Dunno what I will put here, especially now that I have moved the links over to the left hand column.
March 27, 2006 - Duncan tries to avoid visiting an old wound
You may have read about the killings in Seattle Saturday morning. It happened about 10 blocks from our house in town.
I had studiously avoided reading about it, since there were so many young people killed. Today I made the mistake of following a link in Seattlest to a Seattle Times article about the mother of one of the dead guys. Funny, when I read the article again it is about the dude, but I read it as being about the mother.
She goes on about how empty she is. Check out this link (registration required) to see how I can relate.
I wish I hadn't followed the link from Seattlest. Mary read me excerpts from the Times article this morning at the coffee table, but I did not 'get it.' Now I have and I wish I hadn't.
I am going for a walk along the shore. Bye.
March 24, 2006 - Duncan enters the reflective world of the web
As you can see from the first link listed prominently to the right, my son Jackson has a personal blog. He also posts at several other sites, which I am too lazy to list or link here.
He did post on Om Malik's GigaOm about the Bedouin culture of using coffee houses with Wifi as Web 2.0 incubators. (Be patient a link is coming).
The original post was linked around the geographic and Internet worlds. Jackson summarized - link coming - the reaction.
In the summary, he was kind enough to mention my comment. On top of that he linked to this page on his own blog (the one linked to the left).
Father and son linking each other's work. What could be better?
March 22, 2006 - Duncan buys a poetry book
I have been touched by greatness. I had an email exchange with one of the writers/owners of USS Mariner. I wrote to suggest they provide a link to Amazon so readers could buy books that they review. A week prior I purchased a book about baseball and statistics, "Baseball Hacks."
I was prompted to write because of a review of a great poetry book about life, baseball and all the things poetry is about, "The Museum of Clear Ideas." The link is to the review and comments. I recommend the review and the discussion highly. The folks who write and post to this blog are really, really interesting and literate. They make me feel better about the future of the world.
After reading the review and the post, I followed the link to Amazon, posted at my suggestion, and bought a copy of the book. The first book of poetry I have purchased in years.