Holy Jeebus!: Saddened by the heat @lessconf is taking over its speaker lineup -
I was just perusing some of the tweets on the @lessconf twitter stream and started backing up through some of the conversations. Jeebus, it’s crazy-town out there. Several people called the guys at Less out for the fact that the speaker lineup for LessConf is all-male and all-white. Additional…
“The discovery, in the early Web browsers, that reasonably-typeset text [that] embedded simple forms and hyperlinks, and came equipped with a “Back” button, hit the biggest 80/20 point ever in the history of User Interfaces, couldn’t have been predicted by anybody; but it’s as true today as ever.” — Tim Bray, “HTML5 and the Web”
When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
— T. S. Eliot, The Metaphysical Poets
This sounds a lot like me. Am I a poet? Why can’t I write any poetry? Or does “poet” and “poetry” mean something broader and the work I do is poetry? Or is Eliot wrong?
I like to steal things from writers.