Random, Haiku, naughtiness, deleteses [updated]

Journal Tomble's Journal: Random, Haiku, naughtiness, deleteses [updated] 1

Journal by Tomble on Wednesday February 04, 2004 @12:33AM

Hello! This JE today is a mixed bag.

I quite like Haikus. Having heard how they work, they struck me as quite neat. I suppose the idea of them being defined by the syllables in each line is sort of like the way latin poetry apparently worked (Iambic pentameter and all that). Also like the idea I read recently (somewhere on /. but I forget who said it) that songs used to be written to templates of sorts, and that if you take any traditional ballad's words, you can successfully fit them to any other traditional ballad's tune. It's a matter of rythm, I like it.

But then I read one day that strictly speaking, Haikus have to have a nature theme. So, I present this little Haiku of mine:

The 2.6 haiku
Great ALSA drivers,
Low latency kernel patch...
-Ooh, look! A penguin.

(Hmm, shame I can't centre that, it'd look more right). But of course, what is nature? I've long contended that the concept of "nature" is an empty one. All things that are natural? How can anything that exists not be natural? Things created by man are ultimately part of nature, as unnatural things clearly couldn't come from natural ones.

OTOH, perhaps its possible to use the term in other contexts. For example, you could suppose that various universal laws are nature, or that certain environments are more "natural" for a particular creature (eg- it's reasonable IMHO to say that it's unnatural for human beings to live in an environment with an excess of food and no predators). Hence my next Haiku, which I have named:

Sexual Frustration Pt 1
Nice arse on that bird!
But now I feel too randy-
Need a cold shower.

No, you don't want to hear "Sexual Frustration Pt 2". But I'd quite like to hear your haikus. Go on, you know you want to.

In a still naughty theme, I found this the other day in our cupboard and felt the need to share it with the /. world. Of course, he isn't currently on my fans list so prolly won't see this, but everybody else can have a laugh all the same ;) Well, supposing you get it.
BTW, (without wanting to sound like a broken record) If you found that amusing, you can do me a favour and give me a comment here (or by email) about my site in general. Anybody who does so wins a snazzy virtual paper hat and my gratitude. (And anybody who manages to successfully name my recent program wins a mention in the credits for it and in its manpage)

(snips out description of disturbing dream I had last night that would make other male readers' wince, and might have people going all freudian on me)

In other news, I deleted all my old JEs going back to the first in May 2002 (when I re-registered). I was getting embarrassed by them. Was considering stopping altogether as it was getting depressing and boring, but I think I'll just change the style (like here) and continue to keep them mostly few-and-far-between. Your're not missing much, this is just by way of explanation, in case you suddenly see this being my first JE (it's just my earliest existing one now).

Ooh! Last minute addition from when I was making myself a snack just now:

Tomble's theory of sandwich orientation haiku
Sandwich with layers-
It tastes diff'rent upside-down.
(Or so I suspect)

(based on a hypothesis I formulated at university that nobody else believed). Food counts as nature, no?

[9/2/2004-Update]: Yes, as I've said elsewhere in the past few days, I've now turned off JE notification messages so I won't hear from y'all, except where you're replying to me. More and more, I was finding my time getting consumed by Slashdot. I didn't make a new JE about the fact because I didn't want to go like some big drama queen proclaiming "Look at me! I'm going! You won't hear from me ever again!" and such. I'm only writing this in case other users I know didn't spot me mentioning it. How would they know where else to look for where I'd gone? So anyway. Bye all for a while.

PS- I take it I was the only one who found anything funny about "Jaws Baps" then? Oh well.

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