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I think it's great that NYC PBS has been showing episodes of The Prisoner Sunday night at midnight. Still, I failed again last night to make it through to the end. The plots are interesting (and the location is amazing) but there is something very methodical about it. Almost hypnotic. Does anything every happen? I'm usually asleep by 12:20.
- jim 7-15-2002 10:58 pm [link] [6 comments]

Looks like Salon is the soon to be named mystery partner about to bring "thousands of blogs" (first item) online through a partnership with Userland.
- jim 7-15-2002 10:11 pm [link] [add a comment]

From Dave Farber's Interesting People list:

On 7/14/02 6:04 AM, "vint cerf" wrote:

even if WorldCom enters chapter 11, I am confident that UUNET and the MAE Systems will continue to operate normally.

vint

Just in case you were worried.

- jim 7-15-2002 6:10 pm [link] [add a comment]

"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone"

--Bjarne Stronstrup (originator of C++ programming language)

- jim 7-15-2002 6:06 pm [link] [add a comment]

We went to see De la guarda last night. This is an Argentinian show put on in a beautiful old bank building right off Union Square. To start, everyone is herded into a dark room. A low fabric ceiling hangs above. The walls are dark fabric. The crowd is just standing around in the low light, not quite sure what is going to happen. It's not clear if there is a stage, or a direction to face, or an optimal place to stand in the shoulder to shoulder crowd.

And then you notice some rising ambient music. Like sounds of the jungle. And then you notice lights flickering up above the fabric of the ceiling. And other strange sounds. Is that water falling on the other side of the ceiling?

And then more lights flickering above. And then the shadows of people. Swooping. Flying up above your head, their shadows racing across the fabric roof above you. The music gets louder. The flying becomes more frantic. And then eventually the people above start to tear through the fabric of the ceiling. The music explodes. People are yelling. The whole ceiling comes down and the night of acrobatic bungie jumping Argentinian dancers running and flying and looping and spinning overhead begins. They literally dance up and around the walls. They pick a few people up from the crowd and swoop around with them overhead. Neat.

Lots of drumming. Lots of water (you get a little wet.) Lots of crowd participation. Pretty cool gimmick.
- jim 7-15-2002 6:03 pm [link] [add a comment]

Went to a party in Booklyn last night (the 7th Ave stop on the F.) Absolutely amazing views from the Verrazano all the way around to Queens (which includes the entire New York harbor, Statue of Liberty, Red Hook in the foreground, Manhattan in the background, etc...) We were treated to a great sunset as well.

Of course I didn't have a camera. That G1 is great, but it's too big to just throw into your bag. And since I wasn't even carrying a bag last night it was definitely out of the question. Clearly I need one of those casio wrist watch cameras to fill in the gaps.
- jim 7-14-2002 6:38 pm [link] [1 comment]