Drinkin' Poem

Whiskey spins kaleidoscope
Signaling lost ciphers
Of yesterday’s moonlight.
Tonight, a pale imprint of yesterday,
An inkling of tomorrow creates
A present, and she dreams
Of arms owned and unused by
Me. Today, a pale imprint,
Left on a ice-cracked memory,
A melody played on a forgotten
Instrument’s strings. Sleep and
Awake, for Homer’s rose-dipped
Dawn soon calls.

The Fitz

Reviews: Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald | LibraryThing

Picked up the Pocket Books "Enriched Classics" (which makes the book sound like bark'n'twigs breakfast cereal) edition.

According to the crappy critical analysis section, The Fitz sent Mencken a first-edition inscribed: Worth Reading - "The Ice Palace, "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"; Amusing - "The Offshore Pirate"; Trash - "Head and Shoulders", "The Four Fists", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair".

The Fitz was right. All of these stories recreate the Twenties and its glory, but the first four stories deal with large, universal issues. The others - Amusing and Trash - are bright, airy shorts which float along in testament to The Fitz's storytelling skill, not his literary acumen. ( )

What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis | LibraryThing

What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis | LibraryThing

If in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, Jeff Jarvis contends Google jumped into the blind, half-realized world of Web 1.0 full-sighted and fully aware of the possibilities. Jarvis writes about the impact and power of Google the way a disciple follows a prophet - he's a smart, perceptive, at times skeptical disciple, but a disciple non-the-less.
Jeff Jarvis, a blogger, describes Google's groundbreaking business model - a business model based on fundamental changes in customer expectations and organization, the architecture of the internet, openness, ethics and economy. Jarvis doesn't write a history of Google, he writes a journalistic analysis of its culture from the outsider's perspective, a choice that hurt this books credibility. While Jarvis knows his Google: how Google rankings work, the widespread and at times pointed power of blogs, the mass of niche marketing - I wish Jarvis had a quarterly report. I wish he could point me to a webpage or newspaper article or Google PR report to explain those things. I don't require Jarvis to follow an academic's footnoted thesis, I just like to know where he got the knowledge. A book is a still a book, Jarvis, and it's not searchable or linkable, you said so yourself.
Jarvis spends the last half of his book re-imagining certain industries into Google-esque, internet-based free-markets. Jarvis is an unapologetic proponent of open-source anything, be it wine lists or GM-car design, and interconnecting as much of our lives into the computing cloud as possible. Jervis envisions restaurants where the customers affect the menu, peer-to-peer loans ala Kiva.org for banks, and a nebulous online-aggregated university process. His ideas strike a ring of truth, and sometimes a ring of fear - the old order slips away, the center of today's world will not hold. Jarvis has already found his battlecry: Long Live Google! Long Live the King!