Trenton Art All Night 2008 recap
June 23rd, 2008Here’s some photos I took at Art All Night in Trenton - it was a great time for sure.
John.
Pecha Kucha Night at Princeton Public Library
May 30th, 2008Janie Hermann of Princeton Public Library graciously invited me and others to participate in a Pecha Kucha night at PPL this coming Tuesday, June 3rd. I had such a great time!! Thanks, Janie, Pete, Romina, Julie, and Bob - I had a blast.
Pecha Kucha Night
Pecha Kucha, the Japanese phrase for “the sound of conversation”, is a phenomenon that is spreading across the globe in a variety venues. Join the PPL Tech Team and several invited guests for an evening of fast-paced presentations in the “20×20 format: where each panelist has exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds along with 20 images to cover a current technology trend or topic of their choosing. See if they can do it and then join in the conversation about Web 2.0 and technology. Confirmed panelists for the evening include Peter Bromberg, Nicole Engard, Romina Gutierrez, Janie Hermann, Bob Keith, John LeMasney, and Julie Strange. To learn more about Pecha Kucha visit http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
Tuesday June 3, Community Room, 7 pm
David Thomas LeMasney photos and video
May 17th, 2008David Thomas LeMasney
May 17th, 2008After beginning his approach on Wednesday evening, May 14th at about 6pm, David Thomas LeMasney was born in Princeton, NJ on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 6:38 pm. We just were able to come home today, Tuesday May 20th, 2008, so please forgive the delay. For those of you who heard through the grapevine or got the preview email, please forgive the duplicate information.
He was born weighing 9 pounds, 6 ounces, was 21 inches long, and is absolutely beautiful.
Congratulations and thanks to Dawn, who is simply amazing, and recovering very well. Special thanks to Penny Bussel Stansfield, all in practice at Princeton Midwifery, Miss Sara, Grandma, and Aunt Agnes. Your teamwork was something to behold.
Thanks to all who wished us well, delivered dinner, and thought of us.
Pictures and video to appear at http://lemasney.com and more will be coming soon.
John (Dawn, David and Jack) LeMasney.
Something’s Happening
May 15th, 2008Dawn’s water broke tonight about 6 pm - nothing yet, but won’t be long now. C’mon, boy!
Poem: In Protest
May 9th, 2008http://poetsonline.org/archive/arch_protest.html holds my most recent poem (Thanks, again, Ken!):
IN PROTEST
When you shake your head
while I’m speaking
what I know is the truth
I suppress a scream.
I can feel a protest rising in my throat
but I’ve learned to smother it
with a pillow
and slowly push in a knife
to quiet my convictions
to avoid a follow up sit down
written out reprimand.
I think back to times
when I said to myself
“I love what I’m doing
I’d do this for free
I’ll do this
for the rest of my life”
When we speak at each other
sometimes in gently increasing volume
and a sharpened tone,
raising our fingers
to note we’d like a chance to speak again
we’re not listening.
We’re just speaking.
We’re not in a dialogue
but two monologues.
You remind us very often
that this is not a democracy
and that if we don’t fit in here
we should leave
and my chest tightens when I hear it.
Having to leave would mean
starting over with
devils I don’t know,
demons I don’t care about,
daemons I don’t run
anymore.
You removed them from my care,
and it was of the greatest valence to me
in this work of service and bits.
And I have always felt
calm in this place,
until recently.
John LeMasney
John LeMasney on PPL’s Poetry Podcast 2008
April 30th, 2008I was graciously invited to read some of my poetry on the 2008 edition of the Princeton Public Library’s Poetry Podcast, which allows poets to share their work visually and verbally in podcast form. It’s a fantastic way to share this kind of information using technology (one of my favorites, WordPress) but also a very fitting and poignant way to celebrate National Poetry Month.
Check out what happened at:
http://pplpoetpodcast2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/john-lemasney/
Thanks again to the kind, brilliant, hard working folks at Princeton Public Library for making this possible.
John.
John LeMasney presents to Rider University about Losing Weight
April 29th, 2008John LeMasney spoke to Rider University on Monday April 28th as part of the Healthy U Lunch and Learn series. His topic, losing 100 pounds in less than a year, has been a favorite topic of his since migrating from a morbidly obese body type to a normal body type.
Copyright and Learning Presentation
April 29th, 2008Here’s the Google Doc from today’s CII Presentation on Copyright and Learning.
And the movie will be up shortly.
John LeMasney: Using Technology to lose weight
April 28th, 2008This was the second session at Trenton Computer Festival on Using Technology to Lose Weight. The Flip’s (my solid state tapeless digital video camera) batteries died, and so I only had the audio and the slideshow for this one, which I’ve synced using Slideshare’s great slidecasting feature, and embedded below. I really enjoyed presenting at TCF both days, and want to give special thanks to Dave Harding, Brian Kelley, Smed Martinetti, Chris Leyon, and Greg Wilson for the presence, support, and encouragement. I also want to thank Sol Libes and everyone at TCF for pulling off yet another great year. Finally, I want to thank my attendees on both days - it feels great to share your success with others and have conversations with new friends on broad topics.
