Herro Flom Japan

It got repurposed as a soccer-themed lounge. XBOX is a sponsor, so there are still some kiosks there.

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I'm like, seriously smiling right now because Adam Curry replied to a message I posted in his blog about There.com. I included a link to the video I made and he replied, "Wow, very cool! Does it work on Mac as well?"

So I just spent 15 minutes writing my two-sentence reply, because I wanted it to be perfectly worded.

WTF is wrong with me? He's just an average human being. I wonder, did people who listened to my podcast feel the same way when I replied to them? I hope not. I have to admit, that's one of the reasons I stopped. I have no wish to be famous–even a little bit. Having more friends is great, having a positive influence on others is great, but being famous means nothing. But if that's true, then why does getting a reply from AC make me feel giddy?

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Lately I've been spending every other night sleeping in the office, trying to learn enough Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, etc. to put together a new website. Yesterday I spent hours trying to figure out why Ruby on Rails mangles Japanese text only when it comes out of the database encoded properly as UTF-8 but not when it's stored in utf8. Hours.

Then this morning I'm just standing there in the shower and the solution comes to me out of the blue. Or maybe it came out of the shower head, I don't know.

This happens ALL the time. What is it about showers? Why do they hold so many answers? Would it be possible to create a virtual shower? Some kind of contraption you stick your head into at work when you need to solve to a particularly hairy problem.

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Someone claiming to be an anonymous White House insider has posted a treasure trove of dirt on the people highest up in the Bush Administration. The details are so bizarre that I can't fathom anyone having the imagination to make them up. The guy has a killer sense of humor. This is the most enjoyable read I've had in a long, long time.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/12/24219/8100

I guess I'm obliged to post a sampling. It's all so good that it's hard to choose. A lot of it is laugh-out-loud funny.

Everyone loves how Condi smells and we do anything we can to sniff her while she isn't looking. If I knew what perfume she wears, I would simply soak a sock in it and writhe in orgasmic ecstasy without having to stalk her everywhere she goes. After she shook hands with Putin, he sniffed his hand again and again. Her aroma is heavenly and legendary throughout the world.

I don't know if she's on to the fact that everyone is sniffing at her, but tons of us are doing it, and it's very difficult not to bust up when I catch someone else doing it. Everyone loves her enchanting aroma.

I've seen her greet foreign dignitaries from a distance, and invariably their hand goes to their nose, it is f***ing uncanny. The rumor is that this is either some KGB perfume or something the CIA cooked up to make her irresistible. Maids comment on it. Cooks comment on it the kitchen staff and sniffs her used napkins. Everyone is in on this thing except for her. We all know everyone else is doing it. It is the most massive government conspiracy I have yet known, and I suspect it goes all the way to the top.

But there's one thing he says that rings all too true. This should be some news magazine's quote of the year for 2006.

Democracy as a government relies upon the ability of factions to compromise on divisive issues through rational debate instead of violence. The current political power brokers have figured out how to short circuit this process by focusing national attention on issues which are based on differences of non-negotiable, irrational moral sentiment, and are thus not subject to resolution through rational reconciliation. They've broken democracy.

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An MIT student accused of copyright infringement has been documenting her struggles with the RIAA. Upon trying to negotiate her settlement, a representative told her "the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements." Is this justice or insanity?

I'm blogging this from Digg.com, and it reminds me of something I've been thinking about lately.

Now, we all know podcasters who point to stories like this one as proof that the RIAA is evil, and I agree with them.

Here's where I disagree with those same podcasters: when they're unapologetic pot smokers. If you criticize or advocate a boycott of the RIAA because of their evil practices, then you can't in the same breath extol the virtues of marijuana. The industry that supplies the demand for recreational drugs is FAR, FAR more evil than the RIAA could ever be. Unless your stash is homegrown, then lighting up during a podcast is soundvertising for what has to be the most evil industry in existence.

Yeah, we all know who I'm talking about. And please, I'm not mentioning this to invite ya'll to a Podfather piñata party. Aside from this issue I think he's a decent guy. I just think it's ironic that people can work themselves into a tizzy over him using the Lord's name in vain, yet overlook the fact that he's shilling for the drug cartels more often than he does for Phillips.

And to make this post Japan-related: Marajuana's just as illegal here as herion. If you're caught, you're in deep trouble.

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