Category Archives: Aside

62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.

62-year old Friar Cesare Bonizzi is no ordinary heavy metal rocker.

Journal of a Voyage out to New Zealand, 1840.

Epuni and the natives took Awhanga before Mr. Murphy, who awarded the pig to the natives, who had brought it from “Waiderop.”… John’s College on July 3rd, 1846: “I hope Mita Uru (Mr. Yule) will look out for a comfortable vessel for you to come up in, at any rate more comfortable than the Swan for she was wretchedly uncomfortable, and I hope that he will not trade along the Coast with you on board and make a floating pig-sty of her, for if he does that will be another source of discomfort as it was with us. [From Chapter X.

Softwares!

Newly born: the softwares page (not much there, but still!!)

IDENTITY CRISIS! Welcome to blog.writeNOTHING.com……

As part of my gradual shift from the cute, but useless/pointless domains I registered at first, to something more sensible (hehe), I have now officially moved this blog from writing.yulebomb.net to blog.writenothing.com — the http://writenothing.com identity is now pretty much self-contained (at least the two main pages it links to are now on the same domain). Yay.

New Footnotes

Not to get into details now, b/c I don’t have the patience to write it all out, but suffice it to say, I’ve moved on to a new footnote plugin that uses mediawiki-style inline footnotes. You put a tag around the note, inline, and it replaces the tag with a footnote, and puts whatever is between the tags into the note at the bottom of the post.

Pages

I have added a few pages to the site as well. one with my writings , another with a list of the plugins I use on this blog, and lastly words .

Welcome to Hell

A letter I wrote to my tut-ees (can you believe they made me a tutor? Muahahahaa) over at the ENAM 170: Introduction to Creative Writing, Spring 2008 class blog .

FUCKFUCKFUCK

FUCKIN fuckers

Just deleted my fucking braided essay as I was trying to post it WTF!!!!11111!

Now to see if I can recover it, or if i have to reassemble from all the pieces rolleyesAt least I have the pieces. And it’ll prolly turn out better the second time (or is this 3rd… or 4th)FUCK(excuse the curses)this [...]

Link: one word. so little time.

as soon as you click ‘go’ the page will load with the cursor in place.

…Don’t click the “also see Poetc and OneCaption” links at the bottom, though.

Link: Unphotographable: a text account of pictures missed

Unphotographable: The Candidate’s Toes A neat blog with weekly(ish) posts, each describing a brief moment in time as if it had been photographed… Great to use as prompts or something for exercises, or even just to get ideas flowing.