by Jan Bear | Jan 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
It was a quiet day in the Appalachians (?) when our intrepid hero, attorney/seminarian/cassock wearer, came upon a roadside disturbance: In any event, I was moseying along when I noticed a crowd — 10 or 12 people — standing on the side of the road looking...
by Jan Bear | Dec 31, 2004 | Uncategorized
a gap yawns sudden wide — open breaks the world — the blue air floods inside the silk-spun dam — and hurls the Wind the timbred songs of leaves — wings still furled now twitch, begin to long to stretch out, ride the light — breathe, O...
by Jan Bear | Dec 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
Dear Retailers — For the past few weeks I’ve heard again and again that you’ve become afraid of Christmas. Lileks calls it “the holiday that dare not speak its name.” Schools have outlawed red and green decorations; the Post Office issues...
by Jan Bear | Dec 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
No, it’s not one of those nifty quizzes. At a writers’ workshop a while back, the leader, Cricket Pechstein, gave us an exercise, asking to classify ourselves accordiwg to the four elements–earth air, fire, and water. Well, different people took it...
by Jan Bear | Dec 19, 2004 | Uncategorized
The New York Times has an article about how the Mozilla Firefox browser is eating into MS Explorer’s market share. Scott Ott at Scrappleface has hit on the same theme. From the NYT: With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your...