Mines Goggles Puts on its Shiny Shoes

Two new things to mention right now:

1. - First, Alex can be cool and audioblog now, either by hosting audio through 'Springdoo' - as you can see in action for the Sudoku Samurai poem below - or by posting directly to this blog from my cell. Not that cool, but certainly cooler than the other new tidbit.

2. - Second, I added a little chat box... waaay at the bottom of the page, because the thing doesn't look good anywhere else. I had a talk with the founder, though, they're fixing it up for me as we speak. Check them out at Gabbly.com if you'd like. Anyway, if anybody... happens to be looking at Mines Goggles at the same time as somebody else - unlikely - they can talk about how amazing I am... or just leave an angry message for me to check out later.

This is what boredom in the Springs leads to... Missoula on Saturday, baby!

Poetry Corner: Sudoku Samurai

Yay for inspiration. I wrote this little beauty during finals week at Mines. Anyway, you know that Sudoku craze that's sweeping the nation? So do I. I'll be trying to make myself write poetry once I get through some romantic drama and get settled into the gorgeous city of Missoula, Montana. But for now, this is all I've got:

Sudoku Samurai

Treacherous intellectual fad!
You have created a false elite
with a mastery of the mundane
and an illusion, a false sense of
morning mathematical accomplishment.

Addition and determination,
are the sole requisite skills
to fill your cavernous maw
with the 1s, 9s, 4s, and 7s
that rightfully belong to us.

You were once a forgotten bastard,
son of the noble newspaper crossword.
And you will seep - numerically - back
into a blessed, puzzling obscurity.
But until that day, you curse the world
in your restricted tongue of numbers.

- Audio: Sudoku Samurai

Hope I haven't lost it after two years of calculus, physics, thermodynamics, and beginning volleyball. Either way, you can hear an audio clip of me reading Sudoku Samurai by following the link above. Out for now.