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 Saturday, January 12, 2002
started 1/12/2002; 11:36:25 AM - last post 1/13/2002; 3:49:31 AM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, January 12, 2002 
1/12/2002; 3:36:25 PM (reads: 6608, responses: 6)
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I'm too old for this. Apparently. 
| | When we go on trips I sometimes hide my backup drive — a little 60Gb FireWire number, not much bigger than a cassette tape box — in a drawer or someplace. |
| | Now I can't find it and it's driving me nuts. |
| | [Later... I found it. Had to patiently retrace my steps, and think again... exactly what was I doing when... ? It worked, but I felt like I was in brain damage rehab, reacquainting myself with the formerly obvious.] |
Ride on
| | Craig took time off from his blog, and pretty much everything else, to run Twelve Horses. Last week he climbed off the saddle, and nwo he's back on his blog again. |
Have no party fear
| | Last night I was standing in the vast foyer of the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, dressed as a nun, complete with a string of rosary beads the size of eyeballs, like the one the giant atop Jack's beanstalk would have used if he were Catholic. I was there to secure good seating at the "Sing-Along Sound of Music" event, which was a hoot. |
| | Naturally a photographer from the local paper spotted me and insisted on shooting a picture. Being a good former newspaper reporter and photographer, as well as a former PR guy who hasn't lost his chops, I said "Come on across the street. I've got the rest of my family over there, including my wife, the Baroness, and my kid, Friedrich." We also had our friend Susan Camusi, a former Hollywood costumer dressed as Heidi (or, as she put it, "an extra."). |
| | The result is a vast above-the-fold picture on the front page of this Morning's Santa Barbara News-Press — and on the paper's Web site's front page too. Unfortunately, you have to be a subscriber to the paper to see the whole story. I hate that. The SB News-Press, like all other papers, would be worth more if its archives were exposed to the world by the Web. It's sales value rounds to nil. |
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Mary Lu Wehmeier - Re: Saturday, January 12, 2002
1/12/2002; 10:03:36 PM (reads: 712, responses: 1)
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Dear Sister Doc,
I see you have another bad habit. <All puns intended.>
No wonder you moved from the confines of SF/SV. Hmmm... ;-)
Nice pics of the family. It sure looks like you had fun.
FYI: It appears your buddies at the SBNews have locked up the news sections of their site to "subscribers only."
I'm trying Radio. Dave's got a winner! I had it up and running in 35 mins.
More later...
Mary Lu
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Doc Searls - Re: Saturday, January 12, 2002
1/12/2002; 11:01:00 PM (reads: 883, responses: 0)
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Great to hear from you!
Yeah, sorry about the SBNP site lockup. The way it lookd from here it was open. It used to be, but their corporate anus clamped up, I guess.
As for Radio, I just downloaded it for OS X. Need time to get it up and running though. But I'll be all over it. Count on it.
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Bernie Dunham - Re: Saturday, January 12, 2002
1/12/2002; 11:23:37 PM (reads: 1572, responses: 0)
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In thirty minutes Neil Bauman of Geek Cruises is hosting the PERL Whirl Coctail Party. We've been out to sea for 2 hours. This is what our business plan calls a "working vacation."
I boarded early around 9:30 am to set up the 802.11b CISCO Aironet 350 wireless Internet acccess for about 30 Perl developers. Things are finally stabalized at 7 pm. While the Holland America Veendam was in port, we had 11 mbps on two decks covering all of the seminar rooms and most of the public areas in between. I'm in the Java Cafe, outside of the Wajang Theater, (there's not an XML Bagel Shop yet) testing the limits of the signal from the last access point in the chain. We set up three access points with repeating signals on one channel, and after getting the access points relocated after going to sea, the WLAN is cruisin'. The geeks have 24 hour 11 mbps Internet access without restrictions. Everyone has been configuring their laptops in little alpha geek tribal circles in the cushy lounge areas. There is a sense of participating in a collaborative problem set, getting all of the operating systems with the numerous wireless adapters to first ping the gateway router, and then read email. It's not rocket science but it's more fun than being Manager of Information Systems at a gas grill manufacturer back home in Tennessee.
Sunday I think I'll go snorkeling on Holland America's private island Half Moon Cay. I wonder if the access points can be hit from the beach?
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jeneane - Re: Saturday, January 12, 2002
1/13/2002; 3:49:45 AM (reads: 801, responses: 0)
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Sister Mary Doc,
You know, the church is looking for nuns these days--the old ones are dying off. At least you made it *above* the death notices in that annoying little paper that won't let me in because I'm not a subscriber.
Hope you had a blast... sure looks like you did. Say a Hail Mary for me, will ya?
-jeneane
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Andreas Schaefer - Sound of Music
1/13/2002; 5:42:37 AM (reads: 718, responses: 1)
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What's the deal with Americans and "The sound of Music"?
I was never really big on musicals in the first place, but with me being
50% Austrian and 50% German i have a real problem watching especially
this thing.
I don't want to put down other people's opinions, i'm just very interested
to learn what exactly it is that makes TSoM so special to so many people?
I don't get it...
Andreas
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Doc Searls - Re: Sound of Music
1/13/2002; 7:49:31 AM (reads: 1046, responses: 0)
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In fact the musical got savaged critically at the time, and many times since, for being bad history from all directions. It's not even close to the story of the Von Trapps, and takes liberties with historical matters as well. And, of course, most of the music is, well, Rogers & Hammerstein.
And that's what none of us will ever get out of our minds. The music is a sugar for which we never lose our taste, no matter how much we develop a palate for fine musical foods.
The Sing -Along Sound of Music is in fact a kind of send-up of the original movie. Have you ever seen Mystery Science Theater 3000? It's a show set in the far future where wise-cracking robots watch old, bad sci-fi movies and goof on them from start to finish. That's what Sing-Along Sound of Music is about. Everybody in the audience is yelling at the screen and cracking jokes between singing along with the songs, often with alternative lyrics.
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