http://dev2r.com/blog robot nirvana. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:14:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Later in the night, the potholed road took its toll on the bus with a flat tire. He gingerly stepped out of his berth, careful not to wake the woman. Which didn’t work as fumbling in the dark for shoes has never proven to be an easy task, ever. She ... http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=218 There exists an awkward time of the evening in places of communal transit and accommodation (cheap hostels, for example. Also - dorms, trains without private coupes, red-eye flights, weddings of spouse's friends) when people with inadequate acquaintance between each other make tentative gestures and use phrases that indicate an overwhelming ... http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=212 The bus started, and on the way out of the frontier town, it took on the additional services of being a local shuttle – it picked up people at small towns along the way and dropped them off at other seemingly smaller towns. The local townsfolk who entered and departed ... http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=207 He embraced the fine yellow dust that now permeated his clothes, his skin, his breath. He had traveled through the dusty landscape of a part of his country that was as foreign to him any other land thousand miles away. He had soaked in the strangeness of the people and ... http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=192 Havasupai Canyon, June 2010 [slickr-flickr id="79006859@N00" type="gallery" tag="havasupai" sort="date" direction="descending" size="medium"] http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=188 Testing out the new SlickrFlickr plugin for Wordpress. My photoset of portraits on Flickr: [slickr-flickr id="79006859@N00" type="gallery" tagmode="all" tag="portrait" sort="date" direction="descending" size="medium"] http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=169 Implacable and red the Desert lay siege Upon the Island of glass and neon In waves of heat And shimmering white. On these shores of perpetual war The weary traveler His head bowed, eyes lowered, Hair bleached, skin brown Remembers Her damp tresses, Those moist curls of invitation; Out of reach, black. http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=166 The cold metal against the lower lip, the exhalation before the first puncture, his eyes darting downward from looking at themselves in the mirror -- and then it was through. He had thought the first stitch would be the worst; he was right. It did hurt. After the needle drew ... http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=150 As the ferry left _____ harbor, the clouds were beginning to roll in. When the ship finally turned and belched its way out through the tangle of masts, an insubstantial rain had started to fall. The weekenders had scurried to their cabins by then, eager to catch up on sleep ... http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=147 Roger Waters with 3 songs from DSoTM and a huge flying pig balloon, Smashing Pumpkins playing 'Today' the heaviest I've heard, and Bon Jovi belting out his usual hits -- all on one stage on the same day, nothing gets closer to musical nirvana than this. Dave Matthews and John ... http://dev2r.com/blog/?p=146