now defunct Excite. com logo from 2000, at the Cyberplex office in downtown Toronto, I took the photo with my first digital camera, a Sony Mavica FD-7,storage on 3.5 inch microdiskette
Month: June 2014
Poem – On the Ice (2000)
On the Ice
We stood on the lake
Frozen in January
The first year
Of the new millennium
Talking of computers
And the internet.
Just eight feet of water
Under our snow boots.
The dogs rolling, snow baths,
Pushing their snouts
On the ice
Pulling winter inside
Their bodies.
Maybe they thought
They could melt the cold
And bring summer sooner.
old stuff spotted
wandering around Staples store in Midland, Ontario….I spotted on the bottom shelf in the farthest corner of the store, packages of carbon paper.
for those who don’t know what that is…. black sheets of paper when pressed copy impressions on to a blank paper placed behind. often put in the typewriter for making a copy. very old school.
preparing a writing space
working on ideas for the conversion of the boathouse (think one car garage space), glass and door changes happen next Friday…..fitting in some tools, two bikes, one desk, one desk chair, two filing cabinets, maybe a loveseat or a three seat couch (must fit golden retriever and one human at the same time), end table, and a few other workshop items like a shop vac. I have two bookcases allocated for tools.
any other must have suggestions? thanks
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William J. Gibsonwalls are stud open with black construction board, we contemplate insulation and drywall, or just spray the interior up to and including the open rafters white. wont be me going up into those rafters, but easy for a pro painter. -
Stephen QuinnSounds quite ambitious. -
William J. Gibsonmy above ground man cave, write read, let the Georgian Bay wind blast through, hang out with the dog. and stare at the bay, while listening to everybody else’s power mowers, whipper snippers, chainsaws, circular saws, and bad choices in music. perhaps I need a desert island.
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William J. Gibsonperhaps a dart board for exercise?
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Michele Hornbythis is essentially your writing room?. -
William J. Gibsonkeeping tv out, this is supposed to be primarily a quiet writing space. if you ever get a chance crack open Jill Krementz’ A Writers Desk, a book of photographs of the spaces, quite varied where writers work. http://www.amazon.ca/Writers…/dp/0679450149/ref=sr_1_4…
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William J. Gibsonwriting room? yes. plus guy tools storage, but it will at the minimum have electric power via outdoor extension cord plugged into outlet outside side door of house.
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William J. GibsonKrementz shows I think it was Robert Penn Warren typing, his typewriter set on a small wooden packing crate set on its end for added height, the essence of rudimentary but still steady
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Michele Hornbyso less is more with focus on view… .I like a la Z Boy rocker for mulling but a good chair with desk, and lighting (ceiling fan?). just stare out @ Georgian Bay and weave that noise into your work….
Summer login
summer is here, thundestorms, humidity, mosquitoes, sunshine, endless bird song, started he dog’s heartworm meds, watching boats pass by on Georgian Bay, looking at the calendar and noting half the year has nearly passed.
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