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Saturday, May 24, 2003
Über-Fi 
| | Wireless in New York fucking OWNS. Damn, it's amazing. |
| | The NYCwireless nodes for Tompkins seemed to be down. But we still got on through one of the dozen or so residential nodes that were open. Then we took a cab down to City Hall Park, where we're sitting now, on a bench facing the fountain, getting a great signal that we're putting to fine use. |
| | Now Steve Lewis has joined us, and we're talking about Dan Lenihan, a college buddy who grew up, like Steve, in this very neighborhood. |
From the Greatest City in the World
| | It's foggy, drizzling, and the terror alert level is high. I love waking up in New Yawk. The traffic below sounds like surf with horns. Looking up, the Chrysler building disappears into the mists above the 40th floor. In the other direction is Tudor City, with penthouses that look like jewell boxes. One of them served as Willem Dafoe's place in the Spiderman movie. |
| | I'm heading out later to check out the wireless scene, which doesn't exactly suck here in Britt's apartment: |
| | As you see, Britt's place is also a Powerbook cloning & incubation facility. Not in the picture is my little Linux (Lindows) laptop. Most of the evening I used the 17" Powerbook (in front of me there) as a heat shield to protect my legs from the Linbook, which has a great little form factor, but comes with a fan you can use to dry your hair. In addition to running hot as a stove, it blasts exhaust down at your left thigh. The big PB is no bargain, either. It runs substantially hotter than my old Titanium, which is the middle unit in the picture. |
| | Being guys, we discussed laptops at length, and came to the conclusion (I think it was Britt's, but I'm not sure.) that these giant Powerbooks are "the computing equivalent of a big dick." |
| | Irrelevantly (to that last piont) I like the one I'm borrowing a lot. Except for the heat issue, it's the best laptop I've ever used, by a wide margin (very wide: the mother has the acreage of a cafeteria tray). Last week I produced a DVD with it. Or rather, about 20 of them. |
| | Anyway, Flemming is here to hack with Britt on Xpertweb. They showed me some of the Digital ID-type stuff they were up to last night. Very cool. Innovative, simple and hopefully viral as well. Makes me think they should be at Digital ID World next Fall. |
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