I just found out I was mentioned in the Oct 22nd San Jose Mercury News:
Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance
The Fremont company that assists members of the payment card industry appointed Davi Ottenheimer to its board of directors. Currently, he serves at ArcSight.
by The Streets
In one single moment your whole life can turn ’round
I stand there for a minute starin’ straight into the ground
Lookin’ to the left slightly, then lookin’ back down
World feels like it’s caved in – proper sorry frownPlease let me show you where we could only just be, for us
I can change and I can grow or we could adjust
The wicked thing about us is we always have trust
We can even have an open relationship, if you mustI look at her she stares almost straight back at me
But her eyes glaze over like she’s lookin’ straight through me
Then her eyes must have closed for what seems an eternity
When they open up she’s lookin’ down at her feetDry your eyes mate
I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up
There’s plenty more fish in the seaDry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you’ve got to walk away now
It’s overSo then I move my hand up from down by my side
It’s shakin’, my life is crashin’ before my eyes
Turn the palm of my hand up to face the skies
Touch the bottom of her chin and let out a sigh‘Cause I can’t imagine my life without you and me
There’s things I can’t imagine doin’, things I can’t imagine seein’
It weren’t supposed to be easy, surely
Please, please, I beg you pleaseShe brings her hands up towards where my hands rested
She wraps her fingers round mine with the softness she’s blessed with
She peels away my fingers, looks at me and then gestures
By pushin’ my hand away to my chest, from hersDry your eyes mate
I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up
There’s plenty more fish in the seaDry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you’ve got to walk away now
It’s overAnd I’m just standin’ there, I can’t say a word
‘Cause everythin’s just gone
I’ve got nothin’
Absolutely nothin’Tryin’ to pull her close out of bare desperation
Put my arms around her tryin’ to change what she’s sayin’
Pull my head level with hers so she might engage in
Look into her eyes to make her listen againI’m not gonna fuckin’, just fuckin’ leave it all now
‘Cause you said it’d be forever and that was your vow
And you’re gonna let our things simply crash and fall down
You’re well out of order now, this is well out of townShe pulls away, my arms are tightly clamped round her waist
Gently pushes me back and she looks at me straight
Turns around so she’s now got her back to my face
Takes one step forward, looks back, and then walks awayDry your eyes mate
I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up
There’s plenty more fish in the seaDry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you’ve got to walk away now
It’s overI know in the past I’ve found it hard to say
Tellin’ you things, but not tellin’ straight
But the more I pull on your hand and say
The more you pull awayDry your eyes mate
I know it’s hard to take but her mind has been made up
There’s plenty more fish in the sea
Dry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you’ve got to walk away now.
Thirty-two, if you count this one by me:
An old pond, idle;
frog leaps into the water —
to the sound of “plop”
Matsuo Basho’s Frog Haiku is one of my favorite poems, if not my favorite.
Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
The Deutsche Welle profiles a film a about a controversial artist:
Doerte Franke’s documentary, titled simply “Stolperstein,” or “Stumbling Stone,” first drew acclaim when it featured at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in July.
The film takes viewers on a journey with Cologne-based artist, Gunter Demnig, the man behind the stumbling stones — miniature memorials to victims of Nazi persecution — that have become part of city streets in more than 300 locations in Germany alone.
The stumbling stones are topped with square brass plaques inscribed with the names and birth dates of people who were deported by the Nazis, as well as the date and location of their death, if known. The stones are embedded in the sidewalk outside the person’s former address so that passersby can literally stumble across these reminders of the terrible fate suffered by Jews, Roma, homosexuals and political dissidents under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
It is said 17,000 stones have been installed in the past eight years. That rate will take almost 3,000 years to honor just 6,000,000 victims. Berlin and Hamburg make up about 5,000 stones together, while Munich of course has tried to block the project. Why do they object? Could it be related to property value or just a matter of a conservative Munich being a stick-in-the-mud until public reaction is more clear?
Franke’s camera follows the artist at the small ceremonies when the privately-financed stones are laid. The production and embedding of a single stone costs 95 euros (about $120). Often, the victim’s family members are shown in the film. But the camera also captures the reactions of passersby, or shows the team of women in Hamburg who’ve taken it upon themselves to regularly clean and polish the brass stones.
I really like Hamburg; definitely one of the top cities in Europe.