Tag: sephirot

November’s Eve

In a liquid mirror of smoldering cinder her reflection swiped once across the center, hastily, with a greasy palm born of toil and abandon that November’s eve, the year when time changed direction. From the suction of boundlessness it popped like a champagne cork through the event horizon of a new star’s conception, reflecting inside itself like a water-balloon-snake toy as it passes between a child’s two hands. This night was forever and gone. She,.. I…, am still, yet my body beats a cadence, a wave of chair-dance undulation. Though the music, off in the distance, chants the chorus of many monks. It moves my soul with the passion of any miracle of thunder.

…at which point the snake charmer sits slightly more erect, the hat on his head a perfect pillow of velvety ribbon and magic that stays true even still in full light of daytime’s scrutiny and arrangement. He does not speak. He neither slightly even tosses a glance during the courtship to his betrothed danger-giver, whose fangs hang and form the shape of a reverse-colored cat’s eye beneath his tangled and braided bead-mess of a beard. There is, he often reminds us, no shame in trying to get what you really want. The snake charmer has never lost a single rattle to anything or anyone. Even the trees know not to dare. They don’t want to be the last when they had been, once before, the first.

Slowly, backwards, the snail suddenly slides, singing softly the sorcerer’s song.

She shan’t speak such somberly saturnine seductiveness, still sexless she swoons.

© 2009 Pina Rosana

October morning

a buzzard baited, damp grey sky
moldy peeling painted dream
that quiet October morning sigh
loveless now turned sour
she was pretty once
before she died
a tragic mistake, that final hour,
no one there to hear her scream
her last breath of hope devoured
we still don’t quite know why
too young undone
barely tried
forever cursed on the devil’s ride

© Pina Rosana 2009

close your eyes

kingdoms and countrysides
toil and thunder in rage and revelry
a chasm cuts the cadence of time
my blood burns still ever hot

cosmic space divides
a silent vastness of ruin and renewal rises to form
a washed away trail from forever to now
pursuant, unwavering, i must want you more

burning forests unite in an army of dare
tempered tornadoes gather and break
beasts drip carnage wiles of roaring terror, an execution to berate
yet daydream’s musing still breathes you in

villainous hope sings a mockingbird hymn
cascading a victims chorus of doom
cemented chrysalis sadly swoons
a birthday denied, eternity weeping, stuck in time, one breath

quintessence then shares a secret path
where passage unfolds to rapture
beloved beckoning whisper of light, the one gleaming star in the night
here in the dark, find me now, in a moment of silence, just close your eyes

as the creeks court the streams to the ocean of surrender
the leaf slowly falls to the mother bird’s need
suffering gaze toils outside, the path to nowhere forms an alliance with pain
lonesome heart, look inside, for I am here, quietly awaiting your passion to rise

© 2009 Pina Porceddu

VAX-D

I’m currently looking up info on non-surgical spinal disc decompression using the VAX-D treatment for my dad, he has a herniated disk… anyone tried it? heard of any risks for the elderly or those with a heart condition? I haven’t found anything so far indicating these would pose a risk for this treatment, but I figured I’d throw it out into the digital void just in case something might come back that I hadn’t found.

thanx.

~peace~

Real Estate School Final Exam

I took the school final exam today. I did not feel prepared enough, because I hadn’t completed all the study tasks I had assigned myself. I felt horrible when I woke up and I didn’t want to go. I was rushed and running late. The day was beautiful today, though, thankfully, and that kept me going there even though all I wanted to do was postpone it another week. I hate not doing well on things when I know if I try just a little I can ace them. I honestly was afraid I might not even pass the thing, but I had to tell myself that my study habits would carry me through by process…. and they did. I didn’t do as well as I could have, but I got a 90% and considering how this morning went, that is actually quite good.

I’ll finish my intended studying in the next week and take the State Licensing Exam next week. I will be able to call them and schedule it as of Friday, I was told. So, progress is happening and that is good. And, even though I could have done a lot better, 90% is not bad. I am always my own worst critic, always have been.

zeros and ones…..

I was trying to cheer myself up so I went looking for programming / computer quotes and made a list of these ones that I like. If there is no author specified that is because there was none provided and I wasn’t in the mood for extra homework. The sites are listed at the bottom. I think I remembered to mention them all.

“The only difference between a bug and a feature is the documentation.”

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”    — Donald E. Knuth.

“Error, no keyboard — press F1 to continue.”

“The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.”

“To err is human, but for a real disaster you need a computer.”

“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem you encounter resembles a nail.”

“The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.”
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)

“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.”
(Brian Kernigan) 

“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.” 
(Grady Booch)

“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.”
(Edward Tufte) 

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
(Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899) 

“I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers.”
(Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948)

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.  ~Rich Kulawiec

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.  ~Doug Linder

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.  ~Alan J. Perlis

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian W. Kernighan

To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems – Jamie Zawinski

Optimization hinders evolution.

Computation has made the tree flower.

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

In computing, invariants are ephemeral.

When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out that we do and they don’t.

sources:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640?sort=votes
http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2008/08/17/favorite-programming-quotes/
http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000855.html
http://www.devtopics.com/101-great-computer-programming-quotes/