of sterile lives
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.