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| Wednesday, September 25, 2002 |
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Hollywood stories 
| | Dorothy Parker said "I prefer younger men. Their stories are shorter." Fortunately, my storytelling charms weren't wasted on Moxie at lunch yesterday. |
| | She's also funnier and smarter. Get this: in some ways (like, with programming and stuff), she's more technical than I am. |
| | Curious to get her take on Digital Hollywood. She's there today. I was there yesterday and the day before. Can't take time to write a report (or do any other real work) yet, since I'm in the middle of moving and just blogging a bit in the midst of checking for emails that tick. |
A little levity
| | Thanks to Kevin for the link. |
Off the record
| | I'm not comfortable pointing to this. It appears to be an email from Hilary Rosen to honchos at Real, Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies with an interest in streaming media businesses. It recruits them to a P2P music download deterrence stagegy meeting. |
| | I don't think it's authentic because I don't believe Hilary Rosen would do this kind of relationship-building by email, much less in impersonal one. |
| | But relationshp-building is what she needs, since she's done her best to kill off much of the business Real and Microsoft once had in supplying streaming servers to Webcasters. |
Will Flog For Fun
| | Well, no. Which gets to our point. |
| | Nowhere, among all our proliferating standard and alternative Health practices, will you find the one thing we want, and we've always wanted, no matter what. |
| | No, not sex. Do babies want sex? No. Tickle one and get your answer. See? |
| | Babies want FUN, dammit! That's the best therapy for kids, geezers and the rest of us who continue to deny that we used to be one and we're bound to be the other (unless something worse happens) and that the best we can hope for along the way is to have a litle bit of.... What? |
| | Yes! FUN. Fun is THE issue. Where the fuck is the FUN in Health? What have we come to when even Alternative health fails to include the only damn thing we really want? Hah? |
| | Yes indeedy. That's what our good friend Bernie, he of DeepFun.com and DeepFun.blog (attention ICANN... you heard it here first) is here to sell you. |
| | Sure, Bernie gives you Fun For Free on his site and his blog; but Fun With Bernie is worth far more if you buy it in quantity in the form of one of his Retreats. |
Found!
| | Heading down to Digital Hollywood on Monday morning, I got a call from a guy at Moscone Center. |
| | "Are you missing some kind of Apple thing?" he asked. |
| | "Wow! That's great! Thanks! But it's so weird.. I called Security and Lost & Found after it disappeared. That was more than a month ago. They said nobody had seen it. Everybody I talked to at the time agreed that it must have been stolen." |
| | "Well, it just showed up in Engineering. Somebody found it in a corner." |
| | I guess somebody picked it up, didn't know what it was (or figured it wasn't valuable) and tossed it aside. Then it kicked around like a hockey puck for a month until somebody looked on the bottom of the thing and saw my business card taped there. |
| | Anyway, when I got home last night there was a Fedex package on the doorstep with the Airport inside, looking no worse for its month on the lam. Taped to it was the business card of Moscone's Loss Prevention Manager/Public Agency Liaison. Good man. |
| | I haven't checked the thing out yet, but I'm sure it's fine. |
| | So I figure that new baby belongs to all of us. Creative suggestions for its collective use are welcomed. |
| | And a big thanks to the good people at Moscone for getting this back to me. |
Making the most of reality
| | Yesterday I hardly blogged but still got some hang time with bloggers in the realworld-o-sphere. |
| | First was J.D., with whom I co-attended Digital Hollywood. We had a good time being a couple of Guys from Jersey. When we weren't being Professional Journalists, of course. |
| | Next was Moxie, with whom I enjoyed a terrific lunch on the back patio of one of her favorite restaurants in West Hollywood. We talked about all kinds of stuff, but one item that sticks in my mind was our co-realization that blogging to a huge degree thrives in the Googlesphere. As we guessed, it turns out the term has already been used — but only in four documents. Let's see if it grows. |
| | Next was Dave Sifry, whose travel vector and mine fortuitously crossed. While we were having dinner at a chain steak house, my cell phone rang. An automated voice asked me if I wanted to "join a conference with: 'Znzz Brzznzzn.'" I had no idea what it was about, but fortunately Dave did. It was Tuesday, he said. That's when I'm always on The Linux Show. I had completely forgotten. But fortunately, I had a surprise guest for the show: Dave. So I called in, talked a bit about Digital Hollywood and other news snibbets, then handed the phone over to Dave, who talked at length about what's new at Sputnik while I chowed some steak. |
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