*Yapa

April Thirtieth,
My baby's Twenty First month of life
Celebrated with his drawing
Celebrated circles, eyes, zigzags, coherent lines, dots
I cannot say when he started, few months ago?
But like all in his development
Suddenly you focus your attention, and there it is
The proof of coordination
Of meaning
Of intent
For the untrained eye
This section of the greater drawing is unintelligible
For the parent's eye
There is life in it
I share the life in him and in his drawing
Today, last day of this year's get-your-poet-out-of-the-woodwork
Tomorrow, first day in May, celebration for workers day
We will be celebrating with our baby art worker
"And thanks for all the fish"










*yapa = Argentinean for "an extra one,  free, as an act of kindness"

"eCompanies on the Island"

I found it. I can't believe it yet.

Russian short stories translated into english.

http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/

What sent me into the search? eBay buys Skype, Yahoo buys Flickr, Google buys Blogger, Mr.Portenho has the bad idea to update to the new blogger's site and an hour lost to try to login again.

The result is the text in english of Anatoly Dneprov titled "Crabs on the Island" (Крабы идут по острову) about an experiment with robotic crabs that evolve from a simple first specimen landed an island in the middle of nowhere. This specimen has the ability to reproduce itself eating metal burried across the island.

The result . . . I invite you to read the text. But the evolution of a fake crab population could resemble pretty much to the industrial organization process seen in the eBussiness, where small little companies are being absorbed by other who grow fat and then they migh eat each other.

The text can be downloaded from http://home.freeuk.com/russica4/books/cafe/crabs_w6.rar

Found some pictures of Anatoly Dneprov (11.18.1919-1975 ) for whom I didn't have a face, and ilustrations of the story. Data on Dneprov at http://193.40.240.76/sfbooks/teosed.asp?autor=327&krit=Vorm

I also found a paper in which this story and "Nitrogen"by Primo Levi are used to evaluate the ability of short stories to teach science (http://www.pantaneto.co.uk/issue12/negrete.htm)

Very Cool!

I want to thank the President of the Internet!!!!