Author: theazureshadow

My first of four finals is over and done with. No more poetry. Actually, it's the class that I'm saddest to see go (besides Ethics, for which I still have to write a paper). I knew everything I needed to know, but I had a heck of a time analyzing the poem that we were…

It probably says something about me that when I read a headline like \”African Union Official Is Hacked to Death in Darfur,\” I immediately think \”Blasted militant nerds….\”

There are many things in life that have eluded me: the perfect phrasing of a poetic line, that uncanny ability to fold one's tongue into knots that was so vogue in elementary school, the satisfactory completion of a culinary experiment. But tonight I was pleased. Tonight I cooked a never-before-(personally)-attempted dish. A simple salmon linguine.…

\”In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.\” -Dan Simmons, Hyperion (I'm not sure if this offends anyone, but I thought it was a very good and legitimate use of profanity. Like some profane poems, it…

\”The first temptation of Sakyamuni was desire, but he saw that it led to fulfillment and then to desire, so that one was easy.\” \”Suppose, before they said silver or moonlight or wet grass, each poet had to agree to be responsible for the innocence of all the suffering on earth, because they learned in…

I hate it when I do something stupid that just makes everything worse. I hate everything about situations that make me do that. I hate being angry and not being sure whether I have enough reason. I hate it when people think I\’m in the wrong just because I\’m trying harder than anyone else not…

I just looked at the web statistics for azureabstraction.com, and it surprised me. While the operating systems of people visiting is pretty typical (98.7% Windows), the browser surprised me. Here are browser statistics as found on w3schools.com: March IE 7: 0.6% IE 6: 58.8% IE 5: 5.3% Firefox: 24.5% Mozilla: 2.4% Netscape: 0.5% Other: 1.5%…

   Aaron making a fool of himself + Becky not giving me the time of day + Cami, Jenny, Rusty, Soren, and Nathan leagues away + lots of time to think while not participating in the loss of mind-sense upstairs = madness

Yes, its true. Jesus hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors more than the \”holy\” people of the day—the Pharisees. Do you think that was an accident? The Pharisees, who looked down on those they saw as less \”holy\” than they were, were the very people Jesus despised. The Pharisees were caught up in their…

So now I'm goin' back again, I got to get to her somehow. All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives. Don't know how it all got started, I don't know what they're doin' with their lives. But me, I'm still on the…