en-us I dabble in a bit of everything. This site is where I put all the stuff I want to share more permanently. http://www.desiquintans.com/ Copyright Desi Quintans, 2013 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.desiquintans.com/writersblock Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:52:00 -0800 Normal Blog Stuff I’ve redesigned this site to better focus on its new role: making the things I create available to whomever wants them. I don’t blog at all any more, but I dabble in a bit of everything. I program software, write articles, sculpt things, paint things, carve things, learn things, design, assemble and build things. This is where I put all the stuff I want to share in a more permanent format. As you look around you may find fragments of the past. Things like half-finished lists, post… http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=232 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=232 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=232 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:05:00 -0700 Other websites Ever since reading part of Vasily Grossman's account of the Treblinka death camp, The Hell of Treblinka in A Writer at War, I've been looking all over for the full text for ages. Well the full English-translated text of The Hell of Treblinka is over at Dropbox, either in HTML format or in PDF format. http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=231 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=231 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=231 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:07:00 -0700 Normal Blog Stuff Writing I have started a mini-blog called Books I Have Read (of course!) where I list all of the books I've finished, and store any passages I have highlighted from them using my Kindle. For each entry I rate the book out of five stars depending on how much I liked it, and give a one sentence summary of the book's premise, and then I list all of the excerpts I've taken. The number of excerpts that are listed should give you an idea of how much I ac… http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=230 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=230 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=230 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:10:00 -0700 Writing Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June, Dawdling away their wat'ry noon) Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity. We darkly know, by Faith we cry, The future is not Wholly Dry. Mud unto mu… http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=229 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=229 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=229