Up early this morning. I made MB breakfast because I feel bad about how hard she is working on the new restaurant. I worked hard yesterday too, but it's different. We had a great dinner at Bond St. last night where I talked maybe too loudly about the dangers of "property rights fundamentalism" (as Lessig recently turned the phrase.) Actually I kept trying to drop the whole thing, but nonetheless conversation continued to circle back. All I was saying was that no sort of content protection will ever work as long as people have access to general purpose computers. But apparently that led me into some sort of dystopian fantasyland. Still, I'm not sure I'm so far off. There is a lot of content, and a lot of powerful people who own that content and want it to be secured. And if it's true (trust me, it's true) that there is no way to secure it while people have access to general purpose computers, then it stands to reason that those same powerful forces will try to go the legislative route and outlaw general purpose computers. My guess is they probably won't win, but I think it's pretty clear they are going to give it a shot. Notice that Valenti recently called people sharing (pirated) video content "terrorists" (last week in the NY Times, but I don't have a link.) That seems pretty calculated to me.

Maybe this stuff is already in the Patriot Act, I don't think anybody has even read that whole thing yet. We'll see.

Hopefully I can get another long day in today. I have to make some important structural decisions. This is where having been through the problem a few times before really helps. It sharpens your intuition. Or let's hope...
- jim 1-21-2002 1:57 pm

what was great about the food??
- Skinny 1-21-2002 2:52 pm


Do you know the place? It's the Japanese (sushi, but also lots of cooked dishes) we want to take you to. We had seven small courses (all fish for me, one quail dish for them.) Beautifully prepared. Great sushi, although if you just want raw (I know you don't) then I still think Jewelbaka is the place. But at Bond St. the cooked dishes are superb.

Started with a cup of tomatoe tea consume (sp?) with a piece of raw lobster in it. Weird. Yummy.

Then a yellowtail-like sashimi on a mound of spicy radish and dandelion greens with an anchovie crisp (like an anchoivie potatoe chip.) Spicy.

Then I had a piece of cooked sturgeon in a sweet miso sauce and they had a (reportedly) nice quail-on-a-stick thing.

Then a round of sushi. Beautiful.

The best thing of all was the final thick bowl of mushroom soup. Very warming. Unbelievably tasty. Worth the whole trip.

I missed two (I think) courses in that recap. I'll try to remember. In any case, the food is top notch. Our tasting was $60, which is the lowest possible price. You can go up from there just by telling them how much you want to spend. Dangerous for you Mr. Wheeler. Great Sake but all very expensive ;(

We ate downstairs (front room) but apparently there is a big second floor and a lounge in the basement. The back of the first floor is a sushi bar (all sushi, but none of the other stuff.) The place is huge. The crowd is a little business suit-ish. That's probably the worst part. Nice room though. Definitely call ahead, and make it clear you want dinner (not just sushi.)

We'll go with you soon if you want.
- jim 1-21-2002 3:17 pm





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