Writ of Mainprize

One of my favourite poems is the karmic irony of a faded and forgotten king:

Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whos frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my words, …

O.k I admit it.. I didn’t notice that Mountain Equipment Co-op stopped carrying the Bernoulli jackets — you know the ubiquitous Gore-Tex cycling jacket that nearly everyone wears (or the very similar lower cost non-waterproof version, the Venturi? (now Super Microft)). This probably happened over a year ago too… Now I’m looking to maybe replace my Bernoulli because it’s starting to get a few too many tears and grease stains. And what does MEC come up with as an alternative? The Zik (…who was the ad-wizard for …

Oh boy! It’s +5oC and the Easter Parade is this Sunday (March 27). It’s going to be cold, cold, cold! You can be certain that I will be wearing very many layers under my kilt… Screw tradition!
Anyways, if you are interested, check out the Black Water Pipe Band website for the particulars.

This isn’t going to much of an entry — more of a test of my ability to follow the editing and submitting process.  As you can imagine, I’m very new to this world but when James asked me to do it, I thought it could be fun.  I don’t have any agendae except to wonder and hmmm and cogitate.  I’ve often tried to have a journal of thoughts but my hand writing is either too slow or too unreadable and I quickly lose the drive to keep it up to …

I’ve been thinking about different ways of conveying reams of information in a more navigable manner, and I stumbled across an alternative search engine site, KartOO. Under the hood, the engine is a meta-search engine that uses other search engines. However, the neat thing about KartOO is the graphical display of information as a pseudo road-map with sites linked by categories. I probably won’t switch from Google just yet, but KartOO definitely has some cool ideas about how to convey information in a non-traditional fashion. …