You have: a Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas sweatshirt and black denim jeans. You
do not have: a hat.
Feel like a game of Adventure, pardner?
Actually, no: I came here to write, and it's a good choice. Reasonably
loud, lightly packed, 2AM closing time, sparky waitresses, and no other
temptation in sight... unlike, say, the Drama Club, the
pool-hall/dance-hall right behind our hotel (the El Dorado, 505 988 4455,
pretentious but not recommended) -- that will definitely be the launching
pad for tomorrow night's carousal with Joe Kiniry.
{I was going to fulminate about the insanity of my travails getting IP tone
today: the deactivated WorldNet account, $1 surcharges for 800 calls in the
hotel, $1 surcharges for prepaid card calls, the lack of dataports, the
race conditions with the 38-digit dialing plan and the modem autodetect,
the crosstalk-plagued lines, the congested ABQ pop number... but the
brooding vocals and the ale are doing their job well... which is why I
won't even begin to get into the quagmire of my travel arrangements for two
SF trips next week}
But what to write? To say nothing of all the backlogged obloquy on the
decks (patent review, three incomplete classes, workshop reports,
internet-drafts, blah di blah), I have yet to finish a column for IEEE
Internet Computing on Telnet (there are almost a *hundred* RFCs on the
topic! That's just over 3% of all RFCs ever published...) and two position
papers for the 'future-of-HTML' conference.
(of course, Dave published the agenda already -- the cynic in me should
only write the latter if I'm speaking :-)
Fashion tip: heatsinks as knuckle rings. I just went over to the next table
to ask for a closer look at this vamp chick's ring, which looked for all
the world like a triple-finned inch-long circular base heatsink, inset with
a polished black stone.
I have got to get a geeky firebreathing device. And soon. Sooner, perhaps,
than a digital camera.
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Moral: if you're gonna do anything funny in a cowbar (or the Crow Bar, a
biker bar on K in DC), make sure it's so funny no one looks at ya funny.
Wear a Don Johnson outfit, get beat up; whip out a laptop and pretend to
work, and much like the Japanese, it will be seen as such a blatant breach
of etiquette it will be denied entirely. Remember, wrapping a towel around
your head works because if you can't see them, they can't see you. Right?
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"Care to take the Cowgirl home? Heck! You can have a delivery!
Just call the Gourmet Express, 992-3200"
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Did this song move anyone else? Or is country music not an approved FoRK
Bad Habit (TM)?
Strawberry wine
Seventeen
The hot July moon;
I saw everything.
The first taste of love -
Oh, bittersweet
- Mindy McCready
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319 S Guadalupe
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(505) 982 2565
519 Hudson St.
New York, NY 10014
(212) 633-1133
(guess which one's older. Hint: you're wrong :-)s