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What happens when you accidentally leave a keylogger tracking your keystrokes while you compose a Facebook message. By Jacob Dodson.

In no great hurry

In order to build
a career
and be
successful,

one has to be
determined.
One has to be
ambitious.

A window
covered
with raindrops

interests me
more.

Seeing is
a neglected
enterprise.

From Saul Leiter, Photographer Who Captured New York’s Palette, Dies at 89, NYT. By Howie Good.

Melody pitfalls

I KNOW – I Can Write a Hit
I – KNOW – I Can Write a Hit
I Know I CAN – Write a Hit
I Know I Can WRITE a Hit
I Know I Can WRITE a HIT

Straight from The Top 5 Melody Pitfalls—and How to Avoid Them, BMI. By Mark Dzula.

Curriculum

Traumatic images,
queer looks,
dangerous texts.

African slave trade: introduction to proof.

Environmental disasters,
face of the land:
terrorism, intelligence and war–

Games and simulations,
advanced taxation,
cyberinfrastructure (the language of medicine)

Shakespeare the dramatist
(art of dying)
Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler.

discrete mathematics: prostitution and vice
major issues in criminal justice.

American deaf history,
human centered requirements,
special populations — thinking about making

power and influence,
options and futures,
boundary
value
problems.

sounds of protest,
vibrations and waves:

introduction to intelligent systems.

Course titles from the course catalog of Rochester Institute of Technology. By Rebecca Charry Roje.

Taxi driver

I like
to imagine myself
as the lion of the road,
prowling
the streets
for prey.

In the pecking order,
taxi drivers
rank pretty
highly;

pedestrians
are like chickens,
cyclists
are the monkeys

and buses
are wildebeests,
grinding along
in packs.

From What I’m really thinking: the taxi driver. By Ailsa Holland.

Definitions

Extremely elderly Benedictine monk
Irrational predilection for performing surgery
Of, like or pertaining to lava
One who habitually enters many competitions

Local judge among miners
Provisional name for a plant whose flowers are unknown
Expression of joy among Arab women
Muscle by which the testicles are suspended

Government by superior firepower or by cannons
Part of a bullfighting arena where the bull makes his stand
Ancient syrupy medicine that is licked off a spoon
Doctrine that the wicked are utterly destroyed after death

Some definitions from The Phrontistery, a free online dictionary of obscure words. By Howie Good.

Praise Yeezus.

And it works.

It works because it’s beautiful
You either like it or you don’t
There’s no reason why it’s beautiful.

Either it moves you too,
Or it doesn’t,
And that’s that.

It’s all the same shit,
It’s all music —
If you like sound, listen.

From a review by Lou Reed of Kanye West’s album, “Yeezus”, The Talkhouse, 2 July 2013. By Charles Githua.

One of the things about working on capital cases all your life is that you keep things in proportion.

Unless
you’ve got
an execution date,
it can damn well wait
until Wilf
has had
his bedtime story.

If there is
an execution date,
Wilf
will understand.

From an interview with Clive Stafford Smith in ‘My Family Values,’. By Ailsa Holland.

The Rules

Trust no one.
Keep something back
Not everyone is subject to rules
Don’t walk away
Don’t let go of the cliff
There are clues everywhere
All rumours are true
Trust no one, least of all yourself
Don’t look back
There is no such thing as truth.

Taken from Meg Rosoff’s What I Was, 2007. By Angi Holden.

Of the farm

The shrubbery
in the terrace gardens
has so many
great contrasting colors.
The yellow barberry
has turned a russet shade,
the boxwood is browning a bit,
and the teucrium remains dusty green.
Most trees have dropped their leaves,
but there are still some holding on.
The orange trees in the distance are gum,
whose leaves stay on quite late.
All of the boxwood will soon be
covered over
with burlap
for the winter
to protect them
from damaging winds
and heavy snow.

Photo captions from More Stunning Shots Of The Farm by Martha Stewart. By Kelly Jones.