#97: Trickster Fool
Sunday • April 26th 2020 • 4:31:13 pm • 708B
Think of a trickster, a real bad fool. What a great robbery it would be. If your parents sent you to college. And teachers sold disconnected snippets. And called it knowledge. And wouldn't it be convenient, if you could chose you next batch. Wouldn't the...
#96: Unbreakable and Unlimited
Saturday • April 25th 2020 • 8:28:14 pm • 1KB
Captain's Log Supplemental, Quarantine, Day Forty. We are born to run our fingers through infinity, be it Wright Brothers or Yuri Gagarin, Galileo Galilei. It is our right to touch the greatest of heights, and it is our privilege to cheer for each other in...
#95: Flight and Light
Saturday • April 25th 2020 • 5:23:19 pm • 464B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Forty. Everything is all right, except for our flight. But had we been given infinite light, our wings would fail in flight. What gives us the right to learn, and rise to height, is the limit of the duration of our light....
#94: Tomato With Sprinkles
Friday • April 24th 2020 • 10:18:21 pm • 396B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Nine, A vegetable juice out of line. The Tomato with Sprinkles was born of accident, when making my salad, this is how it went; The salad bag tore, and some of the salad went on the floor. But a fistful, fell in my...
#93: Amazing Diet
Thursday • April 23rd 2020 • 9:36:49 pm • 803B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Eight, My salads are working great! I have lost even more weight, and I can't even count how many I ate. It is a marvelous diet of incredible proportions, I don't track my calories, or even my portions. I just make a...
#92: I Miss Old Programming Languages
Wednesday • April 22nd 2020 • 9:46:11 pm • 1KB
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Seven. I can't believe that seven only rhymes with Eleven, and Heaven. Every ten days I get stuck rhyming those two words, and it is just about as fun as petting birds. I was writing Bash this afternoon, I am so full...
#91: The Founder
Tuesday • April 21st 2020 • 10:59:23 pm • 4KB
Startup Accelerators There are two leading Startup Accelerators in US. Y Combinatorand Techstars. Y Combinator Website · Y Combinator on YouTube Startup School Videos What is Y Combinator? How and Why to Start A Startup - Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz (44...
#90: Everybody Counts
Tuesday • April 21st 2020 • 9:29:53 pm • 319B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Six. Today has been an interesting mix, We have to be strong, and go far and long. We can't sit around, looking at the ground, We are each a hero, and none are zero. Everybody counts, care for each other amounts, It...
#89: Every Now And Then
Monday • April 20th 2020 • 7:05:47 pm • 689B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Five. I am not sure that the end of quarantine will ever arrive, so I am preparing to write enough poetry to fill a hard drive. I think I shall begin writing about cats, and then complain a bit about bureaucrats. When...
#88: Buckle and Goat
Sunday • April 19th 2020 • 10:28:30 pm • 729B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Four. I finished a big program, but I am ready for more. So, I am writing a poem, and its always very hard, because I never know what its going to be about. One moment, I am mighty, serious, and athletic, then I sit to...
#87: Rise To The Greatness
Saturday • April 18th 2020 • 8:45:14 pm • 823B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Three. Days pass by quickly, but as all the clocks tick away, we mustn't keep our minds at bay. We each have extraordinary powers, and we can expand our knowledge, in just a few hours. All it takes is a video lecture,...
#86: Iron Horse
Friday • April 17th 2020 • 10:53:05 pm • 1KB
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty Two, I thought about my bicycle, my trail, the morning dew. When there is no gym, I get up real early, and ride on through, It is magical out there, seeing the world from the other side, people stuck in traffic, and...
#85: Super Salad
Thursday • April 16th 2020 • 9:52:06 pm • 440B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty One, I've been programming all day, but now I am done. I coded colors, design, music, a whole ballad, but now my mind has fixed its aims on a salad. I've been trying to invent one that tastes really nice, one that...
#84: Computers Are Slow
Wednesday • April 15th 2020 • 10:49:34 pm • 470B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Thirty, I've been fixing bugs all day, and I feel dirty. Now, that I fixed them all, I must admit, I had a ball. But, computers are slow, My CPU is slower than a BBQ. I tried to build a rhyming dictionary, but it came out as...
#83: The Visionary
Tuesday • April 14th 2020 • 9:34:54 pm • 520B
The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh Extrapolations and Dreams Of The Future Sam Harris Craig Venter Ray Kurzweil Aubrey de Grey Ray Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil: The Coming Singularity Aubrey de Grey A roadmap to end aging by Aubrey de...
#82: Artist and Art
Tuesday • April 14th 2020 • 9:17:02 pm • 841B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Twenty Nine, I spent the day doing Graphic Design. Making art and poetry is quite fun, though with the aid of computers, easily overdone. I've been doing this for so long, that I've learned, that, on computers, brevity is the...
#81: Cogitate and Percolate.
Monday • April 13th 2020 • 11:37:07 pm • 682B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Twenty Eight, It's evening and it's late, Time for another poetic update, I sit here, and yet again, cogitate. It actually feels pretty great, I look forward to my little poetry date. And I always try to really concentrate,...
#80: I write.
Sunday • April 12th 2020 • 10:45:44 pm • 681B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Twenty Seven, Ohh, I waited to write until eleven. It seems late at night, but this is when my rhymes take flight. I admit, I am ready for bed, but I am just going to sit here, instead, and wait for my poem to go ahead. Nuh...
#79: As Good As Fingers
Saturday • April 11th 2020 • 10:49:24 pm • 557B
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Twenty Six, I eat with metal chopsticks. I stopped using forks, to munch my porks. I don't even know how long ago it was, so long ago, I forgot the cause. I own two metal chopsticks, and they work as good as fingers. I use...
#78: Citizens of The World
Friday • April 10th 2020 • 11:42:57 pm • 1KB
Captain's Log, Quarantine, Day Twenty Five, Yesterday, Bernie dropped out. I didn't even try to wait, you can't place this much weight. And what were we expecting? It has always been like this, hit and miss. It is time for all, to rise. Become a Citizen of...
#77: History of the World
Thursday • April 9th 2020 • 9:35:43 pm • 770B
Captain's Log, Quarantine Serserge, Day Twenty Four, I am ready to jump into my bed like a big dinosaur. I am dressed, I am wearing my favorite workout clothes, I stretched left and right, and fluffed up my pillows. For tonight, I prepared, a Bill Bryson...
#76: Peanut Butter and Jelly
Wednesday • April 8th 2020 • 11:01:38 pm • 635B
Captain's Log, Quarantine Fiveever, Day Twenty Three. It was a super busy day, not a moment for tea. And I keep Programming late into the night, typing like a Lion with all his might. This morn, I woke up and made Peanut Butter and Jelly, I've been...
#75: The Courageous
Wednesday • April 8th 2020 • 12:34:35 am • 5KB7
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett English political leader, activist, writer and feminist icon. Known as acampaigner for women's suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until1919 she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the NationalUnion of...
#74: Save The Files
Tuesday • April 7th 2020 • 9:41:32 pm • 878B
Captain's Log, Eternal, Quarantine, Day Twenty Two. Eeeeek! It's raining, I am trying not to be complaining. But the sky is no longer blue, what am I to do? Each time I sneeze, the power goes out, not to say my sneezes are not petite, or that I am ill! No,...