Enough bitterness Jun 23, 2007 food & journal Saturday morning and my colazione inglese alla Milanese for Stefano: ciabatta, buttered eggs with basil, sliced tomatoes fried with pancetta. Topped Desire and cocktails Jun 22, 2007 journal We spend a third of our lives asleep and much of the rest being run around by sex. We have scarcely any idea how all this works. Italian notes Jun 19, 2007 Back in Milan now after Crema and Cremona, without Miki, who no longer looks like rejoining me for the drive home. Where in the world do people eat La vita Milanese Jun 19, 2007 Stopping a sfizioso at Fermata Prossima, a gelateria in Milan. Hot afternoon, and a small queue to get into the tiny shop. Outside, two benches Crema notes Jun 17, 2007 journal Travel notes from Crema, Lombardy Cremona notes Jun 16, 2007 journal Travel notes from Cremona, Lombardy Shock of the old Jun 14, 2007 Preserving the 1960s Augment system as a rich source of ideas is The OpenAugment Consortium and The Bootstrap Institute. (Thanks to Dave Thomas.) Pictures from the moot Jun 14, 2007 Pictures are appearing from Paul Mansour’s invitational APL moot in Val d’Orchia last week: Paul Grosvenor Stefano Lanzavecchia Adrian Smith Naming of things Jun 14, 2007 Everything has its own name, but – in Yrp – no more than two or three. Knowing two or three names for a thing – church, kirk from Britain, église Per alta ad astra Jun 14, 2007 I tend to think of Peralta as a constant, stamped in my memory at our first visit. Fiore and Diego have died since then, Ron and Gitte left. … Writing on stone Jun 14, 2007 Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write. Every birth a crime, every sentence life. … Poet appointed dare not decline to walk among the bogus, San Quirico, south of Sienna Jun 9, 2007 Paul Mansour’s APL moot, San Quirico d’Orcia, Tuscany Banquet last night outside Montalcino, after a late afternoon at the hot springs at Bade Poem Without Forgiveness Jun 8, 2007 The husband wants to be taken back into the family after behaving terribly, but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by Barefoot technology Jun 8, 2007 You with your car keys on a chain with a toy whistle, the silver traveler’s cup. Soon you’re going thirty miles per hour through slush and they’re Pavlov’s smile Jun 8, 2007 Worked out why I keep catching the eye of Laura, a woman working here in the Relais Palazzo del Capitano. Every time I do so, I am rewarded with a More talk in Tuscany Jun 8, 2007 Paul Mansour’s APL moot, San Quirico d’Orcia, Tuscany John Scholes of Dyalog on higher-order operators, giving writers access to more results from Today in Tuscany Jun 7, 2007 Paul Mansour’s APL moot, San Quirico d’Orcia, Tuscany Fred, our – condottiere? corriere? – led a party yesterday on a foray to the Florentine APL news Jun 6, 2007 journal & software A day at the APL moot in Tuscany La Vita Nuova Jun 5, 2007 Here we are in Tuscany, homeland of Dante. His collection of sonnets La Vita Nuova (new life) did much for the establishment in European culture of Without elephants Jun 5, 2007 In the mountains, there you feel free. And so we did, visiting Simon Garland and Rosemary Wagner at their home in a mountain village in eastern Next page