This will be an Amazon e-book. All proceeds (if any) will go to some cool, deserving charity, to be determined (Electronic Frontier Foundation? Union of Concerned Scientists?). Or maybe we’ll just put it out as a freebie under a Creative Commons license.
Working title
Geek Haiku: 256 Nuggets of Wisdom, Despair, Redemption, and Wit from the Digital Salt Mines
If you have never written a haiku, they’re easy. First line: 5 syllables, 2nd line: 7 syllables, 3rd line: 5 syllables. The really good ones usually create a small “aha” moment, or some kind of pivot, often via the last line.
Here is an example.
Emergency patch
Waiting on QA again.
Anchovies this time
I would like to gather up 256 of these (or 128, or 512). Send submissions to danielmarcus@yahoo.com and put “Geek Haiku” in the subject field to subvert the spambots
Thanks
Daniel
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