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10-17-14
Last night, a friend mentioned a forgotten TV show that I'd religiously watched in the late 80s. Mathnet. It was a parody of Dragnet, with math humor and dad jokes. It's as nerdy as it sounds&emdash;and hilarious. Lying in bed, I watched an episode on YouTube, iPhone held in an arc over my head, giggling at the hairstyles and goofy jokes. Here's the a good one. Go on, watch it. If you found yourself here, you'd probably like it.
10-16-14
YouTube is the most important, the most revolutionary and the best site on the Internet. You'll never convince me otherwise. It took me a long time to realize this, but it's true.
10-13-14
Twenty years ago today, Netscape Navigator was released into the world. I dont think I saw it until 1995, when my geekiest friend took me to the computer lab and gleefully showed me the drab gray screen with too much aliased gray text. I was unmoved. Doesnt seem any better than LYNX, I thought..
10-11-14
Uncharacteristically lazy Saturday to shed all the busy-ness of the last few weeks. Slept til 9. Then, suddenly, a long walk into a Red Hook evening, the early sunset dropping a pink curtain behind the skyline.
10-10-14
Brooklyn Beta all day in the gorgeous building at the Navy Yard. More break than conference, but @textfiles brings it home well with a discussion of the Internet Archive and the beer is good.
10-09-14
It feels appropriate that for this, for this Right Now, I am writing code on my iPhone using an app to ssh into tilde.club. I am backwards compatible.
10-08-14
Today, flying across the Brooklyn Bridge and dodging tourists, I spotted a man, 7 feet tall, head and shoulders above the crowd. He moved more slowly than the rest, taking in the views, breeze rippling in his hair. I didn't, but I should have high-fived him as I zipped past, leaving a wake in his loose flannel shirt.
10-07-14
I made my first webpage, a ~page, in 1995, coding directly onto the UNIX server in emacs from my quiet desk job at the science library. I spent HOURS on it, but alas, it's lost to history. It's good to be back.
10-06-14
OH (possibly my husband): Why are you spending so much time on something no one will ever see?
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