Jan. 15th, 2003

prog: (coffee)
Do world-spanning empires fall due to something inherent in their very natures, or is it just that nobody done it correctly so far?

Would Rome have fallen if it had access to 21st-century communication technology to keep its borders strong and its leaders accountable?

This is something I'll think about more frequently as U.S. foreign policy increasingly resembles a game of "Civ". Pray for goodie huts.

Fame

Jan. 15th, 2003 11:26 am
prog: (coffee)
Well, I'm starting to get random email from people with bizarre Mac-related questions. How do you mount a .hqx disk image on Linux? Errr...

Actually I'm pleased that this seems to be the first sort of book feedback I'm getting. It comes in much worse varieties. (And I'm told to expect that to arrive as well.)

(And truthfully I got lots of strange questions back when I ran the Mac open source software site. So it's like old times agian, really.)
prog: (blair_witch)
...there'd be a picture here of the performance artist in Park Street station this morning, a man dressed in flowing gold robes, with matching gold headscarf and facepaint, sitting on a stool and holding a violin, with a live blue parakeet perched on the bow. (It was trained, not fastened; I watched him set up.)

As he set up some T cops stood nearby, talking about previous adventures they'd had chasing down panicky birds that had gotten trapped in the subway; clearly they were nervous about this guy's act. When he took his seat, they approached him, and one cop said "I'll give ya some money" and dropped change in the man's money-bucket. I myself become nervous, fearing that the scene would get tense, so I didn't stick around on the spot, but I did see that, when my train came, the cops were still watching him, at the front of a rather sizeable crowd. I heard singing, but not violin noises. Very strange.

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