High Masculine Tones

A short step from blocks to OSX

I wasn't even awake when my fifteen-month old son Harry walked into our bedroom, booted up our iMac, loaded a word processing program and started typing.

I'm still trying to figure out how this might have happened. In the interests of science I saved his written output, which I reproduce verbatim:

CVV 5
B vmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm1`AAAAQ 1222222222kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk z N

It's formally similar to Ezra Pound's late work... but I can't shake the fear that he's one more modern kid whose technical know-how outstrips his communication skills.

"Dude, where's my..." excepting "car", and "country".

... and when you've been gone a while, it adds to the pressure to make your return posting, well, ummm, good.

Hopefully, this posting will relieve that pressure.

I'm a hot food freak, and when I'm in my cups been heard to boast that "it can't be too hot." Usually I walk the talk -- there was a Balti Restaurant in Birmingham that briefly humbled me with a fireball appetizer, but I perservered and recovered to triumph over the entree.

A couple of nights ago, due to an unlikely set of circumstances (lack of foreknowledge, eating a tasty veggie stew in a dark room while watching a video), I had the opportunity to eat an habanero pepper whole.

I wouldn't recommend it.

Willi Chevalier
Singmaringen, Germany
Swabian Beard Club
Category: Partial beard, freestyle
Current world champion!

::World Beard and Moustache Championships Carson City 2003

'I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand.'

:: The Globe and Mail, Chrétien jokes about trying pot once it's decriminalized