Wednesday, I went to lunch with Colby's old roommate, Ming-Ming Hao. We went to a restaurant in Japantown called "Wa-Fu" or "On the bridge", which is on a building-to-building bridge. The udon was uninspired, the gyoza was pathetic, the decor was fluorescent hard plastic, the service was demented, but the curry was pretty good, all for $12 a plate.
Then I went over to Berkeley and visited Becca, whose cat Pepper is sick and has not gotten better. Pepper now has a feeding tube stapled to her forehead and running through her nose, down her esophagus, and into her stomach. On the other hand, Pepper has not gotten worse. But it may be that Becca will have to put her to sleep, simply because she has to feed Pepper every 2-3 hours around the clock and she can't keep it up, which is terribly sad. Then I went to Full Tilt for Software Freedom; I didn't have the $250 a plate for the fancy dinner fundraiser (which is described in this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,54570,00.html), but I could afford the $10 for the pinball fundraiser. Met lots of people there, including my friend Danny O'Brien, whom I hadn't seen in months, Heather Stern (starshine.org), Jim Dennis, Bruce Perens, Yoz Grahame (whom I first "met" by email in perhaps 1997, but had never met in person), Sam Ockman, Duncan MacKinnon, Henri Poole, Brad Templeton, Seth David Schoen (loyalty.org), and numerous other people, some of whom I've even forgotten, and with many of whom I talked for long periods of time. Very unfortunately, the venue was 21-and-up, ID required, so many of the people who should have attended were not allowed to do so. I got a chance to sit at Larry Lessig's feet for his final speech about how we can make the law not so idiotic and why we need to do so, and how we need to become more active. He's retiring from the lecture circuit now, unfortunately, so someone's going to have to take his place. The Wired article suggests it will be some 23-year-old. Perhaps I should encourage Seth to join Toastmasters. So I went to dinner (for me, "dinner" --- I was already plenty full, so I ordered a bowl of marinated olives) with Danny, Yoz, Lisa Rein, Cory Doctorow (boingboing.net), and Seth, at the 21st Amendment, where the Free Dmitri party had been. Gave Seth a ride home rather late; we chatted about many topics. Thursday, I slept rather late, then did my taxes and sent them off, then headed in to work at a client site. Didn't get as much done as I'd hoped, largely due to a short workday, but it worth going onsite. Thursday night, I went over to Seth's for a party celebrating LinuxWorld, and met lots more interesting folks, most especially including Bram Cohen, the author of BitTorrent, and Anirvan Chatterjee of Bookfinder. Sunah (sunahweb.com) said Becca was going to be able to attend Bab5 because Paul was coming up to pick her and Pepper both up. Today, I went to the client site again. Got a little more done, I think. I was going to go over to Becca's again --- taking care of a really sick cat alone and being home alone 24 hours a day in order to do it really sucks --- but I was relieved to find that Josh has come home early from his trip, so she doesn't have to take care of Pepper alone anymore. Turns out she decided not to go to Bab5 when Pepper messed up the floor at her house anyway. Tonight Beatrice and I can spend time together alone, awake, for the first time in days. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kragen Sitaker <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/> Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died in August of 2002. This is a terrible loss after which the world will never be the same. http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/2002-August/013974.html
