Project Report: Poetry

I started writing poetry in fourth grade. It was, of course, terrible.

I've kept at it, though, and I've gotten a lot better over time. Unfortunately, I've done a poor job of collecting and maintaining my work through the years. T-- gave me a notebook packed with my poems that she had saved, years ago, and at three different times I've pulled together collections of my stuff, but there are big gaps in the fossil record, as it were.

Anyway, I recently spent some time crawling through all the stuff I have, trying to put together a strong archive of my poetry. I talked about the process some in my journal, but the end result is a collection of individual files built on a standard Word template and tagged with some useful metadata.

My goal is to write a quick Python script to upload those files to Google Docs for a more reliable archive, so I won't have to go through the collection and verification process ever again. First I need to collect the poems I don't have in digital form from a handful of sources (most of which are my old scribblebooks), and do my best to get accurate dates on the poems I have.

I don't really have any ambitions to get my poetry professionally published, so I'll probably put together a website to showcase it once I have everything cleaned up and in place.

Status: In development

Further Reading: Gods Tomorrow

This is the transcript of a keynote speech in which an IT guy gives his prediction of the near future.

He's got handhelds (and, essentially, Hathor) fully functional by 2030, and really doesn't consider that a very significant thing. He also throws some funky glasses into the mix, which might make their way into my novels, but probably not.

I've known all along that people shouldn't have to look at their handhelds to get visual data, but there's no way to describe everybody walking around with visors that sounds cool to people who live in a world without them. In other words, I set aside the reality of the situation for the sake of the movie adaptation.