How's That Soup? 12 October 1998

The official also added, almost as an afterthought: "We shouldn't have lied about it. We should have just admitted that we made a mistake so that we could move on ... Now back to the chaos."
SALON | Oct. 13, 1998

Yeah. What he said.

Rich People Upset, Insecure
Nation Tugs Forelock, Begs 'Umble Pardon
NY Times, October 13 1998

Stores that sell expensive items, from silk ties to personal computers, are already seeing a decline. Sales at Neiman Marcus, which also owns Bergdorf Goodman, fell more than 7 percent last month.

Some of the art auction houses are expecting strong sales of masterpieces, which is how they make most of their money. But they are worrying about what, for their customers, are almost impulse purchases. "The real question is not how the great Renoir will do, but how a good Renoir, at a half million, will do," said Diana Brooks, the chief executive of Sotheby's.

There are days when I barely need to say anything at all.

11:30 PM: I have a script running over on the other machine, that's dumping out a lot of debug comments as it walks through a list of file paths, so that the output looks like

checking out /
checking out /bla/
checking out /bla/morebla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/yourmomsbla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/yourmomsbla/blaspice/
done with /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/yourmomsbla/blaspice/
checking out /
checking out /bla/
checking out /bla/morebla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/yourmomsbla/
checking out /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/yourmomsbla/blaspice/
done with /bla/morebla/foribla/humbla/yourmomsbla/blaspice/

And I was noticing that when that shape is rolling up through the window at a good fast clip, if you turn your head sideways and look at it, it's kind of like driving past skyscrapers or housing projects or something like that, especially if the music is loud, mechanical, and in motion like this Death in Vegas CD. I don't know how you can try this at home but maybe you can figure something out.

You can't stay here, the Master will not approve.

Willfully blind self-indulgent nebbish or amusingly quirky old coot? And how bout that local sports team? Discuss among yourselves.

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