Vitanuova for 2002 June 25

Monday

Nick took me out to eat at the famous New World Veggie House in Oakland (although the restaurant itself doesn't call itself that).

Amusing

Lee: The first [fourth amendment] sensory-enhancement case [leading up to Kyllo v. U.S.] was actually a flashlight case, where the police used a flashlight, and it was challenged as a search because ordinarily you wouldn't be able to see in the dark...

Seth: Oh, because the flashlight enhanced their senses by allowing them to see, because in the old days people used to rely on the darkness for privacy.

Lee: Some of them still do that today.

Also:

libc confronted about dependency on kernel source tree; insists "I only read it for the headers, the headers!"

Also:

a very small printer named Aldus Minutius

Also: Look at the bottom of http://www.notfrisco.com/ -- doesn't it look like we're being invited to pay fines to Emperor Norton via PayPal?

Tuesday

I went to Stanford. I didn't notice it when I was a prospective student, but the Stanford campus is beautiful, and the Stanford Bookstore is fantastic.

Thanks to Quinn for transportation and conversation.

I met Profs. Ed Felten and Ross Anderson there. (Amusingly, neither is actually a Stanford professor; both just happened to be visiting. Felten is visiting for a year, and Anderson for a week.) I also caught sight of Larry Lessig, but didn't speak with him.

I want to read Anderson's and Felten's books; Felten hasn't finished his yet, so there will be a wait for it to be published. Anderson also strongly recommended a book called Information Rules, by Varian and Shapiro.

Bennett

Supposedly Bennett Haselton is about 60% hero, per public opinion.