Tea leaves, bicycle chains and dream of Christopher, Christopher and the machine

[sovay]

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)

Comments

[sovay]

you just didnt see how that gave me the worst giggles ever... do you have to lick it or is it self sticking? (snort snort.. groan)

Dude, he deserves somebody's tongue on him after all this time.

he was such a brilliant man, if they had left him alone, he would have done even more.

Yes.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I think that his commemorative stamp is a wonderful sendup. Everyone should use them as a statement.

[sovay]

Everyone should use them as a statement.

If I lived in the UK, I would.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I will.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Dude, he deserves somebody's tongue on him after all this time.

You. Fired. Oh God FIRED.
I am at work at my desk.