marginalia
is the Latin word for 'things in the margin', and refers to writing or decoration in the margins of a manuscript. I am exploring the edges and margins of our world through photographs and writing....from February 5, 2011...
I was too busy writing elsewhere to write here this time last year. So many words, so little time...
Roughly translated...
English • Afrikaans • العربية • Беларуская • Български • Català • Česky • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • فارسی • Français • Gaeilge • Galego • हिन्दी • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • Íslenska • Italiano • עברית • Latviešu • Lietuvių • 한국어 • Magyar • Македонски • മലയാളം • Malti • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk (Bokmål) • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Slovenčina • Slovenščina • Shqip • Srpski • Suomi • Svenska • Kiswahili • ไทย • Tagalog • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • ייִדיש. • 中文 / 漢語
Monthly Archives: August 2008
just checking…
Geek alert! One of the great things about WordPress (that’s the do-dah that makes this writing space possible) is people have been able to bend their incredible creative and geeky skills to writing plugins. They’re useful (often very) mini-do-dahs that … Continue reading
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Open Library
A kind of ‘Open Sesame’ to the Aladdin’s Cave of published books. The way humans are going on we’re soon going to have to open another planet next door just to store the books. Open Library is an ideal option … Continue reading
Posted in book pile, explorations, learning, thinking, tools
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the people yes
A word cloud based on lines from Carl Sandburg’s ‘The People Yes’, created with help from Wordle. I’ve written about the poem previously, and said how it ‘describes me and most of my days’. Of late that has been more … Continue reading
Posted in concrete poetry, writing
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bombed back to the dark ages…
Driven by by the dual forces of my Dad being able to turn his hand to any sort of manual skill, and my paranoia about the world being thumped back to the dark ages, I’m very interested in how to … Continue reading
Posted in explorations, learning, right livelihood, thinking, tools
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lutfisk
When I was a kid we didn’t have tv. Yes, I did have a pet dinosaur. Somehow my parents discovered the local museum (and when I say ‘local’, I mean a 45 minute drive away, in part over unsealed roads) … Continue reading
Posted in catalytic projection, silver screen, storytelling
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spin cycle
Very nice work (romance genre) from the Auckland 48 Hours 2008. Producers Adam Lound and Sarah Woodward, direction by Gareth Van Niekerk and Adam Lound. I haven’t seen the 2008 winner, it must be pretty spectacular to have beaten this … Continue reading
Posted in silver screen
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and life was never the same again…
Things just got better and better and better. Hoo-rah! Twenty years later (and 20 minutes into the future) I’m still lusting after Theora Jones
the terrific threes
I’ve been writing here for three years now, averaging 71 thousand-odd (and some say VERY odd) words, and a published article every 2-3 days. Recently the every couple of days or so is harder to be believed, it’s the old … Continue reading
Posted in authentic self
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