An Ego is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Rememberance of Things Past: Ah, putt-putt on The Tektronix at the EUCC
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pyang/flash/miniputt.swf

Synchronicity: today read DDJ article summarizing Wolfram's book and then saw him on Charlie Rose tonight.

Another book I should but shan't read: Jim Lehrer's

No Certain Rest

Dennis Miller: Latest European floods will cost $20 billion; 5 for repair and 15 to find some way to blame the U.S.

Cadebury did an ad
"Issued in the spirit of Independence Day by Cadbury Temptations - international chocolates you'd love to share but won't." Elsewhere, it says the territory is like a chocolate that is "too good to share".
Many Indians were not amused.

Emery guy in front of me had union based $0 visit, $0 for glasses. My visit was $484. Sigh.

I hate Comp-USA. I just found out my Dantz Retrospect is 4.3. I just bought it a month ago. I resolve to only download software directly from the manufacturer! The McAfee I bought from CompUSA earlier this year was 3 years old. Sigh. Trust no one, especially in the PC world.

2003 Zagat guide for SF is out. They now quit trying to have a SF, North, South section, which is good since some Marin were in SF, some were in North.

8/23: Got to Apple store at 10:10, line then went around University and wrapped around for two more full blocks. I did not see Jobs, but the RDF must have been working or I would not have been in line! When people stopped cars and asked what was the line for, someone starting saying "Britney Spears tickets" Little punks (9-10ish) were skateboarding along drinking from 2l Coke bottle. one pass he shouted "f*ing nerds, Macs suck" to which an enligtened debater from the crowd responded that "I may be a nerd, but I can still kick your ass!" A later pass he said "Macs will ruin your life" to which someone in the crowd mused "how would we tell?"

Today S&P closed up 20.6% from latest low, officially indicating a bull market!

People's Republic Of California:

The message on them is aimed at new mothers. It says, "Don't throw your baby away." The stickers will be placed on Santa Cruz garbage dumpsters.

I am sure that will stop people.

Next Season Booked so far: 9/28: Night & Night (ACT) 9/28: Turandaut (Opera) 10/19 Otello (Opera) 11/9 Lackawanna 1/18 American Buffalo 2/22 Dazzle 4/5 Constant Wife 5/17 Three Sisters 7/5 Urinetown

Reading http://www.wilwheaton.net/ about how the next/final ST:NG movie was running long and they had to cut 48 minutes, including his scene. He ends his post with "Somewhere in Brooklyn, Wesley Crusher falls silent forever." P.S. Will has a 13YO kid. tempus fugit

Today's NPR factoid: you are 1/30th as likely to laugh when you are alone.

CK came up with: the food and h'ors-d'oeuvres at a singles joint are "cruisine."

I like the Cingular Nation commercial: you see some guy repeating these long complicated multi-modal public transit instructions. He then hangs up and immediatel shouts "taxi!" Public transit - or public anything - is rarely the right answer.

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepview/index.html 8 Linux boxes driving a T-221 ( which seems like the PC screen to get. ) Any article that talks about 1600x1200 not quite cutting it is talking my talk!

I wish I could have seen this: Yahoo: "Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" is made up of three self-contained, but sequential plays which trace a group of 19th century Russian radicals caught in a struggle for political freedom. "