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HVAC broken again. It’s got to be about 80 F at 10 am. Gah.

Plus the elevators are out. Shac and I got back form the gym totally exhausted and stood in the elevators… since they didn’t want to go to our floor, we thought they might be in “night mode” where you take one elevator to and from the parking garage, and then switch elevators to go from the lobby to the rest of the building.

Nope. The board for the card reader had been yanked for maintenance and so all the elevators, which have card readers, were inoperable. D’oh!

Dan, our office manager, wrote this to us-

We ask for your patience while we all work through this. But here are a few helpful hints if you just can’t get comfortable:

If you are too hot:

1. Bring in a fan
2. Bring in a bucket and a bag of ice, and stick your feet in it while you work

If you are too cold:

1. Bring in a fire safe space heater (they automatically shut off if they tip over)
2. Take a 2 min break and run around the outside of the building several times

The Author is “Heru Ptah” and his book is “A Hip-Hop Story.”

MTV Books is publishing it.

Ptah was selling the book on the train and a publishing exec picked up his copy for $10.

Web link of note: Heru Ptah sells novel on A Train
(At http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/books/06HERU.html)

A online comic about usability engineers. Really!
Web link of note: OK / Cancel
(At http://www.ok-cancel.com/)

Richard Branson, the founder and emperor of Virgin

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One reviewer called it “cracktastic.”
Possibly the greatest and simplest game ever made for the Sony Playstation!
Web link of note: Vib-Ribbon
(At http://www.vibribbon.com)

“we wash your clothes”

Sort of reminds me of the Kim Il Jong sex video

Web link of note: video: Walt Whitman
(At http://www.myrobotfriend.com/waltwhitman.html)

“The User”
Web link of note: Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers
(At http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html)

Article in SF Weekly about kids from Academy of Art doing another 48 Hour Film thing
Web link of note: Quick Flick: 48 Hours with Academy of Art crew
(At http://sfweekly.com/issues/2003-11-05/feature.html/1/index.html)

This site is hysterical- it’s an ad for a book, “Vanquish Fear & Anxiety,” and seems to be written to bring in crawlers… So they have the identical page for every phobia in their database.

This means there is a long plea to treat your Clown Phobia somewhere on the site.

Here’s an example of a particularly ludicrous one.

To add insult to an already distressing condition, most atomic explosion phobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear. We believe that not only is this totally unnecessary, it will often make the condition worse. And it is particularly cruel as atomic explosion phobia can be eliminated with the right methods and just 24 hours of commitment by the phobic individual.

BRIAN: now that’s an expensive therapy!
DGIES: the easiest cure for atomic explosion phobia is being exposed to an atomic explosion

mizuhiki is a decorative paper cord, and the name of the practice of making decorative flourishes (e.g. on gifts) with that cord.

• Yasutomo’s Projects & Ideas page
• Mizuhiki book and kit at Draggin’ Ink
• Intro to mizuhiki from the “Digital Archives of Ishikawa, Japan“