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A visit from LAP Land
So fast forward to last Wednesday night, when I found myself at a shmooze event put on by the Silicon Alley Reporter folks at the W in San Francisco. It was fun. Jerry and Andrew were there. So were Ev, Dan, Denise, and Kevin Kelly, who it was fun to finally meet. (I should add that this was the Kevin Kelly. Not one of those other ones.) Anyway, toward the end of this thing I was talking with Andrew and Jerry when Andrew mentioned that he had just spoken to Casey. On the way home I was thinking that Casey's summer hospitality had gone unreciprocated for a bit too long, and it was time to catch up. Then the cell phone rang. It was Joyce, looking for help giving Casey and Max directions to our place from somewhere on the 99, north of Fresno. Synchonicity at work. Anyway, Casey and Max were coming up to Silicon Valley for some meetings around their SOHO Community Symposiums. The next morning I hauled them over to Bucks for breakfast (hey, look here: I just discovered that Jamis likes Kevin... see, it all hangs together). Bucks is fortuitously named, given the fact that even with the e-conomy in the shitter there's usually about a billion bucks of net worth sitting around the restaurant on the average morning, chowing down huevos rancheros. Yet even in Bucks' unique magnetic field old-fashioned celebrity has its attractions. No less than two people came up to say Hi after they recognized Max as the actor who played Wojo on Barney Miller. On Friday I had a long talk on the phone with Max about all kinds of stuff, including his organization, LAP.org, and his work with the SOHO Community Symposiums. It was interesting how much Stewart Brand's layers of time concept focusses conversation around infrastructure. Casey, Max and their friends are helping pull together community infrastructure. That's my take on it, anyway. They're good guys, it's good work, and I'm glad they're out there doing it.
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