Serendipity of Technology Meeting Everything Else

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

Cars are still trying to figure out what to do with technology. Bluetooth interfaces are pretty dorky and the meshing of things via USB etc is dicey.

In my FIAT I abandoned the whole Blue and Me bluetooth mishmosh (a wonderful microsoft invention) and use Siri to start music playing etc. My car has a USB port which is great because it charges and it allows playing through the car’s speakers. If I start playing an album or playlist and then plug it into the USB cable, it usually keeps playing that music. If I just plug it in though, it starts playing from the list of songs, at some random place.

Usually this is annoying and I will tell Siri: “Siri, play Paul Simon playlist, shuffled.” or something similar. And she does.

Today I was driving home in this veritable white out and was really thinking more about keeping my phone charged in case of power outage so I plugged in the cable.

Up came Enya, A Day Without Rain. All right. Let it ride. Then:

  • Dazzling Blue, Paul Simon
  • De Trilport/a Fublaines, Pierre Bensusan
  • De War En Lorda Awten, Burturav
  • Dead March from Saul, Alfred Eschwé
  • The Defiler, The Hobbit
  • Den Toppede Hone, Burturav
  • Desperado, The Eagles Continue reading →
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That sort of day

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

Went to work in snow, came home in what amounted to a white out and have done a couple rounds of shoveling to keep up with the plowing.

When I couldn’t find my collection of Robert Frost poems, I indulged myself and got another collection which also had prose by him in it. I found this:

On “Birches”

(Old Knower): The tide of evil rises. Your Ark is sailing and you make me a last-minute allowance of a single plant on board for seed. (It would have to be two if animals, or there would be no seed.) Well, let it be a tree –– Birches. Don’t ask me why at a time of doom and confusion like this. My reasons might be forced and unreal. But if I must defend my choice, I will say I took it for its vocality and its ulteriority.

and then this: Continue reading →

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Early day 13 NaHaiWriMo

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

Inspiration from NYSDOT

Flashing highway sign: •
Ice and snow [flash] Take it slow •
We read and drive on.

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NaHaiWriMo and Abe

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

Happy birthday Abe
No one mentioned you today
but I remembered.

Abe’s not on Facebook
so no birthday reminder
February twelth.

In grade school we’d cut
presidential silhouettes
in February.

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From the Quote Box

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own. – Adam Lindsay Gordon

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