Burning with love

From Cary Tennis, a columnist with Salon:

So he wants to be burning for you and feel drunk with love all the time? That's nice. Well, he's a musician. Musicians are children. They're courageous children but still, only a musician -- or a poet -- would be nearly 30 and say he wants to feel drunk with love for you all the time.

Musicians need a lot of care. They aren't really equipped to deal with the world. He may need to go off and feel infatuated a few more times. But face it, what this also means is that he and you are both facing adulthood, which is a kind of unconscious code word for eventual death. That's what it's all about. Adulthood is about dreary day after day dealing with immovable reality.

Verisign is evil

While ICANN is contemplating whether to continue allowing Verisign to be a domain registrar (which makes me think of Dominar Rigel but I digress), they are sending out renewal notices claiming absurdities.

Apparently my domain is up for renewal "soon." By soon, Verisign means next July. What time scale does the company work on that counts any time longer than a quarter as soon? Just trying to rake in a little cash before they lose the business, I suppose.