Pig Tales (What Elsas Knew)
Yesterday morning
I wrote down the story
"Green Stone Messages"
Then I started reading
More of John Haugeland's paper
"Representational Genera"
Haugeland brought up the subject of
Representations riding piggyback,
One being carried by another,
For example legends carried by maps
Later in an article in Science
The author mentioned that
"...CERN's neutrino physicists
Will have to pin their hopes on
A proposal to piggyback
A longer-baseline experiment on
The construction of
The Large Hadron Collider..."
16-year old Oksana Baiul
Beat Nancy Kerrigan last night
For the Olympic figure skating gold
By 1/10 of a point from a single judge
Afterward, Oksana was shown
Repeatedly kissing a small object
This turned out to be a charm
In the likeness of a pig,
Which had been given to her
As a good luck piece
Earlier in the day
Today I attended an all-day class
On converting graphics to video
At the supercomputer center
At one point the teacher
Described superimposing
A subcarrier sine wave
Carrying color information
On top of the luminance signal
As piggybacking
When writing "Green Stone Messages"
I had debated including
The two girls' names,
But decided not to
Laurie was the name of
The psychic girl on Kung Fu,
While Elsa was the young woman
In the Tom Swift book
There were four women
In today's video class --
One was named Laurie
And another was named Elsa
Elsa and I became friends
Over the course of the day
At one point we were all
Standing in front of equipment racks
While the instructor, Kevin,
Demo'd devices and explained material
One device which I noticed
And which he later
Called our attention to
Was a huge scan converter
Costing thousands of dollars
One intriguing thing about it
Was the brand name: Lyon Lamb
I kept wondering whether
This was an intentional irony,
A play on the biblical theme of
A lion lying down with a lamb
When I got home,
I was pleasantly surprised to see
That Anne McCaffrey had a new book
Besides it being a follow up
To Damia's Children,
And thus a continuation of
A series which I have enjoyed,
The title caught my eye:
Lyon's Pride
