Author: substitute

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I don’t watch a lot of TV, mainly because I work inside the TV and I have to do stuff for my job with it, and then I don’t want to any more.

But I watch TV in hotels, especially after a day of driving making me something something. So I got all caught up.

All TV is “reality” TV now. I don’t just mean that there are lots of those shows on. More than half the things I saw were shot and presented like reality shows. An otherwise interesting program about crab fishermen and their battle with the elements, etc. was edited like Survivor or MTV”s Real World: little profiles of the fishermen, flashbacks in grainy B&W, switching among “contestants”. Same cheesy narration, same faux-introspective interviews, the whole thing.

Couldn’t watch the “News” for more than 10 seconds at a time. Wow, that was painful.

I finally found an in-depth documentary about a years-long criminal investigation of gambling, corruption, organized crime, and manipulation of information for financial gain. The writing was opinionated but balanced, the story had nuance and detail, and it revealed the seamy underbelly of a popular activity.

It was about fixing boxing matches, and it was on ESPN2.

Right, then, back to not watching TV so much.

This is sad.

Going on at least 3 years now, they have not succeeded in securing the linux kernel new version announce list.

From: seba@webspiration.net
Subject: Re: Euro Finanzas te invita a comercializar los mejoeres productos de trading
Date: May 2, 2005 12:17:23 AM PDT
To: linux-kernel-announce@vger.kernel.org

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san francisco

Good slice of pizza washed down with big Sapporo. Guy at liquor store was friendly. Neighborhood lousy with art students. Turn on the hotel TV: first thing I see is a hippie playing a nose flute, backed by a guy on bongos.

Tomorrow: a visit to Aquarius Records, I think. Then Go4. Yay.

Also there was a billboard for an anti-spyware software I’ve never heard of

Hi. I’m in San Francisco. Fairly uneventful 6.5 hours on the road. Lots of hot rods out on display, all driven by near identical sixtysomething white guys with facial hair and ball caps. A weird incident involving a Bronco with its flashers on and four members of the Mongols motorcycle gang swerving about looking tough. Lots of RVs towing smaller vehicles, which is unexceptional, except that one of them had both a motorcycle and a helicopter in its trailer. Now that’s a vacation.

I was behind a Toyota hybrid geekmobile with the license GOATCHZ. Someone gordonzola knows?

I want to see all you SFers and deeply, slowly, passionately tongue kiss you. No idea how it will work since I can’t plan for shit on my vacations.

I’m going to find pizza or something and alcohol now.

underwear

I just bought underwear. Usually I do this at a bigbox store and get generic cheap underpants & socks. This time I went to a discounter and got fancy rich people underwear & socks for the same money.

Jesus CHRIST there was a lot of packaging. Getting briefs out of a package was like opening up a new iPod or something. I’m used to just ripping open the bag-o-cloth and dumping it in the washer. After 15 minutes I have three different pieces of tape on me and my trash can is full of cardboard on which there are pictures of well-muscled young gay men.

I bet rich people spend all their time fighting packaging.

You have now read my internet diary article about my underwear. You’re glad!