September 17, 1998

"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." -- Immanuel Kant

Just finished reading: The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Now in the middle of: Media Circus: The Trouble With America's Newspapers. Added to the to-read stack: Gossip by Christopher Bram; The Men From the Boys by William J. Mann; and The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias (nee John Reid).

I can't say I'm terribly impressed with The New Hollywood Squares. Whoopi Goldberg is funny, but she's just going through the motions here. She's certainly no Paul Lynde, but then, who is? And, "Rosie O'Donnell to block" is no replacement for Rose Marie. (In St. Louis, you can see the travesty at 11:35 p.m. on Channel 4.) Maybe I should subscribe to the Game Show Channel, where George Gobel lives!

Macintosh columnist and inveterate smart-ass Andy Ihnatko has landed over at MacCentral with a weekly gig. His hilarious supersite Colossal Waste of Bandwidth is still homeless, but promised to return soon.

A problem for the Information Age: What happens to your files after you die? A surviving daughter contemplates what to do with her dearly departed dad's disks.

Burning Man 1998 is now a memory, and Halcyon, one of the Internet's most compelling egos has his own photo album and reflections from what passes for the counterculture this decade.

Another empty promise? The Daily Instigator sez it's finally going live on Monday. Will it be worth the wait?

<SITENEWS> The Ice Rhapsody page has been updated, with new photos and news of the team's exciting win at ISI. </SITENEWS>

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