brainstorms

Wednesday September 07, 2005

ebay phish

nice phish, just showed up in my non-sun mailbox. fooled me for 10 seconds.

I have not received any item from you, what happend, I've sent you the money, now were is my item? If you don't Respond Now I will contact ebay and I will report you, I will also go to the police !

[oh, please please go to the police. :)]

375 that's my number...

from clive thompson's [blog] the snobbery of ipods, part 3, a neat statistic:

Q: how many songs does a digital music player contain on the average?
A: 375.

[it turns out 50% of players hold less than 100 songs. given apple's 53% share of the market, that may mean a lot of people are using 512 meg shuffles]

[musical suggestion: toots and maytals, 54-46, that's my number, in roots of reggae, 1991]

abandoned to fall [a poem]

in new orleans,
shutters are useless now.
there is nothing
behind the wall.

there are no lives,
no jazz,
no hope
that is real.

there is only
great loss
pontchartrain tears
and ghosts
and one question
above all

why, please tell
we were abandoned
to fall.

new orleans, 1718-2005.

[image from the corner of chartres and ursulines. oz/98]

[lightly revised. this amateurish poem is as close as i can get to write about the loss of a city i visited and photographed many times. alas i do not know many of the other cities and towns devastated by katrina.]