Comments on: False faces

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:01:09 +0000

Good for you! Sounds like an ideal teachable moment.

By: butuki

butuki — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:12:42 +0000

I checked a little while back and saw that you were going off for a while, so what a surprise to see this rich ribbon of words jump out on the screen!

Click beetle… about a mount ago I was out at my university’s training campus in southern Chiba and I had a group of about ten first year students to take care of. We sat out on the terrace one afternoon, talking, when a click beetle landed on one of the girls’ heads and she screamed. I plucked it from her hair and then proceeded to place it on the concrete berm we were sitting on and letting it do its acrobatics. You should have seen the delight on everyone’s faces; they’d never seen a click beetle even though they are very common around night time lights outside. They couldn’t believe that an insect could do such delightful tricks!

By: Burning Silo » Blog Archive » Circus of the Spineless - Edition #22

Burning Silo » Blog Archive » Circus of the Spineless - Edition #22 — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:19:10 +0000

[...] * at Dave’s Via Negativa, two posts that might make you pause to think for a moment — On Deciding Not to Travel, and False Faces. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:30:00 +0000

Hi, Larry. Well, as far as the grammar goes, at least, Chinese is pretty easy for an English speaker. No endless lists of declensions and verb endings to memorize! Just, uh, endless lists of characters.

By: Larry Ayers

Larry Ayers — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:07:55 +0000

I happened by here on the off chance that you’d resumed posting, Dave. Welcome back!

I enjoyed your Chinese poems and the discursion on eye-spots.

For a few months while I was in my early twenties I attempted to teach myself literary Chinese — but then I discovered music, and playing the fiddle became a substitute outlet.

By: quiet regular

quiet regular — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:35:47 +0000

funny, you view the failure of high speed service as something that “started” rather than something that stopped. We all see it as stoppage. On the other hand, the via negativa is almost living up to its name.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:41:44 +0000

Thanks for the comments! I don’t feel I really deserve them, since I’ve hardly been reading any other blogs since this started. (Google Reader is NOT the best aggregator for folks on dial-up.) But boy am I itching to post to Flickr and YouTube!

By: Avery

Avery — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:12:06 +0000

Glad to see you’re back despite the slowness. I really enjoy you’re perception on what you see in the outdoors. It makes me want to enjoy the outdoors even more and peel away from my computer:)

By: quiet regular

quiet regular — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:59:51 +0000

“I’m trying to think positively about slowness.”
that shouldn’t be so hard. for an eyeore

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:39:42 +0000

One of the oldest blessings is the Aaronic–
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

But I guess the Lord’s countenance doesn’t have that snappy click in the middle of it.