Scene from my quarters this rainy Tuesday evening:
President Bill is on my green screen; he's Stating the Union and for lots of it I've had the audio set to a different source but I just switched back and he just "...welcomed all Americans, whether their ancestors arrived via the Mayflower or space ships, at Ellis Island or LAX..." I had a bowl of roasted vegetables, fresh from the oven in my cast-iron wok, and I was eating them with clunky Chinese chopsticks (the real bamboo kind).
Back to the podiatrist yesterday. He removed
the enormous dressing I'd been slogging around in
all weekend, and revealed the crater he created
Thursday; looked big to
me, even deeper than the previous, but on the
contrary he said it didn't hurt so bad because
it wasn't as deep. From now on I just cover the
wound with band-aids.
Interesting factoid from today's Salon: "GeoCities' member pages
alone claim 8% of the content on the Web." Elsewhere
an article in "Feed" about
"Levi"s new `Truth' ad campaign almost compelled
me to visit their site, but I suppressed that urge.
You've probably, but I haven't caught any of their
new ads, on television or elsewhere. Am I dangerously
isolated?
Long talk with B today. She's got a new boyfriend, seems promising and
she's glad there's been no sign of the previous one for a month now (he
became a stalking nightmare when she let him go). The ease with which
she finds new partners amazes me; she's suggested that I do
a personal ad (something she herself has not done).
Y2K Spotlight
"Time"s cover story: tried, but couldn't get into
it - my reaction was "nothing new". If you're interested
you can access it here. The better article might
be the "Utne Reader"s - I haven't read that either but I
like this recent "Salon" reaction
to their "Y2K Citizen's Action Guide". (Says that
"Culturally, Y2K could turn the long-simmering
irony vs. passion debate into, literally,
Armageddon.") And while I'm passing out Y2K links,
check this one for humor. It's
courtesy of my big boss in New Jersey, who has
unfortunately entered that cyber-newbie phase of
joke-forwarding.
G sends this image he shot at home with his
new digital camera. Did I do that? According to
my records this temari
is #141, from October 1995. Its core is a golf ball,
unlike the usual styrofoam. I stopped counting
after #150 - production was way down then; it's
practically zero now.
