Jim was in the EFF office today, hanging out and working on some of our
cases.
In the morning, I went with Fred to a meeting of the
Liberty Alliance (which
is not a civil liberties group but rather an identification service).
The meeting was at Sun Microsystems, and various representatives of
privacy and consumer groups talked about concerns they had around
consumer privacy and on-line identification. The folks from
Consumers Union were pretty cool.
I rode my bike to work, and Ren helped me tune up the brakes a little.
It's easier to ride now, but the gear changing mechanism is still messed
up and needs some kind of adjustment I can't quite figure out.
I moved my stereo back into my own room. It's fun to be able to listen
to music through speakers; I'll try to do more of that now.
Here's
a
message I wrote today about the robot CA idea.
Kevin Barrett sent me a very nice birthday care package containing some
vegan chocolate bars of a brand called
Tropical
Source. They're amazingly good -- not the best chocolate I've
ever had, but very respectable, and you certainly wouldn't know they
were vegan.
He also included a Howard Zinn CD, an impressive multi-color pen which
even includes a PDA stylus and a mechanical pencil, and a copy of
A Quarter Century of Unix. (Too bad I didn't have that
last week -- I could have gotten it autographed at ALS.) Thanks, Kevin!
I read a poem called "Fuit Ilium" which I wrote early in 1998; that poem
was amazingly prescient, and I wrote a new poem tonight called "Of
Non-Existing Country" which continues its thought.
In 1998 (and every couple of months thereafter until the beginning of
2000) I wrote a bunch of poems which explained myself to myself pretty
well. Unfortunately, I then proceeded to forget all about them (partly
because most of them were on a hard drive that I couldn't read all that
time).
