Sunday, April 29, 2001
posted at 9:04 PM
"Most people have a linear view of the future, but I think we'll see more than a hundred years of progress in the 21st century. We're doubling the rate of progress every ten years now, so we'll see 20,000 years of progress this century, not a hundred."
-- Ray Kurzweil
posted at 1:21 AM
Saturday, April 28, 2001
"At times I would forget where I was. Cairo? Jakarta? Mexico City? Everywhere there are those same islands of wealth amid the poverty, like the green areas of Manila that are private golf clubs instead of public parks."
-- Sebastiao Selgado
posted at 12:54 AM
Friday, April 27, 2001
You know the routine. Take all the stuff and feel better.
posted at 7:29 PM
Thursday, April 26, 2001
>I think I may have to finally submit to over-the-counter allergy
>medication. What do you recommend? Seldane? Chlor-Trimeton?
Congratulations! Glad to hear you've taken "the plunge." Our next
meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Great Hall at Cooper
Union. Hope to see you there!
I'm partial to Sudafed 12-hour. It has the best combination of toxic
chemicals for the price.
posted at 3:51 PM
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Dear Sir,
While it hurts me to have fawn to a man who used to force me at stun gun point to clean his scuba equipment with my tongue during our benighted college years, I am in need of your expert opinion.
I have a Russian economist friend who is getting into an e-commerce gig and assuming since I write for a business publication would have some clue as to e-business and the like. I thought I'd check out the knoweldge of someone who knows the difference between HTML and HIV. Do have any thoughts on good sites on problem solving and advice on B to B, B to C (if any such companies still exist)or any books on the subject that aren't written by the same management theorist idiots or business journalists (ouch) who built the whole dot-com pyramid in the first place?
Thanks in advance. Meanwhile I must run as I hear drunken shouting in the courtyard, and I am pretty sure it is not my wife.
Best,
Ed (Noyes)
posted at 7:43 PM
sigh:
AS THE ECONOMY slows, newspapers everywhere are feeling the pain. The Star Tribune is no exception... Management also unveiled the Star Tribune Special Time Away from Work Program, designed to encourage employees to request up to four months' unpaid time off or design alternative work schedules, such as a four-day work week.
posted at 2:41 PM
I hate this sort of sentimental bullshit.
posted at 2:19 AM
Boredom is the threshold of great deeds.
-- Walter Benjamin
posted at 2:13 AM
Someone who is bored lives exclusively in the present; he is totally immersed in the interval of duration. For him, the future is too far away to be interesting or to offer any possibility of hope. Thus ennnui is neither directed toward the past, as in nostalgia, nor to the future, as in adventure, but to an exclusive present.
-- Georges Teyssot, Boredom and Bedroom
posted at 2:12 AM
Brando no longer a contender for Scary Movie
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the end, it was an offer he couldn't accept.
Marlon Brando has dropped out of a reported $2 million deal to play a four-day cameo role in ``Scary Movie 2'' because of continued illness, the company making the film said Tuesday.
``We regret to announce that due to continued illness, Marlon Brando is unable to complete the filming of his cameo role in 'Scary Movie 2,' Elizabeth Clark, senior vice president of publicity for Dimension Films, said.
``Unfortunately, due to his health issues and unavailability, we must now recast his role. We wish Mr. Brando a speedy recovery,'' she added in a statement.
posted at 2:07 AM
Monday, April 23, 2001
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so ure who the they are, but we know they're there."
-- George W. Bush, January 21, 2000
posted at 6:00 PM
Friday, April 20, 2001
"Our goal in Quebec is to build a hemisphere of liberty," Mr. Bush said in remarks to reporters on the White House lawn before departing for Quebec and his rendezvous with
the leaders of 33 other North and South American countries.
posted at 4:37 PM
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posted at 4:05 PM
Thursday, April 19, 2001
duboisnyt: i told my friend bruce about "go go gadget alice" and he wrote this following song:
alice's camel has no hump,
alice's camel has one hump,
alice's camel has two humps,
and an e-bike,
and a roto-tiller,
and an underwater electric knife sharpener.
Zipern: that's going on zipern.com
posted at 3:19 PM
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Crouching Tiger
posted at 3:31 PM
By the way, your headline: Sell, Sell, Sell reminded
me of an awkward moment earlier today where I proved
how inept I am in the real world and why I'll never be
rich and will probably have to borrow money to pay for
my future kids' education. As I was waiting for the
elevator to sneak down for a smoke, someone who works
here - I don't know his name - youngish, blond hair, a
real comer, player, a click-click finger gun greeting
guy, asked how I was and then said, "strange day..."
I said yeah, thinking he meant all the lay-offs but in
this business I get the sense that talking about
lay-offs while they're happening is kind of like
congratulating a pitcher in the fifth inning of a
no-hitter - you just don't do it. Anyway, he starts
going on about how the Fed has cut interest rates - a
fact I don't really understand to begin with (perhaps
since all of this doesn't effect number 1) but I
suppose is good. He went on about how the Dow and
Nasdeq are both up and I stood there hoping he
wouldn't ask me for my analysis of the situation. I
said, "wow, that's cool" like some fool, then there
was a silence, the elevator didn't come and we both
stood there he high on the stock market, me down on
ignorance and then I said, "it'll probably go down
tomorrow..." and he said, "that's not the point.
Everyone's selling today." I nodded and said, "The
climate is so strange," he nodded, furrowed his brow
thinking I was suddenly talking about the weather, and
then the ammendment of my comment, "Financially, I
mean" was drowned out by the elevator chime and three
other smokers inside bouncing on their toes for their
nicotine fix.
I guess I'll never be a financial wiz and watching
Wall Street on Cinemax last night only added to my
repulsion and confusion.
-- The Gin Man
posted at 3:26 PM
Strength Through Failure on Jiang Zemin and Larry King:
I've noticed their likeness. I place them both in the reptilian "mugwump" category. Watch Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch" and you'll see what I mean.
posted at 3:08 PM
posted at 2:37 PM
what is this, some sort of elaborate hoax? we all get there and it's just him sitting giggling on the floor in a pile of ketchup and feces, eating out of a bag of psylocibin. plus april 17th was tonight (tue), not wednesday. maybe i'll stop by anyway,
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posted at 2:35 PM
Separated at Birth?
posted at 2:06 PM
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Tank-Tops for Men, Women, Kids Say "Wife Beater"
(WOMENSENEWS)--A Dallas, Tex., company is specializing in selling men's tank
T-shirts emblazoned with the words, "Wife Beater," including styles for
women, children and infants. The small sizes have the words "Lil
Wife-Beater."
posted at 3:13 PM
Monday, April 16, 2001
Whether they are infantrymen struggling to survive the rigors of combat and military life, tuberculosis patients ambivalent about returning to the competitive fray of real life, thwarted artists toiling in boring day jobs, or frustrated young couples trying to cope with children and marital discord, most of Yates's characters share a dolorous passivity. By one character's definition — "Persons with talent make things happen,"
"persons without talent let things happen to them" — they are uniquely untalented at life.
Kakutani on Richard Yates
posted at 9:35 PM
Brando to appear in 'Scary Movie 2'
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Marlon Brando is a legendary actor known for such classic
films as ``A Streetcar Named Desire'' ``On the Waterfront'' and ... ``Scary Movie 2''?
Producers of ``Scary Movie,'' one of last summer's biggest -- and silliest -- hits, said Tuesday that Brando had agreed to appear in the sequel, which they are touting as the 77-year-old actor's first ``flat-out comic role.''
posted at 6:37 PM
Have I told you that on the other side of my cubicle is this hideously irritating chelsea boy who sells ads for an interior design mag and speaks REALLY LOUD?!
Right now, I'm listening to him coo in babytalk to his boyfriend:
"You want baked beans with the veggie burgers? Why don't I get the cheddar-flavored burgers this time so we can mix it up a bit. Do we have rolls at home? What about cucumber? I'll get a cucumber... All right Mary.. see you doll."
It's like this all day long. If it's not veggie burgers, it's Survivor, or Bridget Jones, or Mary Kate and Ashley (olson), or (his favorite) The Gilmore Girls..
I may have a nervous breakdown...
-- AllnStrtt
posted at 6:27 PM
Thursday, April 12, 2001
Diane read something about kozmo this morning that said that several kozmo delivery people were spotted wandering dazed around town. the writer compared them to japanese soldiers in wwII who didn't realize when the war was over...
-- AllnStrtt
posted at 3:04 PM
At 1:30 I get in the elevator going up to the ninth floor. The cab is crowded with the usual 7th Avenue polygot: garment district salesmen, the working middle-class, a delivery guy, a few extant dot-commers.
A short black man with an Urban Fetch jacket, Urban Fetch shoulder bag and bicycle pants is the last to enter. The elevator is very crowded.
"Goddamn it!" scowls Mr. American Psycho, a WASPy, manicured suit going to the 14th floor. "Did you really need to push 5, 7, and 9?"
"I didn't push them," defends the delivery guy.
"Sure you didn't," mutters American Psycho. They're standing maybe eight inches apart. I'm directly behind them. Everyone is uncomfortably close and the tension is thick as wax.
Somebody gets out on the second floor. "Look man, I didn't push them. Maybe you pushed them."
American Psycho is rapidly losing whatever composure he once had. "Yeah right. I pushed it. I pushed it! Fuck you!"
The elevator stops on 5 and somebody else gets out. "See!" says the delivery guy. I didn't press five. Right, no apology. Just like I thought!"
"Let's not fight on the elevator," I politely interject. Nobody seems to hear me.
"I never said you pressed five!" lies American Psycho. "Who the hell are you? Do you ever want to come into this building again!?! Who the hell do you work for anyway?!?" Apparently American Psycho hasn't noticed that the delivery guy is a walking billboard for Urban Fetch.
The cab stops at 7 and the delivery guy gets off. "What's the matter with you? You're an asshole," he states plainly and accurately.
American Psycho is red-faced and exploding with rage. "Yeah, yeah? Well fuck you! FUCK YOU!! Mr. SHORT IN STATURE!!"
I got out at the ninth floor.
posted at 2:24 PM
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
Truly great article and an admirable action. But I definitely reject the horse semen usage and the care-free attitude they have toward its procurement...
- Strength Through Failure on the Pieing of NYT correspondent Michael Wines
posted at 12:40 PM
In my neighborhood, on Ave A + 1st Street in fact, there is a super-cheezy velvet-roped club called "Shampu." For the past few weeks, however, the first half of the neon sign has been blown out.
It is funny to see big goomba guys and girls in tight jeans and feathered hair waiting in the cold to get into a club called "PU."
-- AllnStrtt
posted at 12:38 PM
Friday, April 06, 2001
These people should be shot:
"Before you can inspire ... you must first connect."
But surely there are a few moments too sacred, too special, to be bought and sold. I would have thought Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech was one of them.
A condemnation from Roger Ebert of all people
posted at 5:08 PM
Thursday, April 05, 2001
Her bridesmaids want to have the bachelorette party. i thought lucky
chang's would be a good idea..... but now there's talk of hunk mania. are
they just extra stupid?
i'm not going.
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posted at 1:36 PM
Monday, April 02, 2001
As boy Beavers learn, the beaver is a bucktoothed beady-eyed wonder. Swimming like a torpedo, it can close its ears under water and close its lips behind chisel-sharp incisors to chew submerged bark. In the dinosaur era, giant beavers the size of golf carts roamed North America, foraging to maintain 800-pound bulks. -- NYT
posted at 10:32 PM
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