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Tea leaves, bicycle chains and dream of Christopher, Christopher and the machine
I am drinking goat's milk hot chocolate from my Alan Turing mug. (It's from the ACM.)
My poem "The Clock House" has been accepted by Stone Telling.
It's a piece I wanted to write since the fall of 2008; it took me a year once I got started. It is for Christopher Morcom. It is also for Alan Turing.
It is Turing's centenary year. The call to grant him a posthumous pardon for his conviction for gross indecency was just rejected. (He did get a stamp.) I submitted the poem specifically for Stone Telling's queer issue.
They need more submissions. Send them some.
I did believe it possible for a spirit at death to go to a universe entirely separate from our own, but I now consider that matter and spirit are so connected that this would be a contradiction in terms. It is possible however but unlikely that such universes may exist.
—Alan Turing, "The Nature of Spirit" (1932)
My poem "The Clock House" has been accepted by Stone Telling.
It's a piece I wanted to write since the fall of 2008; it took me a year once I got started. It is for Christopher Morcom. It is also for Alan Turing.
It is Turing's centenary year. The call to grant him a posthumous pardon for his conviction for gross indecency was just rejected. (He did get a stamp.) I submitted the poem specifically for Stone Telling's queer issue.
They need more submissions. Send them some.
I did believe it possible for a spirit at death to go to a universe entirely separate from our own, but I now consider that matter and spirit are so connected that this would be a contradiction in terms. It is possible however but unlikely that such universes may exist.
—Alan Turing, "The Nature of Spirit" (1932)
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I always feel faintly bad about not chaining mine to a radiator.
Turing was truly one of the World's Awesome People - the SO is fond of describing him as the only person who could have solved the problem of artificial intelligence for us, and now we never will. I look forward to seeing the poem.
Thank you. I hope you'll like it. I hope it honors them.
(Have you got a poem to send?)
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Hee! I may have to attach an honorary chain to the handle...
(Bletchley Park was on our to-do list when visiting London last year. We made it to the Royal Observatory, instead; next time for sure).
(Have you got a poem to send?)
I have been a good little selidor; two are in their inbox.
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I have to go there as well. And to Derek Jarman's garden.
I have been a good little selidor; two are in their inbox.
Appropriate luck-wishing rituals sent your way!