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Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind. |
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Monday, January 5, 1998
I forgot to mention that I got my plane tickets for Potlatch 7 last Friday. At least I didn't procrastinate till the absolute last minute! I did the same thing I did last summer when I went to visit my sister: looked up the fares on Expedia (the ms travel site) then drove over to the travel agent and got the tickets there. I even was helped by the very same nice older lady at Crossroads Travel.
I'm really psyched about Potlatch! I'll be arriving Thursday evening, so I'll need to find something fun to do Friday during the day. This is all taking place the weekend after next. If my buddy Denys were going to be there we'd investigate swing dancing in the Bay area. He did buy a membership, but picked up some teaching or training assignments, so he won't be there.
This year I'll be moderating a program item on Saturday night, a first for me. "Whose Line is it, Anyway?" is one of those quiz shows of British origin where the main idea is providing the panelists opportunities to be clever, rather than play an actual game. This has been very popular at Orycon, but I don't know if we've played at Potlatch before. I hope I'll be able to keep things moving!
I'm saddened by Frank Muir's death. He was a panelist on my favorites of this type of show: "My Word" and "My Music". I used to listen to these on our public radio station in Virginia, but out here they haven't played them, that I'm aware of. What a good-humored, clever man he was.
I'll be sharing a room with my friend Freddie Baer. I don't mind having a room to myself, and indeed, usually do at other conventions; but sharing with her gives me more of a chance to see her. She's very popular!
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What's your opinion on the ettiquette of doing a "Deja News" search on people you know? I did one on a man who contacted me from my yahoo personal ad. Thankfully, nothing bad popped up! I debated on whether to mention it to him, then decided I really should, for fairness's sake. That way he can do the same to me! Also, if I didn't tell him, and he later told me something about himself, I'd be sure to say, "Yes, I read that in your post in XXX newsgroup...D'oh!"
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I actually accomplished something with Frontier tonight! There is a template with embedded scripts that I borrowed from Phil Suh, which automatically generates links to the other pages in a site, running down the left hand side of the page. The cool thing is that it can automatically make the name of the page you are on be just text, without a link! But the script was written for the previous version of Frontier, and some tables have changed names and locations, so when I tried to implement it, all I got was error messages. So I asked what was up on the Frontier-newbies list, and got an answer. Lo and behold, when I implemented it tonight, it worked! Yay! The Frontier community. I think I'm not subscribed to the right combination of mailing lists yet. The Frontier-newbies is very low traffic!
Of course, this little site has just a few pages, and could have been done manually very easily. But I want to learn this tool!
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