February 2002

I have a Bacon number of 3.

I checked it with The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia.

I was an extra in Up From the Depths (1979) with Sam Bottoms
Sam Bottoms was in Gardens of Stone (1987) with Elias Koteas
Elias Koteas was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon
Therefore, my Bacon number is 3.

What’s this about?

The Long Con: Enron.
Enron Designed Fake Trading Floor – Former Employee Claims No Trades Transpired. ( via Tom Tomorrow )

See also: The Sting, The Grifters.

Amazing and appalling behavior. The lesson? The bigger the lie, the more likely it will be believed.

Bebe Advertisements Site Updated and Moved.
One of the most searched for things on this site is for “Bebe Ads.” Some time ago I became, well, obsessed about the wonderful photography contained in bebe ads. I’ve added some new ones, notably of Yamila Diaz, Nina Brosh, and Isabeli Fontana. I’ve also given them a home under the “fansite” directory of this domain. I have the larger versions of the ads stored on my free space of Cox.net. I tend to be highly paranoid about bandwidth usage, even though it’s unlikely that I’ll go over the limits set by my host. I had been using my space at members.aol.com, but that got flaky. I’m not sure if it was my content, or what, but at times the site would only work if I used the hometown.aol.com – which adds a frame of advertising. I don’t care enough to investigate this, so I moved it off of AOL entirely.

That new url: http://artlung.com/fansite/bebe/

On a somber note.
Chuck Jones, masterful maestro of many merrie melodies—which is to say many Warner Bros. Cartoons—died today. He will be missed. May his work live on.

Terrorist -> Hippy
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial’s questionable changes. No sir, I don’t like it. Clean the thing up. Don’t butcher it! What the hell are you thinking Steve?

Ennui
Jenny’s third day away. The cat looks at me like a detective—“What have you done with her?” he seems to ask. He looks at the front door with circumspection. This will be a brief trip for Jenny, but her absence is definitely felt here in our humble household..

On the upside, I’m getting a lot done.

But then, that’s not everything, is it?

She’s Talking About Me!
Baby boomers—the cohort for whom Golden Age authors evoke fond recollections of childhood—currently dominate sf production and consumption. This supersized slice of the demographic pie has exerted hegemony over the pace and direction of cultural change for decades, but the Age of the Internet and the New Economy have, it seems to me, begun to dethrone them in favor of the 20- and 30-somethings who are as comfortable in the seething, mutating cultural ferment of the web as fish are in the sea. The Internet is perhaps the best symbol of everything disquieting to boomers (and their elders) about the present, including the generational divide with respect to technology. (via bruces )

Preach it Brotha!
Scott Andrew speaks up for those who work the client side.

Amen. I’m an odd case now, as I fit in both the server and client sides of the equation. But I like what he has to say about client-side experts. Lots of nuance on the client-side. It’s generally underestimated by those whose focus is elsewhere. Likewise, those who work the client-side sometimes underestimate the server-side of web work.

I think that kid is A-Okay.

My big ol’ head…
on avencom.com.

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