Scanman reports from Black Rock Desert:

The weather is cooling down somewhat, and the wind
report for the burn tomorrow is promising. Rumor has
it from the rangers that the pyrotechnic guys have
installed a platform of magnesium under the Man,
which should generate quite the fireball!

We relaxed the early part of the evening and watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail and an episode of Firefly on DVD. We're such bums.

Met a 16-year old hacker today. He creates websites for people and installed an ftp server on his Windoze laptop pretty damned fast for transferring photos over the local wireless network.

Scanman is on the left. He and his father were the first Republican acid heads I ever met. At the time, the existence of such people blew my mind—but I was narrow in my youth. I'm making up for that now. Of course, Scanman eventually left the party, but nobody's perfect. He's still an arch-capitalist.

I'll bet it's quite the phenomenon. Me, I'd go just to see people play with fire on that kind of scale. You can take that any way you want.

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. . . has an interesting, meditative little essay on the development of the ARPA net, which of course turned into the internet. Worth a look.

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