Tanka Challenge 4/22/09
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gurdymonkeyThrowing his head back
A sparrow serenades the
Heedless passersby.
Though perched on rusting barbed wire
His song is all the sweeter.
I am becoming increasingly aware that my camera is producing files my computer is having trouble digesting. I have been trying to upload video to the web - it's like trying to force the contents of a fire hose through a drinking straw. I may have to save the files to disk and give them to Bob at class next week. ( Yeah, I know having a computer built in this century would help, but it's not in the budget just now.)
Two weeks from tomorrow night I'll be getting on a plane to New Jersey. Interestingly, last night as I was waiting for files to trickle from camera to computer, I put on PBS and found myself watching - on the KCSM (San Mateo, CA) affiliate of ALL places - a program called "Race For Open Space" about New Jersey's struggles with development, preservation of open land and revitalization of urban communities. (Some souless bureaucreat went and renamed the Pine Barrens The Pinelands National Preserve? Some of us LIKED the gothic-novel sound of the Pine Barrens. Like Wuthering Heights only flat. And sandy. And, well, piney. Have they changed the name of the Great Swamp too? Oh, thank goodness, no.) Lo and behold, part of the segment was filmed in New Brunswick, where I went to college at the end of the 70's - and where James and Sylvia are holding their wedding. Downtown New Brunswick was a bit seedy in parts when I went to school. Not long after I graduated, Johnson & Johnson moved in, built their headquarters downtown and helped encourage an influx of business. Cheap Thrills Records is, of course, gone, Tumulty's Pub is down the street and in a different spot than it was when I went to school and an internet search tells me that the Olde Queens Tavern (a friend of mine lived in an apartment upstairs) is now the home of something called Blitzburger. However, there was a brief interview with the owner of the restaurant where J&S' reception is going to be - looks like a nice place. You can go home again, but it'll be different. It always is.
A sparrow serenades the
Heedless passersby.
Though perched on rusting barbed wire
His song is all the sweeter.
I am becoming increasingly aware that my camera is producing files my computer is having trouble digesting. I have been trying to upload video to the web - it's like trying to force the contents of a fire hose through a drinking straw. I may have to save the files to disk and give them to Bob at class next week. ( Yeah, I know having a computer built in this century would help, but it's not in the budget just now.)
Two weeks from tomorrow night I'll be getting on a plane to New Jersey. Interestingly, last night as I was waiting for files to trickle from camera to computer, I put on PBS and found myself watching - on the KCSM (San Mateo, CA) affiliate of ALL places - a program called "Race For Open Space" about New Jersey's struggles with development, preservation of open land and revitalization of urban communities. (Some souless bureaucreat went and renamed the Pine Barrens The Pinelands National Preserve? Some of us LIKED the gothic-novel sound of the Pine Barrens. Like Wuthering Heights only flat. And sandy. And, well, piney. Have they changed the name of the Great Swamp too? Oh, thank goodness, no.) Lo and behold, part of the segment was filmed in New Brunswick, where I went to college at the end of the 70's - and where James and Sylvia are holding their wedding. Downtown New Brunswick was a bit seedy in parts when I went to school. Not long after I graduated, Johnson & Johnson moved in, built their headquarters downtown and helped encourage an influx of business. Cheap Thrills Records is, of course, gone, Tumulty's Pub is down the street and in a different spot than it was when I went to school and an internet search tells me that the Olde Queens Tavern (a friend of mine lived in an apartment upstairs) is now the home of something called Blitzburger. However, there was a brief interview with the owner of the restaurant where J&S' reception is going to be - looks like a nice place. You can go home again, but it'll be different. It always is.
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Date: 2009-04-23 03:32 am (UTC)