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I will freely admit that a nice feature of the O'Reilly weblog is that a lot of people read it. It seems that whenever I mention a person there, I find myself getting email from that person within a day or two. The Internet is very large. So tonight I got mail from Cliff Johnson, which is pretty neat. Have shot a couple mails back and forth already.

In a strange sort of syncronicity with other recent thoughts of mine, he writes that he was a filmmaker for 20 years before getting involved in computers at all. (This was to explain why he doesn't play many computer games; from his cinematic standpoint, all the examples he's seen fail to tell their stories right, if they have interesting stories to begin with.) (Yes, he describes himself as a film snob. I can respect this.)