black and white

moving on-change of address

2010-03-21T10:36:00.002-04:00

I am not a new technology adopter. I want my technology to work and to stay out of the way. The publishing "program" that has made the daily presentation of B&W possible is "Blogger", software launched in 1999.
Record a thought with pencil and paper, then throw your writing materials in a drawer. Twenty years later, open the drawer, the paper and pencil remain. Amend your thought. The pencil still works. The paper works. Blogger has approached pencil and paper reliability. Pencil and paper are good technology. As a user, I've never had to spend time software wrestling. Blogger worked.
On the simplest level the software has provided easy access to a space, a blank wall, a means to hang pictures. It's a blank wall in my home that appears in locations all over the world. Magic.

I've been at this Internet location for five years. At this URL, this uniform resource locator.
For business and security reasons, the good people at Blogger (owned since 2003 by Google) are changing their software in a way that will require me to move on, to leave this address.
The 1290+ posts that are accessed via this URL and presented with Google/Blogger software will remain.
Future posts can be found at:

http://www.billemory.com/blog/

David

2010-03-20T00:18:00.001-04:00

Indeed, what is this bizarre means of expression that reads you as you are reading it, that is able to accumulate knowledge about the practitioner at the same time as the practitioner uses it to accumulate and record knowledge?--Emmanuel Garrigues
(Garrigues, Emmanuel ed. Ethnographie et Photographie. Num�ro Sp�cial de L'Ethnographie. Tome 87, 1. Numero 109. (Paris: Societ� d'Ethnographie, 1991), p. 28. Translation quoted by J. David Sapir, "On Fixing Ethnographic Shadows," American Ethnologist 21 (4), 1994. pp. 867-885.)

Icarus shed

2010-03-19T09:03:00.003-04:00

which witch, T-111, boy, falling

day of rest

2010-03-14T00:04:00.001-05:00

Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Orange, Virginia

Sisters

2010-03-13T09:56:00.002-05:00

Currently on opposite edges of the continental US

time machine-scode lake

2010-03-11T10:54:00.004-05:00

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.--Coleridge
On the road to the lake, I am searching for the real lake name and lat/lon. It was in Franklin County or Henry County. This back when hauling people in the pickup was legal. Back when American kids were skinny. Oh lost!

Reggie

2010-03-08T00:03:00.000-05:00

day of rest

2010-03-07T18:49:00.000-05:00

somewhere in Brooklyn...

empty

2010-03-06T00:02:00.001-05:00

on the road

2010-03-05T00:04:00.000-05:00

Where?

time machine

2010-03-04T00:03:00.001-05:00

ANC

2010-03-03T00:03:00.000-05:00

Spot turn?

"The Organ Rehearsal" (1885) by Henry Lerolle

2010-03-02T00:06:00.003-05:00

"How can we fight the French, Prince?" said Count Rostopchin. "Can we arm
ourselves against our teachers and divinities? Look at our youths, look at our ladies! The
French are our Gods: Paris is our Kingdom of Heaven."--LT

(Lerolle)

Chihuahua

2010-03-01T00:06:00.001-05:00

The Chihuahua was used in sacred rituals as they were considered holy to Pre-Colombian Indian nations.--Wikipedia

day of rest

2010-02-28T10:51:00.001-05:00

Union Chapel

Civility

2010-02-25T09:52:00.006-05:00

Home of the Cars?

Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong. Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists' claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership. Epithets--especially joy rider--reflected and reinforced the prevailing social construction of the street. Automotive interest groups (motordom) recognized this obstacle and organized in the teens and 1920s to overcome it. One tool in this effort was jaywalker. Motordom discovered this obscure colloquialism in the teens, reinvented it, and introduced it to the millions. It ridiculed once-respectable street uses and cast doubt on pedestrians' legitimacy in most of the street. Though many pedestrians resented and resisted the term and its connotations, motordom's campaign was a substantial success.
--Peter Norton (More about Peter Norton)

The Charlottesville Police Department has a new statistical tool available for public use on the Internet. A query for all crimes in Charlottesville for the last seven days yields this report:

Had a close call walking Sophie earlier this morning. Almost struck by a car.
It is dangerous walking in our city.

Providence

2010-02-24T11:11:00.001-05:00

dusk

Single occupancy vehicle

2010-02-23T13:57:00.002-05:00

Drove home to the snow covered south. Making that big carbon footprint. 686 miles, I95, I84,I81, I64. 587 pounds of emissions. Takes 91 trees to offset. I'm covered. I'd ride Amtrak (316 lbs) but dogs are not allowed.

1886

2010-02-22T00:03:00.001-05:00

In Providence, there are several educational institutions surrounded by fences that have seemingly random dates bolted to the uprights. Huh? Alumni from Brown University or Moses Brown School please explain.

change again

2010-02-21T00:06:00.001-05:00

Gray, Sophie and I went out walking. Met Charlie and Bode on the edge of Atlantic Avenue.
These two dogs, from Diane and Red Pilbin's kennel in New Hampshire are a delight.

Sophie's fugue, her existential moment of yesterday forgotten.

change

2010-02-20T09:54:00.005-05:00

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

Sophia has a ten year history of visiting beaches. When she is on the sand I know what she is going to do. Poetry in motion. She runs and the running sings.
I took Sophie to the ocean yesterday and she surprised. She walked out in the water chest deep. She ignored my calls.
She stood still for too long. She came back in. She sat. She walked back to the car.
I hate change.

canis familiarus

2010-02-19T09:05:00.001-05:00

Tallulah.
I'd never met a bulldog before. Charming animal.

Providence

2010-02-18T08:01:00.003-05:00

Roger Williams, needs a new publicist. I'd never heard of him.

lame

2010-02-17T09:25:00.001-05:00

Sophie lame from road salt. Quit walking on Prospect Street a mile from home. Tried to hitch. Tried to get a ride from the police. Ended up carrying her to Jane and Paul's. They drove her home.

This dogboot seems to be answering, but not on the style level.

Buteo jamaicensis

2010-02-16T09:35:00.001-05:00

Hawks appear to thrive in the urban Providence biome.