Monthly Archives: March 2004
The Electronic Village has Power Laws
The Electronic Village has it’s rules and regulations. No food or drinks at the station. No e-Mail or web access. Basically the place exists for demos of small-cap or homemade learning software. The No Web prohibition is particularly galling since … Continue reading
Live from Long Beach
Popping back up this morning from beautiful Southern California, we are officially in “Arnold Country” now. Got in late last night and of course, with the convention in full swingy, 7,000 wacky ESL eccentrics swarming over this small city, there … Continue reading
One For The Road
Just a quick post from the office before we head to the airpost. It was surprisingly easy to cut the cord on our cable modem this morning – the server was down when we tried to post at 6 am … Continue reading
An Appropriate Image to Cut the Cord
Let the healin’ begin…..
12-Step Program for Broadband Addiction
We can’t cut the cord. Everything else is cut, cancelled, discarded or stored. The cats are gone, to a legal studio in East Cambridge. Number two son is gone, finally moved out by the force and finality of having no … Continue reading
We’re Going to Need Lots More Prisons
Better hurry up with that digital downloading. The government wants to impose penalties of up to ten years in prision for downloading a single file…. A draft bill recently circulated among members of the House judiciary committee would make it … Continue reading
Top Doc Backs Picking Your Nose – And Eating It!
Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor. Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier … Continue reading
Mums the Word
Pain. A transitory state of nerve excitation with an infinite number of causes and textures. Can be overcome with certain advanced mental techniques, or narcotics, or both. Preferably both. We are almost done with putting our stuff into storage. Most … Continue reading
St. Jean of East Cambridge
The Church of Days Later Savings has a new saint. Saint Jean of East Cambridge has appeared out of nowhere to offer sanctuary to the Dowbrigade cats for the duration of the Great Experiment. We DO believe in miracles. Jean … Continue reading
U-Haul Sucks
Despite having a “confirmed” reservation for YESTERDAY U-Haul STILL doesn’t have a truck for us (turns out “confirmed” means “depending on availability” and is basically a scam so you don’t go rent somewhere else), so we are busily moving an … Continue reading
Would Have Been Easier to Use Photoshop
The finished product of Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti’s "Ice Cube Project" is seen in Ilullissat, Greenland, Thursday, March 24, 2004. Evaristti used 3,000 liters (780 gallons) of dye used to highlight meat diluted with sea water, three fire hoses, … Continue reading
Moving On Out
It’s moving day, for better or worse. Already emotional and physical wrecks over the preliminaries, today we are supposed to get the bulk of our stuff out of 396 Salem St. in Malden just a few block down from Malden … Continue reading