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wednesday, july 18

It's going to be a busy day for me today. Macworld Expo, although exciting, means a lot of work (even if I am here in San Francisco), so I'm trying to savor the morning before stories start rolling in and it gets hectic. See me stress here

I read a spectacular story on the bus this morning about Sir Francis Drake's safe harbor on the west coast, which seems to have been up at Point Reyes. This is a fascinating story of a harbor that disappears and reappears every 50 years.

MWNY: Expo keynote live coverage. Happening now (8:18 pacific). New G4s, buncha software.

tuesday, july 17

"We believe that it is our calling, NAY... our duty to convince Billy Dee Williams that he should eat more Salsa, for if he were to do so, we believe he would become an unstoppable force of Smoothness!"

My cam is back up

At about 10 a.m., searchers found a pair of blue tennis shoes and a box cutter along the Piney Branch Parkway in Rock Creek Park. Police would not say whether the shoes were a men's or women's pair.

At 11 a.m. police found a used condom and an empry carton of Camels. Police would not say if the cigarettes were regular or menthol. At 11:32 a.m., officers saw a tree they hadn't noticed before, and commented on its "pretty foliage." At 11:46 a.m., one of the the officers noted that his stomach was growling. At about 12 noon, officers discovered a hot dog stand near the edge of the park, and began eating.

I don't want to seem cynical, but must every minute detail of the Levy investigation be published? This thing has gone completely O.J.

Images of Racism. Worth a look.

I live by routines and rituals. I'm not sure why, but I compulsively do the same things over and over again. When I skip some of my little rituals, things just aren't right for me all day long. One of these is listening to KQED radio as I get ready in the mornings. Today, I heard a "perspectives" segment by a guy named James Nestor, an office worker in South Park. Nestor was talking about how he enjoys the rolling blackouts. How they can be fun, and relieve some of the tedium that bored "office drones" experience every day. This struck me because I've said the same thing several times. I look at the periodic blackouts (and we haven't had one in a while, no thanks to President Dick Cheney) as snow days. They offer a break from the normal routine, and walking through a city wihout power--or just a section of the city--can give you a fresh perspective in much the same way Critical Mass, or a snowdrift can.

Anyway, I enjoyed Nestor's commentary, but then started to wonder how people get their perspectives on KQED. Ever wondered the same thing? Here's how.

We almost went on this ride. Now I'm feeling a little guilty that we did not.

monday, july 16

HAMOTAM has broken up, reformed, rebroken and reformed again. HAMOTAM is everyman. HAMOTAM is never the same song twice. Here is Fuego

missing intern David Kerns

The OS X Show, by yours truly, who would like to be at Expo, but would alltogether prefer to stay in SF.

There's this bubbling movement underway to "clean up" San Francisco, and it seems to be focusing on the mid Market / Civic Center area. Over the last couple of months, the propaganda for cleansing the city center has been progressively ratcheted up. On Friday, even the Fangzaminer got into the act with a histrionic report on all the sex offenders in the area (and it would have been frightening indeed had it appeared in a real newspaper. You know, one that can spell Wednesday). The campaign in already underway in earnest. Plans have already been hatched to transform the area. In the latest development, it looks like the Yups are coming. Luxury apartments will certainly change the character of the place, and put all sorts of yuppies on the ground who will demand the area be sanitized, which seems to be what the city wants.

I'm not an advocate of pee or poo. But nor do I want to live in Manhattan. The current plan seems to be "let's get the stinky folk away from UN Plaza." Fine. But where do you intend for them to go? I ride my bike through mid-Market every day. Some days I walk through. I've been accosted, I've nearly been urinated on, I've been frightened and I've been in a situation where I felt like I should protect an elderly woman walking near me. I've never been to one of the sex theaters, nor do I have any intention of going. Ever. Even if I wanted to go for a lark, I'm too paranoid about germs to ever step foot inside. I'm all for revitalizing the area. But I don't think that has to mean running all of the poor people and homeless out of there. Unless we can move them en masse into the Marina.

Undoubtedly you saw the missile defense test over the weekend and all of the associated propaganda. But if you're like most folks (me included) you don't know too much about the technology aside from the theory that missile come down from out the sky and we shoot 'em before they land. Well, want to see how Star Wars works? (Stop laughing. I only mean that in a theoretical sense.) Check out this Flash demo on the Guardian. I've got $5 that says you'll know more about missile defense than dubya does after watching this. It only takes a few seconds.

sunday, july 15

Harp has been saying similar things about Yoga Journal for some time now.

Google's Zeitgeist, like most everything else on the site, is amazing.

Can you speak Italian?

I wish I could.

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