november, 21, 2003 archives

this article about tom gilmore and the old bank district provides more background on where i live. related: rss feed for la downtown news.

slow down to go faster

the shockwave rider by john brunner is yet another amazingly forward-thinking science fiction book from 1975 that almost reads like current events. by the end of the book, i found myself thinking that this was the sort of libertarian science fiction that i had expected when picking up the books by l. neil smith.

southern california linux expo 2003 (aka scale2x) is tomorrow. i’ll be there for at least part of the show. there’s also a showing of revolution os, a documentary about open source, in the evening. but it’s also playing on the sundance channel, so i may skip out on that.