Writer's Block: Freaky Friday

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If I could become a woman for a day? Well, having sex is the obvious thing, since I've always wondered what it was like. But that's just the evening. I'd spend most of the day singing and recording, so that I'd have the rare opportunity to sing duets with myself. If I could pick the day and had enough advance notice, I'd do a concert at a convention. (And everyone in the audience would be wondering "who the hell is that, and why is she singing so many of Steve's songs?")

Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart is dead

Michael S. Hart invented the eBook in 1971, and founded Project Gutenberg. He died on Tuesday, of a heart attack. He was only five days older than me.

Official obit: Michael S. Hart - Gutenberg

Obits at Boing Boing and Ars Technica.

Done yesterday (20110908 Th)

( raw notes )

An office with walls does little to prevent sound leakage from the adjacent offices when the building has a dropped ceiling. Other than that, though, it's very nice. I'll cope.

I got quite a lot of work done, but no walkies.

Quite a few links. I was saddened and shocked to learn of the death of Project Gutenberg's founder, Michael Hart -- shocked, because he was less than a week older than me. I'm feeling old now. And mortal.

I spent quite a while in the evening listening to songs by Trinh Cong Son on YouTube; Joan Baez called him "the Vietnamese Bob Dylan". He was recommended to me by our Vietnamese lab tech, Gloria, when I said goodbye to her last Friday. Go give Impermanent Flower a listen. It's worth it.