Did Something Curious Really Happen to Joe Ayala?

By way of introduction to Jose V. Ayala, I will read to you a few paragraphs from a biographical sketch written for an issue of the Road Map Series that featured some of his more notable visual works. The biography was aptly entitled “Something Curious Happened to Joe Ayala”, to wit: “In the Sixties he […]

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise(?)

I think its kind of ironic that a lot of people think that only rich people eat lots of meat. Many people being naturally garboso (prideful or snobbish), and in an (somewhat deliberate and ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ way) attempt to give the impression that they’re ‘wealthy’, tend toward mainly animal protein diets. Of course I […]

Ph.Archive.Ubuntu.Com Sucks if you’re in the Philippines

The first few times Ubuntu’s Update Manager downloaded updates for my lappy, everything went fast, smooth and painless. After a few major updates, this thought popped into my head: “Woo, if I connect to the PH archive, things will go a lot faster since the connection’s gonna be inside the same country’s internet infra.” On […]

Burnt-out

No doubt about it, I’m burnt-out. Not in the personal sense, but from the professional perspective. I still produce code, but not as much as I used to, and more because I want to and not because I need to. I used to be a programmer back in the 80’s, when most people who labeled […]

This Dad’s Schoolday Morning Routine

Wake up at 5am with son. (Or get woken up by son  ) First cup of coffee while son takes a bath. Check that breakfast is being prepared. School uniform pressed? Shoes clean? Fire up pc to get email. Second cup of coffee. Put school allowance on study table. Remind son to check school books and […]

Long Distance

surrounded byelectronic susurrations surrounded by electronic susurrations we talk whispering sweet love and raging passion encased in organic curves customized Apollos fondled so readily (so handily) screaming bloody damnation and murder thrown every which way emotion converted to electron and back debating infinite degrees of gray art transformed to math summed back into art multiplied […]

On Microsoft-bashing

Flip…Not everything is bad with Microsoft. Historically, its flaws were the reason us oldie software techies had a source of living. lol! 500 buckeroos (thats philippine pesos) just to change the windows explorer settings because the users suddenly started seeing files that “didn’t used to be there”. Or, someone changed the mouse pointer graphic into […]

early morning wish

if i could freeze all your worries in a single teardrop of early morning dew, so it disappears in sparkling anonymity, and perhaps the whole lot whisked away by early dawn’s last tendrils of cool zephyrs when touched by blissfully peeking warmth of sunlight, then i could, perhaps, soothe your psychic ravines, into gently rolling […]

A Dog’s Life

If we’d been dogs, maybe we’d have spent about 2 to 3 minutes sniffing each other, then spent the rest of the day doing the more important stuff — chasing each other, chasing cats or chickens or each other’s or our own tails. What fun! As it is, most of us go through such unnecessarily […]