At Home in the Upper Valley

Cram 9

ap — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:07:10 +0000

One of my poems has been selected for publication in Cram Volume 9: Poetry In The First, better known as Cram 9. Selected for publication was my poem titled ‘Submission’. I was preparing a letter with questions I had about submitting poetry to a journal. Some of the guidelines for publication seemed unclear to me. Here is an example…and I wonder how you would react to knowing that a journal gives notice that they do not respond to entries unless they plan to publish your poetry. I wanted to be clear with other venues I submit to because some do not accept simultaneous submissions. Anyway, instead of sending off my letter to clarify the submission policy, I wrote a poem, and submitted it elsewhere, to Cram 9!

Advance copies of Cram 9 will be given away, FREE, to people attending The Printers’ Ball at Columbia College, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. The official release party and reading will be on Sat. Aug 14, 7 PM at Cafe Ballou, 939 N. Western Ave. Chicago. I’ll be attending a Perseid Meteor Shower Party in rural VT that eve and will not be able to participate in the reading…darn!

Be sure to check out either of these literary events.

Poetry reading filming for CATV

ap — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:16:10 +0000

A number of us from the poetry writers group that meets at the Norwich VT Public Library gathered yesterday in Sharon VT. The day was hot, flowers were blooming, and words were spinning. We were filmed for a show due to be broadcast on our local community access TV, CATV. Luckily I didn’t throw out my TV yet, just mothballed it. I’m going to want to view this show!

Do you ever read privacy or licensing blurbs?

ap — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:35:06 +0000

…this one from an analytics tool for twitter search says that you retain ownership of your content, but give over rights to SNS Analytics http://w.sns.ly/in every way they have imagined, or not thought up yet…GEEZ..

“While you own all of your own User-Generated Content, you hereby grant us, our licensees of the Applications and business partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit your User-Generated Content for any purpose.

..you hereby grant us, our licensees of the Applications and business partners the right to publicly exhibit, display, reproduce, store, distribute, alter or make other use of videos, photographs, images or likenesses of you, or in which you may be included with others.

..you consent to such uses in **any medium now known or developed in the future**, including photographs, video, slide shows, Internet images or other mediums, means of storage or distribution. You agree that such images and likenesses of you can be used with or without your name. **You give this permission without any limitation whatsoever**”

Waste Reduction

ap — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:07:54 +0000

My college is implementing an enhanced recycling plan. All trash cans have been removed from our offices. Many have also been removed from our public areas as well. We are a full service library. We receive a lot of junk mail that needs to be discarded. We have a print station for students and they do not always leave with their printouts.

I wanted to discard a piece of junk mail. After I removed the plastic wrapper I put the paper in one of our old and large paper recycling bins that was hidden and has not been removed….and I’m hoping that we can keep it.

So my next task was to throw out the plastic wrapper. It sort of fit in a small plastic container meant for our real waste. Some of this must be thought out further. What works for an individual office space will quickly spill over in our public areas, even for recyclables.

Patience please, this blog will be up again ASAP!

ap — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:33:04 +0000

So you may ask, what’s taking so long to rebuild this blog? Well, with a little help from my son, I got my blog up and running again. And then I was so happy with the new features of WordPress, that I just went on and on changing this and that…until I got spammed with the ‘Silence is Golden’ blog configuration spam. Short story is that my blog went blank and the shortest path without a reliable backup, was to rebuild …and that is still in progress. Many old posts and new ones are yet to be ported over….again

What’s the take home message here. Friends should not let friends run old blog sites. It’s much better to upgrade now and then.

Signs of Spring – June in the North Country

ap — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Spotted in Hawley MA

I probably shouldn’t have been biking for two days after this happened

ap — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:34:43 +0000

Says my kid after experiencing yet another bike accident.

But he’s ok. He got connected with a VR hand replacement, and is learning how to use it.

Well, maybe he’ll be better after this cast comes off

ET, I’m Home

ap — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:51:14 +0000

Wow, I finally saw ET. I’m a bit behind on my movie watching A funny thing happened while I was watching the film and taking photos as proof that I watched it. The face recognition on my digital camera did not pick up ET’s face.

Miksang l

ap — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:57:00 +0000

took a Miksang contemplative class at the Shambhala Center in Burlington VT and now can ’see’ things a bit more perceptively. Miksang photography sometimes feels like poetry which is difficult to describe as an activity, but fun and heart opening to do.

Lost woodpile

ap — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:15:00 +0000

This used to be the easiest way to walk to the woodpile. And now you barely know where it is!