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