Blogs
spread
gossip
and rumor
But how about a
Rare, geeky form of poetry?
I
like
to blog.
Frequently.
Theory matters.
Computer science (theory)
is my home and geometric algorithms are
sublime. Let P be a set of points in general position in the plane. Amen.
The last line, said Mr. Venkatasubramanian, is an inside joke in geometry.
So
you
no doubt
will not find
it interesting
to talk to me about this stuff.
Gregory K. Pincus, a screenwriter and aspiring children's book author in Los Angeles, wrote a post on his GottaBook blog (gottabook.blogspot.com) two weeks ago inviting readers to write "Fibs," six-line poems that used a mathematical progression known as the Fibonacci sequence to dictate the number of syllables in each line. [Snip]
The number of syllables in each line must equal the sum of the syllables in the two previous lines. So, start with 0 and 1, add them together to get your next number, which is also 1, 2 comes next, then add 2 and 1 to get 3, and so on. Mr. Pincus structured the Fibs to top out at line six, with eight syllables.That's 0-1-1-2-3-5-8 . The first line of each poem is, of course, silence.
This is from an article in the New York Times, April 14, 2006 written by MOTOKO RICH.
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