http://skyer.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:34:03 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/helen-the-king.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/helen-the-king.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/helen-the-king.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:34:03 -0700 Helen, if you but say the a word, your face shall launch the ships of Greece and Troy. Or did you know that? Would it be the right word, or the wrong one? Two princes kneel before you. Prince of spades, prince of clubs. Either could you crown, bu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/helen-the-king.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fad69d135b0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/beneath-the-deeps.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/beneath-the-deeps.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/beneath-the-deeps.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:15:47 -0700 The placid surface of the ocean hides the power deep below, and seems unending while remaining always changing 'neath the surface deep below Up above, those tiny waves so visible. Deeper now, currents are more powerful. they don't seem to change ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/beneath-the-deeps.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a470100a7eafa28000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry emotions http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/unborn-words.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/unborn-words.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/unborn-words.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:10:37 -0700 This poem came to me in two different parts, that don't seem to have much to do with each other, but I can't somehow do them separately. I see the disjoint, belive me. Words, lying, unused in the bucket of my brain. Thoughts, unuttered, fading, d... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/unborn-words.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fad699980a0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> poetry romance http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/pluto-or-not-to-plu-or-something-witier-of-that-nature.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/pluto-or-not-to-plu-or-something-witier-of-that-nature.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/pluto-or-not-to-plu-or-something-witier-of-that-nature.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:46:02 -0700 two years ago, Pluto got demoted from planet to not a planet. this was deathly important to the free world, and was fiercely debated, wtih desprate verbal battles being fought. lives hinged upon this! or so every astrologist on or off planet (actu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/pluto-or-not-to-plu-or-something-witier-of-that-nature.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fad68fc0640005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> names astrology comedian routine http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/lojban.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/lojban.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/lojban.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:10:34 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fae8c03fc9000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fae8c03fc9000b-50si" alt="Lojban" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I speak English, which I believe is the most illogical language possible. spelling is arbitrary, meanings have been sometimes inverted, acronyms count as words. My observation is that English was constructed by the monkeys with typewriters. (the o... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/lojban.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fae8c03fe6000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> languidge. http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/open-source.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/open-source.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/open-source.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:38:29 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fae8c03a5b000b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fae8c03a5b000b-50si" alt="Firefox_wicca" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> "Remember, the bible is closed source."~~~XKCD the copyright vs open source debate rages on in large sections of the internet, both in logical skirmishes, great wars of rhetoric, and the backstabbing rollrickers, but while I agree that I lik... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fa967c4b5e0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> open source online http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/decay-by-degrees.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/decay-by-degrees.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/decay-by-degrees.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 20 May 2008 16:23:04 -0700 "as it developed in England, the jury consisted of "twelve men good and true." although 12 is still the usual number, a lesser number, often six, now fills jury boxes in several states.Today, in all the states, women, as well as men, serve on jur... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/decay-by-degrees.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700fad689cd3a0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> school comedian routine http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/washington.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/washington.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/washington.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 03 May 2008 20:06:23 -0700 I went to Washington D.C., and kept a journal. unfortunately, I grabbed the journal the first day, but forgot it the second, didn't have a pencil the day after, and gave up on the fourth. so this is the first days journal, while I was still full o... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/washington.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700e398f62a360004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> travel http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/true-love.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/true-love.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/true-love.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:07:03 -0700 The other day, someone asked me if I believed in true love. It was in response to my criticism of a book about a couple, where 42% of the sentences used in dialogue had the word love, affection, kiss, or beautiful in them. (I did them math, 42.) ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/true-love.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700f48cf0bbbf0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> romance religion free-will freedom of choice. http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/obsesion-cubed.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Skyer) http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/obsesion-cubed.html?_c=feed-rss http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/obsesion-cubed.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:48:09 -0700 I got a rubiks cube for my birthday. I like the idea of it. I like the concept of an I.Q. test that doesn't depend on literacy, or mathematics. And I like the idea of simple/complex. That’s part of the lure of classic video games for me, a s... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://skyer.vox.com/library/post/obsesion-cubed.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144be4d66a4700f48d0f4f0c0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rubiks cube