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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool. E-mail: ashbc@aol.com Current Obsessions watching reading playing links
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june 28, 2001
When I travel to the west coast, I usually bring at least two books with me, sometimes three in case I get bored of the other two.
On the way to San Fran, I read In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, a tragedy that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. A great book with lots of grotesque details. The Essex left from Nantucket, sailed south in the Atlantic, around South America into the Pacific, and was attacked by a large sperm whale. The crew were forced into their smaller whaling boats. Dehydration, poor judgement and cannibalism followed. They found the captain of the ship curled up in a boat, sucking on the marrow of his poor crewmen. Worse, the captain's nephew was among the picked clean bones found in the captain's boat. This is all a true story. A great read, I must say.
I have lots to write about my trip, which I will do at some point. I had my laptop with me, but was unable to log on because the laptop is running Windows 2000 and I had installed AOL 5.0, rather than 6.0 -- AOL 5.0 doesn't like Windows 2000. I will post stuff about my trip in next few days.
Congrats to Neil Gaiman. His latest book, American Gods, will debut at #10 on New York Times Best Seller List. If you haven't purchased it yet, do it right now and read it. It's gooooood. june 21, 2001
Well, I'm off to San Francisco for about a week for vacation. It's the first week long vacation I've taken since my beach trips in high school and college. In fact, the last real vacation I took (that didn't last quite a week, I don't think) would probably be Walt Disney World last May. It was an interesting trip, a story that is too long for right now.
I will attempt to post logs from the road with this new laptop I recently snagged off ebay. It is a small laptop, about as tall as a Coke can, and weighs about 2.5 lbs. It appears to work so far, though the directions are all in Japanese. june 6, 2001
According to his journal, Neil Gaiman is now writing a circus. Never occurred to me that one could write a circus.
june 5, 2001
All your clicks are belong to us. According to E-Commerce News: Report: Four Web Sites Control Half of Surfing Time, AOL, Yahoo, Napster and Microsoft control 50% of all web surfing. More interesting is that 14 companies control 60% of online time -- down from 110 websites in March 1999.
may 27, 2001
may 24, 2001
My favorite albums of all time. In no particular order, but with a bit more weight given to number one and two. Though any of them could easily be a number one.
1. Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits may 15, 2001
may 13, 2001
Douglas Adams passed away on Friday, May11. Unbelievable. Unreal.
I'll let Neil Gaiman talk for a while: may 10, 2001
I'm a big fan of HBO's From Earth to The Moon. This weekend, I saw a small teaser for their next mini-series, Band of Brothers. I picked up the book it is based on, Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. I had reserved the book from the library (or, libary first, but they reserved the big print version. The large letters disturbed me so much, I broke down and just purchased the book, with the normal, small, sophisticated print. Kind of like comparing the college rule paper, which I love, and the large rule that you used in elementary school.
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