Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
An Archaeopteryx And A Pig
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2006 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Poet Jim Fisher (a.k.a. Mountain Goats fan Jim Fisher) is finishing up a two-year poetry fellowship at Stanford. He pointed me to a cutting Billy Collins poem about workshopping poetry -- oh man, no code review in the realm of software could ever be as meaningless as workshopping poetry, could it?
and tells us that words are food thrown down
on the ground for other words to eat.
Billy Collins is pretty attractive. You know who else is surprisingly attractive? The younger Charles Grodin, who plays villain Nicky Holliday in The Great Muppet Caper. I jested while buying my ticket, "Is this rated R? Do I need to show ID? There is some serious man-pig love in this one, you know." And I'd forgotten how strong and disturbing Holliday's attraction to Miss Piggy is. Man, when do you see that sort of raw passion in the movies these days?
