රැපියෙල් තෙන්නකෝන් කිවිසුරාණන්ගේ ‘කුකුළු හැවිල්ල’
තනුව හා ගායනය සුනිල් සාන්ත
දුදනොද බිඳ - ලද තෙද කඳ
කඳ දෙවිරද - සාමිනේ
මගෙ කුකුළා නැසූ එකා
දදය ඔබගෙ පාළු යකා
තව එක බුද දිනක් තකා
ඉන්නට ඉඩ නොදී මකා
බලා එල්ල - හෙලූව හෙල්ල
මුලම බෙල්ල මරු තැනේ
කතරගමට රුහුණු රටේ
හිඟ කකා ලබන විටේ
පයින්ම ගොස් ඇවිද වටේ
පොළොව උලා නළල් ඇටේ
දිගට ඇදී - නැග පැහැදී
මහ හඬදී - දෙවියනේ
රනින් කුකුළු රුවක් පුදමි
රිදියෙන් බිජුවටක් පුදමි
රන් දුනු හී දෙකක් පුදමි
රුවට රිදී රුවක් පුදමි
කතරගමේ - බලමහිමේ
දුටුද එමේ - හැම තැනේ
දුදනොද බිඳ - ලද තෙද කඳ
කඳ දෙවිරද - සාමිනේ
මට කළ මෙවිපත අනේ
බලන්නැ දෙවි සාමිනේ
වැජඹෙන නා මෙවිමනේ
බලන්නැ නා සාමිනේ
What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me … is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
Alias.sh allows you to mange all of your [shell] aliases online and browse the list of cool aliases submitted by others. From there you can run a single command to copy your aliases back into your profile should you require them.
1000-yr-old Sandakada pahana found in London, going to auction for £30k
It will be sold at Bonham’s Indian and Islamic sale in London on April 23rd. They expect it will sell for at least £30,000 ($48,000), which seems very low to me considering its beauty and incalculable historic and cultural value.
I wish she’d donate it to a museum. It’s in such impeccable condition, which makes it even rarer than the six which remain in place since they’ve been stepped on by so many thousands of pilgrims and tourists.
I met Aaron when he was 14 or 15. He was working on XML stuff (he co-wrote the RSS specification when he was 14) and came to San Francisco often, and would stay with Lisa Rein, a friend of mine who was also an XML person and who took care of him and assured his parents he had adult supervision. In so many ways, he was an adult, even then, with a kind of intense, fast intellect that really made me feel like he was part and parcel of the Internet society, like he belonged in the place where your thoughts are what matter, and not who you are or how old you are.
(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.)
Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events that began this…
Required reading.
“Aaron had literally done nothing in his life “to make money.” He was fortunate Reddit turned out as it did, but from his work building the RSS standard, to his work architecting Creative Commons, to his work liberating public records, to his work building a free public library, to his work supporting Change Congress/FixCongressFirst/Rootstrikers, and then Demand Progress, Aaron was always and only working for (at least his conception of) the public good. He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius. A soul, a conscience, the source of a question I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think? That person is gone today, driven to the edge by what a decent society would only call bullying.”
