Rogers Randomness

The Interrogation of the Good

Details: Category: Posey

poetry
class

here is a poem by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Slavoj Žižek:

The Interrogation of the Good

Step forward: we hear
That you are a good man.

In a Quadrangle

Details: Category: Posey

stone
time

Here's a poem by Carl White:

In the Quadrangle

The flag waves, pigeons fly,
People passing by don't see the moment of the stones
Placed by hands long gone.

Caressing, my fingers trace textures engraved by time.
Each movement of the air, each drop of moisture on each pore,
Have modified the mark of mason cleaving with the grain of stone.

Since etched by wind and rain,
Explored by lichen imperceptible
Movement too slow for human eye and still too fast for stone to know.

The cries, the shouts that echoed from each wall,
The tumult of the lists, the music from the horn
Have marked the surface of the stone.

What laughter here, what joys upon this lawn,
What games we played beneath the banners fluttering.

The stones remember all,

And if we take our time, then we can read their tale.

Marketing Hype vs Laws of Physics

Details: Category: Fwacts

Someone sent an me an article from the Economist suggesting that a proposed new version of the USB standard to allow higher power to be taken from (or delivered to) the port would revolutionise domestic house wiring and render the grid obsolete.

Hmm - much hype and minimal basic science understanding is about what you'd expect from a magazine called The Economist.

TTIP and 38 Degrees

Details: Category: Finkin

To Bude this morning to hand out leaflets about TTIP to disinterested passers by. This was a 38 Degrees call to action and I happened to notice there was a meet in Bude and had a free morning so thoght I'd go along.

About half a dozen people turned up, seemingly in two groups who set up tables on opposing sides of The Triangle around which they pretty much clustered and chatted to each other. I thought it might be more useful to try and engage people so grabbed a pile of leaflets and crossed the road to where there was more foot traffic to offer them to.