i was suffering from a sort of writer's block since last june when i left for switzerland. more accurately, it was writer's low self-esteem. everything i wrote was crap. unfinished crap at that. but i buckled down and finished my first poem in 9 months. it was almost as satisfying as giving birth [or so i've heard]. coincidentally, it was a birthday gift to someone, but as poetry is the gift that keeps on giving, i can share it with all of you too. and p.s. the rest of my collected works currently reside here until their new home is finished.

LACEMAKER

Your art is dying.

All of the dust of the air
is there burning under your delicate smile
while you make what is dying, slowly
tying each knot like a ghost weaver.

Rolling the thread between
your fingers--time
is thinner, finer,
a lingering smell of thick vanilla lace.
Your hand to your lips, remembers

the ache of each tiny victory
and slow caressed symphony,
hands dripping like honey across
everything, across anything but

Yes you are a dead art, slowly being born.

roxy said on 01:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

life got hectic. oh yes it did. but amanda and i have completed our demo proposal for ecscw [european conference on computer-supported cooperative work]. it concerns our toy [currently under development] nimio. isn't that the coolest name ever? ;] nimio is latin for "much" or "far" or "totally awesome".

so i have been holed up trying to get some nimio prototypes manufactured. i sustained chemical burns [w00t] but finally amanda and i got the plastics in order. after a total disaster which "contaminated" all our previous work, i "ripped into go mode" and stayed in the workshop/garage for a week powered by fury with the end result being our beautiful prototypes.

the fun does not end there. amanda and i are submitting a full paper to uist if we can swing it by april 1st. meanwhile [in the next two weeks that is] we have to finish all of the implementation on the berkeley motes [the guts of nimio]. oh did i mention i am also submitting a paper to an in-house conference? this one is all about "information stuff", and how the modern rhetoric concerning information is more important than you think. it should keep you up nights. finally i have to finish my presentation for the chi workshop on social factors in ubiquitous computing that i'm participating in. also effectively to be completed by april 1st. life, my friends, is awesome.

to add a little spice to my clearly mundane existence i will be going back to the east coast in a week. so brace yourselves, because here i come.

roxy said on 02:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)