<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post7617952449498773486..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4408644907140428979</id><published>2010-02-21T09:28:44.840-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T09:28:44.840-05:00</updated><title type='text'>COBOL?  you go all the way back to them IBM 1401&amp;#...</title><summary type='text'>COBOL?  you go all the way back to them IBM 1401&amp;#39;s and (the newer, super-duper) 7070&amp;#39;s?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;heck ... machine language... when  in 1959-62 I worked for Main Navy (under Rickover)(in those temp buildings on Constitution avenue) operating (at night so I could got to college during the day)  the last of the plug-board&lt;br /&gt;computers (IBM 407s)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took a two week course </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/4408644907140428979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/4408644907140428979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html?showComment=1266762524840#c4408644907140428979' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7617952449498773486' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7617952449498773486' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-969812481812023310</id><published>2010-02-21T08:46:32.850-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T08:46:32.850-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You know, Joe. I really do not think of myself as ...</title><summary type='text'>You know, Joe. I really do not think of myself as having a nemesis in poetry. Ted is just a Cobol programmer in the age of cloud computing, and that&amp;#39;s fine. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I do think of the word nemesis, the only name that comes to me is George W. Bush, perhaps because we&amp;#39;re almost exactly the same age. Then I realized that your example was his NEA doing its thing, and that almost made </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/969812481812023310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/969812481812023310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html?showComment=1266759992850#c969812481812023310' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7617952449498773486' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7617952449498773486' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3043425762993183795</id><published>2010-02-20T15:45:19.561-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T15:45:19.561-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How ironic that in one of his first acts as Poet L...</title><summary type='text'>How ironic that in one of his first acts as Poet Laureate, your nemesis hosted &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3677&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Literary Evening with John Prine and Ted Kooser&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot; The program note calls it &amp;quot;a lively discussion between the songwriter and the poet as they compared and contrasted the emotional appeal of the lyrics of popular </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/3043425762993183795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/3043425762993183795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html?showComment=1266698719561#c3043425762993183795' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7617952449498773486' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7617952449498773486' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2544258940761906768</id><published>2010-02-20T11:22:47.331-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T11:22:47.331-05:00</updated><title type='text'>last time I saw/heard John Prine was at either&#xa;The...</title><summary type='text'>last time I saw/heard John Prine was at either&lt;br /&gt;The Bohemian Caverns or The Potters&amp;#39; House here in D.C.  about 1974&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;guess who was sitting at the next table.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chris Christoferson  who I just saw live on a tv show called&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Austin City Limits the other day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one time  when in The City  fay and I went to a club  maybe 1975 or six or 7  to see&lt;br</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/2544258940761906768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7617952449498773486/comments/default/2544258940761906768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html?showComment=1266682967331#c2544258940761906768' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-friends-gave-us-tickets-to-see.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7617952449498773486' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7617952449498773486' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2010"/></entry></feed>