Monthly Archives: May 2007

The Centipede with the Mismatched Socks

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 31, 2007

Heck. Read this. My young friend wrote it and it’s real as can be. [tags]jmo, centipedes in your belly, butterflies are bad enough[/tags]

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One Laptop per Child

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 31, 2007

Ethan Zuckerman has been in touch with the One Laptop per Child program since its inception, and he reviewed it in January. Tonight I was privileged to meet Ethan and to hear Nicholas Negroponte speak about the current status and future plans for the program. Negroponte is a big thinker. He wants to equip each [...]

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Bolinas

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 30, 2007

I want to join the Well just to shout BOLINAS, BOLINAS, BOLINAS!  That whole “town that wants to remain anonymous” crap is so cloying and stupid.  There’s good dope in Bolinas, and dopes too I must say.  If you’re ever engaged in something meaningful in West Marin, like a trip to the Audubon Canyon Ranch, [...]

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“Let us paint our faces and speak Helium to the dusk”

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 30, 2007

Enjoy poetry?   Then click on over to Ray Sweatman’s place and immerse yourself in what he has shared with us this month.

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It’s the essay, ese

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 30, 2007

Yesterday’s mail brought an important message from David Isenberg posted here on his blog. This is some really meaty information and deserves a thorough read before comment. When you get there skim down the through the prefatory matter, pause to relish the anecdote about the sailing captain who “got” steam so well that he mounted [...]

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In search of Veneta…

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 29, 2007

Last night the cat went missing. This is unusual. Veneta is a sociable kitty and usually can be found within a few hundred feet of the family. She generally comes when we call her. We know her habits and her ways, but last night she was nowhere to be found. We searched the house, and [...]

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Infinite number of monkeys on this bus

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 28, 2007

as the poems go into the thousands you realize that you’ve created very little. it comes down to the rain, the sunlight, the traffic, the nights and the days of the years, the faces. leaving this will be easier than living it, typing one more line now as a man plays a piano through the [...]

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Tabs from my browser…

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 28, 2007

I do, however, load up on 48 AA batteries at a time which everything I own except the cat seems to require. A Fair(y) Use Tale my personal favorite, Gerald McBoing Boing, or their highly stylized version of The Tell Tale Heart or their adaptation of James Thurber’s The Unicorn in the Garden or the [...]

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