Love doesn't just sit there like a stone. It had to be made, remade every day, like bread. -- Ursula LeGuin (Lathe of Heaven)

Programming Zen: http://ping.fm/W706x

When you get the blanket thing you can relax because everything you could ever want or be, you already have and are. http://ping.fm/NLusa

How to get your CEUs and still stay out of Big Pharma's pocket (aka TANSTAAFL) http://ping.fm/sQApc

Getting ready for Poetry@Prose. Totally not nervous.

More than 40 years since the Civil Rights bill, bathrooms are STILL a civil rights issue. http://ping.fm/CH0Dl

Man in drag, Boston tea party, and the Dresden Dolls back on tour: http://ping.fm/sSV48

5 Shortcomings iPhone and iPad need to overcome in the enterprise. Security is the biggest issue for me personally. http://ping.fm/4lBcb

This pretty much sums up why I'm not going to see Eat Pray Love. http://ping.fm/4nksg

What does it say about Cape Wind when the Green/Rainbow Party won't even endorse it? http://ping.fm/Oime4

We have spent all our life living in a house with very dirty windows, so dirty we had no idea any windows were there. http://ping.fm/V8odH

My grief lies all within; / And these external manners of laments / Are merely shadows - Shakespeare, Richard II, Act IV

Still my favorite XKCD comic ever. http://ping.fm/MZWvd

This articles makes a great argument for emphasizing so-called "soft skills" in hi tech. http://ping.fm/FPVjO

Recapturing the soul of medicine. http://ping.fm/xuJgN

Stop the flood of junk mail: http://ping.fm/rRfGc

Oh, the irony: Boston MFA's next free community day is the same day of my surgery! http://ping.fm/clEVs

Oh, the irony: Boston MFA's next free community day is the same day of my surgery! Those not going under the knife should try to make it, though. They're open till 9:45 PM, so no excuses from the fully employed. http://ping.fm/4RWco

A friend has 2 openings (1 jr, 1 sr) for Java developers at the NIH in Bethesda. Great working environment. Send resumes to jobs@zeegee.com.

Internet cops or garbage collectors, either way the pay is bad and the prestige nonexistent. http://ping.fm/Dl5n6

The Cult of the Hawk Watchers at Fresh Pond mall is getting bigger every day.

Happy Geek Pride Day!

Going on an Internet vacation this week -- minimal email, etc. See you next week.

I'm going to start a library of poets the Norton Anthology has never heard of.

Coyote in Central Park. http://ping.fm/6SUh3

New French Anti-Soking Campaign Equates Smoking with Sucking off Creepy Old Men http://ping.fm/MhDwe

Doctor's conclusion: a really icky strain of viral conjunctivitis. He prescribed two kinds of drops and a follow-up in a week.

Dear Netflix: Planned outage at 8:30 pm on a Friday? Rly? What were you THINKING?

No More Taking Sides, An Israeli-Palestinian Story [Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media] http://ping.fm/Pa29Y

The Navy's Fleet of Uber Classified Super Ultra High Tech Ship Cleaning Robots - Roomba - Gizmodo http://ping.fm/ooWql

Live Checking Credit Card Shows the Bad News in Real Time - Live checking credit card - Gizmodo http://ping.fm/cu1td

Our robot friends are everywhere! Smartypants doctors are giving a lecture about them at BWH. http://ping.fm/UQDLu

Every time I read about a project like this, I think of four old ladies with pickaxes and compost in The Fifth Sacred Thing. http://ping.fm/KBr1p

Google Sorry About Buzz Privacy -- InformationWeek http://ping.fm/2Yjiu

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

- Did you go to [your 10-year class reunion]?
- Yes, I did. It was just as if everyone had swelled.
- Grosse Pointe Blank

Credit Card Help: What the new credit card law means for you http://ping.fm/qp2q6

"A carefree (practice) ... means considering anything that happens as natural... There is nothing in your mind that you cannot put down."

Why did it take me so long to find about this? http://ping.fm/oppoZ

Just got an email about a Hitachi on sale... from MicroCenter.

Alewife station, eating popcorn/respite in transit / night sky, car river / and there in a forgotten corner / giant lego, abandoned.

You know she's a good instructor when at the end of the day I'm actually half-sold on ways ways SharePoint can make my life easier.

If we keep our own light selfishly hidden, it will only provide a limited amount of illumination. --Daily Dharma (http://ping.fm/9jRwy)

Set out to henna my hair, but ended up cleaning the bathroom closet in search of the hair-parting brush. Win!

Just had the nicest conversation with a hostess at the Porter Sq Unos. Amazing what happens when you pay attention to people.

Need constricts the heart, but it often serves as a help / and salvation to the sons of man / if they attend it in time. --Anglo Saxon Runes

"I'm not suicidal, I just can't get out of bed" (It's not a depressing song, though). http://ping.fm/ujeKu

Subversive historical fact of the day: "man," as in the Futhark rune "mannuz," originally referred to all humanity, not just males.

Hey, plus size catalogs: how about using models with the bodies you're trying to sell to? (File under fatgirlkvetch)

Can we let go of our need to try to control other people's lives, even in the name of lovingkindness? (see Salzberg, Winter 2009, http://ping.fm/8SGkq)

I am one pissed off fat bitch. Who do I have to screw around here to get a brick and mortar store that carries clothes I WANT to wear?

More evidence of Wordpress's awesomeness: motto on the WP BlackBerry app is "Code is Poetry."

Hello world, give us your gifts.

And the coffee is just water dressed in brown -- Ani DiFranco

And the coffee is just water dressed in brown -- Ani DiFranco

Hartford is still as provincial as ever, but at least Tisane is still here.

Mindfulness is really hard work sometimes--and that's when it's the most important to practice.

"Take just a minute, come and rest here by my side. Let me tell you your own story, let me walk you through your life." http://ping.fm/nZmMv

"So this is going to be Frances's house for the next few hours." / "It's going to be your house, graced with my presence."

And lunch is the answer to all my problems today. No, wait, that's not right...

"From the beginning we are all Buddhas by nature, we only have to realize that fact."

I didn't believe it at first, but it's true. A SoCal school district has banned the dictionary as being too graphic. http://ping.fm/loiiz

A wish given to me which I now pass on: May you be happy. May you be healthy. May the spirit of lovingkindness manifest in all our lives.

Clearing the doorways.

It would be nice if the nice poems came again. -- Aaron Tieger

I believe that art should be used up, worn out, and made new.

Today is the 37th anniversary of Roe v Wade. Let's honor those who came before us by continuing to improve the lives of women.

I went to the reading series at the Pierre Menard Gallery and lived to tell the tale--even enjoyed myself.

I think beef jerky tastes just like a boot/and when I'm on the street, I chew a licorice root -- Spearhead http://ping.fm/VY9DW

"That which yields is not always weak." --Kushiel's Dart

Poison is in the dose.

Haiti needs money, not just prayers

Partners in Health has been in Haiti for 20 years and is responding to the crisis there right now. http://ping.fm/d0ZD9 Please give -- if not there, then Americares or the Red Cross. http://ping.fm/0Doai

Okelle's on Blogger now too

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