Tommy's Blog

It’s been a while since I wrote a baiku but Fritz linked to one over at Cycle-Licious so here you go:
Rain sprays off my tireYesterday I cursed the heatIs this summer’s end?
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I thought this up on my way in to work this morning, although I managed to ride in during a break in the rain today.
Pedaling through rainA driver passes and looksWe both think: “you’re nuts.”
 
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A manager responded simply “Woot!” to a team-wide mail message today. I have read and heard the term woot (or w00t) for years and, though I have never traced its etymology, I grok its meaning. So I didn’t give the message another thought.
And then replies started showing up from people who had searched for the [...]

Yeah, so the best line in the whole post is the title, and it’s not even mine. It’s from Alfina the Vague, the author of Zemblan Grammar. She’s not writing about photography, or technology, or world events, or even about people I know. But that doesn’t matter because she’s always coming up with glorious combinations [...]

There’s a lot of bad advice on blogs. Some of it even seems like it’s good: “Use your blog to become a better writer. Write regularly, and you can’t help but get better.” Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror is the most-recent I’ve found promoting this idea.
The problem for me: it doesn’t work.
Over the years, I [...]