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Fireflies: a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs
“….a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs….”* As a child, I used to chase and marvel at the fireflies twinkling in the night. As an adult, I now look at the fireflies as a glowing refutation of Charles … Continue reading
Posted in essay, music, nature, religion, science & technology
Tagged Adam Young, bioluminescence, Charles Darwin, creative evolution, disorder, entropy, evolution, fireflies, incandescent bulb, intelligent design, lightning bugs, Marc Branham, natural selection, order, Owl City, Radim Schreiber, Tsuneaki Hiramatsu
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blood moon risen
a blood moon risen, is it blemished with my sins, wounded with my pains? © said sadain, jr. 2018
Posted in about me, essay, general, nature, photography, poetry
Tagged blood moon, damas tree, jeddah, lunar eclipse, Mars, Moon Toon, poetry, Serafi Mall, THE RED PLANET please!
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The Umbrellas of Madinah
For this post, allow me to share with my blogging community glimpses of an unlikely world that you, dear reader, may not normally find yourself in: the Masjid an-Nabawi (or Prophet’s Mosque) of Madinah al-Munawwarah (the Enlightened City) in Saudi Arabia.
Posted in essay, general, photography, religion
Tagged Faith, Madinah al-Munawwarah, Masjid an-Nabawi, piazza, Prophet's Mosque, Ramadhan, religion, SL-Rasch GmbH, spirituality, umbrellas
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A Companion Reader to Babel Rising: Augmented Eternity
The fictional series, Babel Rising, written in the period 1998-1999, breathes of technologies that, at the turn of the century, were just about emerging. By now, in 2018, a lot of these technologies are almost ubiquitous already: large-screen video walls, Internet-enabled … Continue reading
Posted in babel rising - a short story, essay, information technology, science & technology
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, augmented eternity, augmented intelligence, cyberwarfare, fake news, fake persona, false identities, Google Glass, Internet, Internet of Things, IoT, Singularity, technology, Year Million
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the damas trees of sitteen
the damas trees of sitteen green conocarpus dinosaurs lined up in mid island of sitteen silent witnesses to the flow of red-tailed worms this side of the world
Posted in essay, haiku, photography, poetry, politics
Tagged 5-7-5, conocarpus lancifolius, damas tree, dinosaurs, driving, Godzillas, greening, jeddah, landscape, road, Saudi Arabia, Sitteen Road, street, surreal, traffic
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dawn
dawn the causeways rattle under sleepy feet waking to the call to prayer at dawn; winds snake from below the sea as sharp bites to a native reality and the tide gently laps to grace the burdened stilts.
the crocodile and the flies of bunawan
the crocodile and the flies of bunawan they believe they caught the biggest saltwater crocodile alive the same crocodile that they think feasted on their water buffaloes, the same crocodile they hold responsible for the disappearance of a farmer a … Continue reading
Posted in essay, nature, poetry
Tagged Adam Britton, agusan, bamboo rafts, bunawan, canoes, Cassius, crocodile, crocodile hunter, crocodylus porosus, drift boats, ecopark, Ernesto "Lolong" Goloran Cañete, Guinness World Records, hunting party, Lolong, Lolonger, marshes, marshland, National Geographic, Natural History New Zealand, saltwater, wetlands
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Peculiar 5-7-5s and their imaginings
The book project I mentioned previously (in The Lives Words Live) is taking shape slowly but surely.
Posted in book, essay, haiku, photography
Tagged 5-7-5, computer, imaginings, layered, layers, technology, the shot
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Circuitry
Circuitry The electric circuitry paces An environmental complex even as The swinging of one’s cradle Accelerates to and fro And to and fro: Finally dislodges me.
Posted in about me, collection: untitled (1976), essay, information technology, poetry, politics, science & technology
Tagged blogging, circuitry, computer, crescendo, Diliman, electrical, engineering, Focus Philippines Magazine, homesteading, identity, jolo, Kerima Polotan-Tuvera, Manila, martial law, Mindanews, philippines, poetry, Quezon City, Said Sadain, secessionist, Southern Mindanao, Sulu, technology, University of the Philippines, wiring, WordPress, writing, Zamboanga
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Recite!
If my memory still serves me right, back in kindergarten, we were taught a rhyme that went like this: “…away with coffee, away with tea, milk, milk come to me!…” At home I was however reciting — nay, more like … Continue reading
