NANO ZEN

Seeking Silence

Anthony Howe — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:48:38 +0000

I’ve been rather quiet of late. Still going through one of those information overload and reclusive periods where I just turn off instant messaging clients, twitter, put off reading email, and ignore the telephones. This of course means I’ve been less than inspired in my writings. Wouldn’t call it depressed so much as seeking silence.

I really should consider a get-away to the mountains with fresh cool air, pine trees, chilly lakes and streams, less than 10 people per square kilometre, and where the only Internet access is TCP/IP by Carrier Pigeon. Some place like Evian-les-Bains, France; Sweden; northern Quebec; or maybe Cicely, Alaska.

Cannes is a smallish city compared to Nice 35 Km away, but when the film festival and summer high season comes about, the place just swells with tourists that have a tendency to leave their brains at home. Oh hum.

Thankfully, I have a road trip to England to visit friends beginning of August. Hope it rains the whole time I’m there. Yes I’m tad odd.

Getting my beauty rest…

Anthony Howe — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:41:26 +0000

@mydesire first showed me this and I being a dog owner, I could not help but go “awww that’s so cute!”.

Getting my beauty rest…, originally uploaded by Photography South.

Are you technically competant?

Anthony Howe — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:31:14 +0000

I thought those HolyTaco flowcharts where such a hoot that I had to have a go at one of my own. Here’s a flow chart to determine if you might be a geek.

Getting lucking on a date.

Anthony Howe — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:47:23 +0000

Reprinted from HolyTaco without permission.

Konohana’s Embrace

Anthony Howe — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:44:46 +0000

As often seen in my haiku, I’m very fond of Eos, the Greek Goddess of Dawn and Selene, Greek Goddess of the Moon. The dawn and the moon are powerful moments and symbols, constants in our lives.

I love the early dawn, with its changing hues from deep navy blues, purples, reds, orange, to bright light. I like to walk and/or run early to feel this moment. It is a shame that most of the world are still silent and fail to experience this beauty. Mind you the silence of dawn is one of the draws for me to rise early and go forth before others despoil it.

Similarly with the moon, it is a strong symbol in many mythos. For myself, having travelled and lived overseas from family and friends, the Moon for me as a teen became a messenger to whom I could voice a thought of affection to give to loved ones living far away. Late night or early morning walks with Baka often accord many wonderful sights of Selene’s visage.

Now I welcome a new goddess to worship and praise in verse, Konohana in Japan is The Blossom Princess, Goddess of Spring. I hope to voice many a haiku in tribute, though the blooms of mimosas, wisteria, judas tress have now past, leaving only the jasmine. I think she and I will become good friends.

How to pick a religion.

Anthony Howe — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:45:34 +0000

Reprinted from HolyTaco without permission.

Eos moans

Anthony Howe — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:38:24 +0000

April was a so-so month for inspiration, despite the onset of spring. Normally with spring comes a plethora of thoughts, ideas, and emotions that serve as a well spring of muse. Even my presence on twitter has been muted. I suppose I’m just going through one of those over-saturated phases with regards to computers and communication (or maybe its global warming). This happens I find every so often. I suppose it comes from a professional life behind a computer, in addition to using it for communication, games, radio, music, news, and films.

I really should get out more.

Around

Anthony Howe — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:13:38 +0000

I’m around. Have had guests and been working on my own Forth implementation (my on again off again pet project) – what can I say, I had glandular fever once and I was bitten with a need to understand Forth language ever since . I’ll be back once I get that itch that needs scratching very scratched.

Daylight Savings Time (again)

Anthony Howe — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:13:31 +0000

Its that time of year again when many of nations switch to Daylight Saving Time. The idea being that summer evenings will have more day light. Personally I prefer more light in the mornings, since I tend to be a morning personal and get a lot more done in the morning. I detest afternoons, just can’t concentrate. About the best I can do is either have a siesta or play a computer game to take my mind off the day.

Some of the haiku I wrote this week were tagged #haiku #humour #yoda and they were an amusing attempt at writing haiku as the character Yoda from Stars Wars might do, with his odd endearing manner of speaking and succinct wisdom.

In The Snow

Anthony Howe — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:58:31 +0000

I really should have posted these back when we had a second rare snowfall in Cannes back in February. I guess I was hoping there might be a third occurrence to wrap up the winter, but unfortunately no joy. Still I wanted to archive these as they’re so pretty.

Pizza Shop #Cannes Fails To Deliver

Anthony Howe — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:21:09 +0000

Copied from an email addressed to…

To: info@cannes-centre.pizza-shop.fr, postmaster@cannes-centre.pizza-shop.fr, contact@cannes-centre.pizza-shop.fr, riviera@angloinfo.com, riviera.forums@angloinfo.com.

CC: info@mister-pizza.com, contact@mister-pizza.com, postmaster@mister-pizza.com

(Note that some addresses may not be active, though RFC requirements do require a postmaster@ address, though many domains choose to ignore this at their peril.)

I thank you for being fuckers.

For all the claims of quality, you fail to respect service. I’ve already
announce on Twitter #Cannes

http://twitter.com/SirWumpus/statuses/9787915922

your failures and I’ll publish in other Internet places related to Cannes / Cote d’Azur your refusal to respect common practice concerning 10-points for a free pizza.

Your most current flyer claims free delivery and makes no exceptions concerning 10 points for a free pizza. All the competitors, especially Mister Pizza (http://www.mister-pizza.com/index_fr.html), respect the concept of delivering a 10-point free pizza. PIZZA SHOP DOES NOT!

Your requirement that I must order a regular pizza at the same time as the free pizza is unreasonable for single person. How do you expect one person to eat two pizzas?! Totally stupid. Typically french as the english have come to know; certainly wanker behaviour

I’ve including Anglinfo.fr, Mister Pizza, and friends in this communication. I hope that they publish these details about your
failures to respect common practices.

Update: since the Pizza Shop fuckers won’t respect the “10-point get one free” concept, I’ve opted to order from a new different delivery place in Cannes, Wasabi d’Azur(04 93 39 55 70). This is my second time trying their service. No point system, but at least honest and friendly thus far.

Eos’ Brisk Breath

Anthony Howe — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:57:17 +0000

Cadence of Stars

Anthony Howe — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:17:25 +0000

Eerie Whistles By Night

Anthony Howe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:33:43 +0000

Rhythm of Silence

Anthony Howe — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:13:34 +0000