Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын

A fortunate man,
now safe from pain,
having lived his life well.

(December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008)

Dumb Girl

From the Valley
girl expression mute
she leaves stop sign

left Cherokee flying
before me

I Kent stop.

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 三

三
Two cylinders fire and there is a sound;
what is the sound of one cylinder?

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 二

二
Which way does a squirrel jump?

麼暗 Mo.an: Motorcycle Koan 一

一
Repairing a bike,
why's the repair
what you do last?

The Brand - Wúwúwúwúwúwú

The day they drove you to my town
and all my smiles were singin'
The day they drove you to my town
and your horns were ringin'

I went:
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah!

Casmerodius albus

Sigh not cypress
less regret
egged on egress
white egret.

麼暗 Mō.àn: Motorcycle Koan

麼暗
Mō.àn

Motorcycle Koan

English (moan /moʊn/)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moan

Noun
1. a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or even pleasure (as in the sound made when hearing a pun or Motorcycle Koan)

Verb
1. to make a moan or similar sound
2. to complain


Cantonese (mo1)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/麼
麼
1. interrogative final particle (note that with sufficient repetition, it is some times the final particle, depending on where you stop==> mo an mo an mo an mo ... ).
2. insignificant, small, tiny

Mandarin (an4)
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/暗
暗
1. dark
2. obscure
3. in secret, covert

Atiana

Arrives

Jon Stewart has good comments on traitor's Hit-and-Run

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

ἀπόκρυφα :: Founding Faðer's Stories :: Simón Bolívar

Colombia
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Blanco (July 24, 1783)

When Simón's father asked who planted this beautiful new tree in the garden,

Simón replied, "I did."

However, his neighbors gathered around, chopped it up, & tore it down.

NOTE :: While all these apocryphal stories are obviously not true perhaps they speak to the character of the various founding fathers & their famiglia.

Cyclist Gives D.C. police traitor

Traitor fails to conserve compassion.

“ Novak cited after hitting pedestrian ...
Novak: ‘... The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that.’
... ” —Politico. JONATHAN MARTIN & CHRIS FRATES | 7/23/08 2:02 PM EST
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11985.html

L ast RUNDOWN :: Clear Audit

Galactic Overlord Xenu:
“Within me ∞ voices scream,
‘Pure Dreck,
Toxic Tech,
SCAM!’”

ἀπόκρυφα :: Founding Faðer's Stories :: Carolus Magnus

France
Carolus Magnus (747)

When Charles' father asked Charles about who chopped off their gallic rooster's head,

Charles (who was frankly rather German at the time) replied, "I can not germinate a lie, I'm frankly proud".

Whether germane or galling, his famiglia has been ever since.

NOTE :: While all these apocryphal stories are obviously not true perhaps they speak to the character of the various founding fathers & their famiglia.

His approach to failure

To avoid failure
he did nothing
and it came to him.

Felt

Luxurious
Gluttony
Greedily
Slothfull
Wrath filled
Envy

Pride & Prudence

Justly
Restrains
Courage
Faithfully
Hope for
Love

MINEÐKNOT

anchorlessmeanderingsstreamss
Þreuuunstablemine
ÐFEELÐ

石頭記

A time to cast away stone
or
a time to gather stone together?

A time to every purpose under the heaven

Old man
grey hair
grey beard
blew explorer

from Emerson
he wanted to
turn, turn, turn
left
On the Boulevard.

A bike is
directly
before him

I saw,
his approach.

I'm Baldrick ‽

Favorite vegetable : Bok Choi

Bok Choi ==> Brassica rapa <==> Brassica rapa <== Turnip

"Other traits shared by all Baldricks ... an obsession with turnips."
—Baldrick Wiki

Peaceful Nuclear Energy

Delivery system for peaceful nuclear energy?

Independence Day

Happy 4th of July!

Today is the day we celebrate revolution!
Today is the day we cast off the colonial power of Great Britain!
Today is the day we set an example for others to follow!

The others that followed were:
Rhodesia

Jest Is :: Just Is

Jesse יָהוּ (Yahoo) jarred
Jesus ישוע (Yeshua)
Jewish יהודים (Yehudim).

the Cure

For alcoholism and drug addiction:
magic mushrooms‽
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushrooms

Wouldn't that be bizarre‽

Amelia

Still innever land?

∞無∞

∞無∞
限道
石道
右道

∞道∞

∞無∞
限道
左道
右道

MIST ÐIS MISsed ALL

PAPAVERITASSOMNIFERVM

"Die Religion ... "

Begone burnt sap of poppy
No more liturgical in cense Be
gone from cense or
No more opiate of the masses!

"... ist das Opium des Volkes"

ITEMISSAESTDEOGRATIAS

אהיה אשר אהיה

Ehyeh asher ehyeh
Conatus
Joie de vivre

Kopi Jawa

¿∎ sat down coffee mourning
I ⊣ ∴ new th oug ht knew ∴ ⊦ I
AM coffee bittaי‽

بدعة

In an unchanging world
Unchanging law could be

but bitter, bitter in a changing world

innovation would be better

יהוה

I AM COFFEE - JAVA AM I.

Know Where You Are

Why such rush
to nowhere
when you're there
already?

Small Means Weal

a bad man is poverty
a good man is wealth

time folds years
bend an ear

real wealth is not found
between folds of wallets

we'll only find wealth
between folds of our ears

Mary Perry

♥
58 & 1 day
June 27, 1888 – June 28, 1946

LL Number Type

Intelligence

On September 11, 2001 there were 8 FBI agents who could speak Arabic.

Q. How many are there now?
A. 9‽

Ban Pause

5 step Pas
paws 2 bear arms
Washington bare pause
𝄐

\(^o^)/

Some things
are just
too cute!

We fan Woven

However long warp
Woof is weft,
selvage to selvage is weft to right.

self edge selvegge

oof ōwef
wef ta

Dōm

Why's fate woven
doom
always bad?

Herbergeour

If the harbinger traditionally sought lodging for royalty,
why is the most common current usage for the word
"Harbinger of Doom"?

What I meant to say was ... ahmmm ...

Mem'ries,
may be beautiful and yet,
I find that as I'm getting older,
I simply ... forget ...

George Left Seven Words

George left
some words
for
our laughter

In the Water Month

I've been thinking about 大正六年

News is ...

" ... anything that someone is trying to hide, all else is advertising."
—Lord Beaverbrook as paraphrased by Jeff Fager as paraphrased by me

Free līberālis!

Precisely which of the following
  are those who use liberal as a slur
  against?

liberal

Accurately all‽

Ψikotic :: ðe Economist

Oddly amusing

The Economist by Psikotic

Très Foxey

Baby

Faðer's Day Reading

Faðer's Day Nap

Le Pyre, Smoke Burn, Rising

Evans Road Fire Smoke
Cast ghastly pall
Laural Wraith rising
Cross pallid dawn

Earlee morning expire
Arms exhaust.
My eyes burn
a little more than usual

Māter 's not :,

—Harmon Ronaldson

Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts

Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts
—The New York Times

On supporting basic human rights & the US Constitution:

For:
  Justice Kennedy
  Justice Breyer
  Justice Ginsburg
  Justice Souter
  Justice Stevens

Against:
  Chief Justice Roberts
  Justice Alito
  Justice Scalia
  Justice Thomas

Malfunctioning Traffic Signals :: realHow

Call your state/county DOT and/or city Public Works Department and tell them to fix the broken signal.

If you live in Greenville, NC call:
COG :: Public Works Department
(252) 329-4522 Monday - Friday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm
(252) 329-4300 after hours

NC DOT District / County Maintenance Engineers Directory

District Engineer
Elwood Jarvis
(252) 946-3689
(Washington, NC)

County Maintenance Engineer
Jeff Cabaniss
(252) 830-3142
(Greenville, NC)

NC DOT Division of Highways
Highway Maintenance - Pitt County
104 W Belvoir Rd
(252) 830-3142

Traffic Engineer
1704 N Greene St
(252) 830-3146

Traffic Services Dept.
1712 N Memorial Dr
(252) 830-3493

Malfunctioning Traffic Signals :: wikiHow

How to Trigger Green Traffic Lights

Malfunctioning Traffic Signals

Basically all "demand-actuated" traffic signals.

This example is about a year old, but is typical:

The whole quote is in an article here :
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/072007/07162007/298724
(would be nice if more news organizations had a transportation reporter)

"Dear Kelly: I ride a motorcycle and have frequent problems with traffic lights not working correctly. One example is the intersection of State Route 205 and U.S. 301 in King George ....

The Virginia Department of Transportation sent a traffic signal unit to inspect the signal at State Route 205/U.S. 301. ...

The signal unit found the sensor to be working properly, [VDOT] said. ... Contact Tina Bundy at 540/899-4560 ..." [to tell them otherwise]
—Kelly Hannon's on-line column Getting There in the Fredericksburg, VA The Free Lance-Star

Unfortunately a typical response from a DOT — "We checked it and it works ..."

NO, it DOESN'T work!

If a bicycle or motorcycle doesn't trigger it, then it doesn't work.

That is the definition of it working (both a bicycle and a motorcycle should trigger it), as a rule if something doesn't meet the definition of it working then it is considered to not work, duh‽

Further typical DOT responses along lines of "Well we don't have anything to check it with, why don't you bring your (bicycle, motorcycle, scooter, fill in the blank)".

Maybe if you need to test it to work with a bicycle or motorcycle, you should have a typical bike available for testing instead of using your DOT TEN TON TRUCK!

Careful With That Axe Dr. Eugene

Be careful if you're taking a hospital visit : "... 44,000 to 98,000 Americans die each year ... from preventable medical errors.". — http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/500_err.html

Modern Times :: The Golden Rule

Be fair with others;
then keep after them until they're fair with you.

Alan Alda. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself.
New York: Random House, 2007.

吃了

It's chīlly in the 中國。

Uncle Billy Roberts' Nickle

My mother's proudest possession.

Her favorite Uncle gave her
Before crushing logs
Shifted.

Her brother thought it would be good
To buy a coat for his intended girlfriend.

Lawrence at Home

Long straight road
round corner
Parker's house

Over shoulder,
"Hold tight!"

Watching Honda's speedo climbing.
Superior 750 power bro'.

100, 110, 120
How far would it go?

Home no more,
road ends.

He ŝee a she, whee!

和諧社會

Your Turning Intentions

What you intend - does not exist
What your tyre does - is

If the top of your front tyre is still
you are good

If the top of your front tyre is turning
it is a matter of great concern.

Think Effects Affects Me

Could not care less
what you think

Only care
what you do

Unfortunately

What you think
effects
what you do

In ðis country

In a country badly governed,
wealth is something to be ashamed of.
—孔夫子

Found On Road Dead

Cold metal brush
Explorering crosswalk

Rubbering me the wrong way

Must you need kill me
to reach a red light‽

Calvin

An old man
helped my other mother
with her yard and gardening

He must have been
thirty, maybe forty

Beside him I rode in his old pickup truck
To a cabin on Pea Ridge

Gravel beside the road
Land sweeping down to the distance

Neatly swept floor
Hard packed

Chickens
roam the yard

Children
I could play with

Cornbread
I could eat

Water magically flowing
just by moving a handle
up and down

A special house
out back
for restroom

Later he drove me back.

Atlantic Beach

Written in
the beach
before
high tide

now a
clean slate.

和谐社会

和諧社會
無自由
無是

Celina Branch

Willow dropped her broken limb
in shallow branch

water tugging down
flowed by wrist full

my toy boat caught there
momentum in time
yearning to be passed

pushing past,
forking past,
down stream.

Early Mourning

Through mist i
Thought I saw you standing by the river
Watching geese

Paddling & swiming
Noisily living
Eating & honking
Waddling up the riverbank

Mist cleared, you're gone.

The Seventh Commandment

I find it hard to resist breaking the seventh commandment sometimes. How about you‽

7. Do not mix sacrificial blood with leavened bread.

Classic Reflector•ism

Drug busts lead to arrests
The Daily Reflector
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Thorough Leaving

No portage to kettlehole
in Concord's tree domain

No walking to Wachusett
wilt now let us roam Maine

As twilight leaves the sun set day

As twilight leaves the sun set day
I would tarry on my way

to darker realms of sunless night
live and struggle as I might

the spinning globe of time goes round
silence takes away all sound

and if in slumber I repose
answer only God that knows.

—Harmon Ronaldson

Last Sycling Day

the last turn on
the cycling path
Albert drops out

胡錦濤

Harmonious Society
without liberty
without being!

Write Wright Rite Right Right

Wright
wrong
rite,
right
writes

Wright
rite,
right
writes
wrong

Wright
wrong
writes,
rite
rights

Wright
write,
rite
rights
wrong

Liberty Fire

None bear the torch of liberty
who'd protect us from its flames
by extinguishing its fire!

蒸的蛋在米粥裡

Stale·Mate

Fissure
Chest
Bobs
Away

Do Gain :: Dead Ernest

Without love
there's no revolution!

Surety

Sell liberty for security
& you buy neither

Bi

Buy ignominy face
judgment by physiognomy

Youth Manage

Youth cries
Man dies
age flies

Modern Style

Why anorexic model
so exiguous clad?

Salade asiatique avec le poulet grillé

Wouldn't you know that McDonald's Asian salad is described as:
"A harmonious blend ..."

Super Vain

We will overcome
will we supervene
on well
won day‽

Playin tin

Children are good for a broken heart.
plentyn

Linguine con la salsa del mollusco

Stuffed Green Peppers

Potage Aux légumes De Jardin

nor þ man escaper

some
... times
...... words
......... escape
me

Audacious

American
always there's hope.

Ashbury I

Cultural differences

People ridicule others for different reasons:

For instance:
The Americans resent the French because they ridicule America's President and his foreign policy decisions.
The French ridicule his decisions because they're stupid, and the American President because he's an ass.

The English ridicule the French because the French are overly proud of their culture and cuisine.
The French ridicule English culture and cuisine because they have none.

The English ridicule the French as unmanly because they can't get out from under their women's skirts.
The French ridicule the English as unmanly because they can't get out from under their boy's skirts.

Missed

hearing rider approaching
lone ronin rode mist fade in

breaking, bending, rules
changears hazing now fade out

Penne

Alpenglow

Near sunset,
a warm red light near the mountain's peak
now it's gone.

1915-08-01 - 2005-11-01

We've never enough time,
I still love you.

Alpenglow was the Dictionary.com Word of the Day for Tuesday November 1, 2005.