mick lynch @prawnwarp@oulipo.social

That rhyming is factual: on a holiday in Tasmania, I found lots of food shops with wallaby pastry tart, and I couldn't stomach it, though scallop tarts I was OK with.

I'd had goat, I'd had rabbit and duck, I'd had quails,
I'd had clams, I'd had squid, I'd had fungus and snails.
Oh, so many odd foods I was willing to try,
But I couldn't do wallaby! No, not I!

I thought I'd try it all—from a cook whom I trust—
But wallaby chunks, in a rich flaky crust?
I'm a fairly omnivorous kind of a guy,
But I couldn't do wallaby! No, not I!

Wallaby status: hop hop hop

All I want to do is bang out a rhythm for my dancing grizzly on this old cauldron without goddamn stars crying on us, is that too much to ask

Hi to incoming folks, looking forward to your posts

Program status: purring away happily in box
Programming guy status: TGIF

Program: I don’t wanna go in a box!
I: But it’s a good box. Comfy, and tidy. C’mon, hop in!
Program: waaaaaahahaha
I: *grits tooth, manfully puts program in box*
Program: imma fuck you up

Old saying: managing programming folks is similar to corralling cats. But also programs display this quality.

Post again. Fail again. Post improvingly.

My work this fortnight: putting an old program for linguists to work with corpora into a box - a dorky abstraction for "now this computational apparatus acts as if it's actually that kind of computational apparatus, or in a cloud, or what-you-will"

Good for upgrading without a lot of risk, and that sort of thing.

Human on main

Anyway I am liking it! Probably not a good book for my angry young man days, though it brings thoughts of old passions back to mind. Kind of glad that I’m old now.

Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch: misogynist, or just macho?

It’s a bit of both, I think.

I laid Ilion low with a trick:
Now I’m waiting for you with a stick.
With my wax I put surds
Against big-tiddy birds.
Who am I? I’m Nobody. Think quick!

I sing of that scion of Troy
Whom Juno was wont to annoy:
Watch him carry his dad,
Cockblock Dido— too sad!—
And put up Roman walls: attaboy!

Choosing a Masto locus is no biggy if avoiding a particular glyph is your goal