I’m making the format a bit more structured and putting more stuff in the links and downloads. I’ve been reading screeds by Seth Godin. He’s a marketing guy and has good ideas about websites and such. I saw a book in the libe while I was looking for books on Flash called The Big Red Fez. That led me to the other stuff he’s done. And I’m blogging in my underwear (my wife said to say that.) Not much else-we’re taking care of a friend’s pets while she’s on vacation. Woo hoo. It’s been super hot and hard to sleep.
My exciting life: a longtime, very old member of our church died. She was able to visit on Sunday twice before she passed-I think that’s no coincidence… Church Sunday, hot, swim, sick on Monday-very upset stomach and nothing made it better. We had a small blackout, cleaned the fishtank and the rest of the house, a friend of Erika’s visited, signed another year lease here, computer died. Walked the dog, the laptop is at home until the computer is fixed.
Issues and current events: Sharon is dying-not surprising-I wish they had just let him go when he originally got sick. Hussein was on a hunger strike-collapsed-feeding tube-final arguments-he’s berating the court-who knows how this will end? Oh, wait-they’re going to convict him and execute him. Lebanon isn’t just a proxy war…I said it was but of course it’s more complicated than that. Andrea Yates is not guilty by reason of mental defect-they tried but it’s too clear that she was psychotic.
Links and downloads: Hoax? Ad campaign? Billboards in NY, LA, Chicago. A PI show on Court TV?, Joseph Goldstein interview, Yoism-open source religion, Open Garden-MindTouch Dream, Deki, Experimental Game Lab, AJAX Code Camp, Squeak, World Community Grid, Hack your life, Simkit, Thinglab, An Early History of Smalltalk, The Decline of Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “With almost any body movement or any phrase in any language, you can indicate that you’d like to buy the item.” The Big Red Fez