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ODC Dancing Downtown 2005 19 years ago
The ODC dance company has been around San Francisco for a long time. My wife and I caught them lately in the first part of their Dancing Downtown 2005 show. Modern art is an interesting thing. It gets derided quite a bit because people just don't see the art in a canvas painted a uniform color…

Electric Candyland 19 years ago
So the story might as well start at Spaceballs. My friend's wife's best friend's cousin's husband (I had to be corrected on this) is running the Off Market Theater in San Francisco. Lately, I went to see their latest fun bit of theater, Electric Candyland. The tagline is "Technology is sweet…

First post in a while.... 19 years ago
I haven't felt motivated to post here lately, so it's link-o-rama time... From MIT Technology Review "New technology typically has a five-year development cycle. The U.S. technology business stopped being serious about research in 2000 and the results are showing now. People have a little more…

I voted... on paper 20 years ago
So the rumors are true. Santa Clara county voting workers are NOT going to tell you that you have the option of voting on paper. And, they give people who voted on paper a different sticker than the people who voted on a eat-my-vote machine . Oh yeah, and they also only have about a hundered…

Random Stories 20 years ago
I was told by a cow-orker that I don't update often enough. So here's some more random stories: I really want a TV-B-Gone . If the guy who invented them wasn't already a millionaire, I'd say he should be a millionaire. I was recruiting for ye company at UCLA and then I visited various folks in LA…

"Confessions of a Telecommuter" filming 20 years ago
Oren is doing another movie, " Confessions of a Telecommuter ". Therefore, I have the honor, nay, the privilege of catering for his movie, yet again. I really spoil these folks. It's a source of personal pride for me to have Oren's films to be, at the very least, what is hopefully the best…

My thoughts on Sport Pilot 20 years ago
It should be no surprise to most folk who know me that I'm a huge aerospace buff. I mean, I drove out to see Space Ship One launch, got all emotional seeing the Concorde shortly before it was decommissioned, and mourned the loss of the Columbia. I've been this way for as long as I can remember. I…

Mike Melvill: What a guy! 20 years ago
The pilot was last seen striding towards SpaceShipOne saying "Smoke Me A Kipper, I'll Be Back For Breakfast" (Courtesy timesprout ) Sunday afternoon, my wife and I piled into our car for the trek down to Mojave to see Space Ship One. The required items were verified to be present (folding chair…

Switching to a cooler ISP (and stuff) 20 years ago
So, if you haven't noticed, stuff has been broken around wirewd.com lately. Why? Because I was forced to do some stuff that I've been meaning to do for a while by circumstance I'm going to save my rant about my old ISP for a later entry. I want to see how they handle refunding me my money. But…

A rant about bay area radio 20 years ago
I consider myself to have pretty reasonable tastes in music. I like to listen to a lot of stuff, ranging from industrial music to techno to disturbing stuff to pop music to metal to eighties retro to jazz and sometimes even over into bluegrass and blues and classical. Generally, I tend to…