Comments on: Off to a Great Start

By: MDarling

MDarling — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:15:36 +0000

As for films- I used to live on the other side of that view- sort of (I suspect that the picture Phil posted was stock photo image of the POFA- SF evenings are hardly ever that clear and the light is too perfect for normal conditions. Also there is no sign of the scaffolds that were up just a few weeks ago when I was at that spot)
and I can tell you that dozens of films have used that location. The Rock, the Bachelor, and Twisted come to mind.

And- related to the Star Wars theme at the venue across the street- the new ILM hq is just across the st, not really visible from the spot where the photo was taken- but perhaps from Thiel’s rooftop. (it would have been northwest -just a bit left of the Palace dome.)

By: MDarling

MDarling — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:09:31 +0000

Though I support attendance and recognize the inexplicable nature of some experiences-
this does a good job of explaining Burning Man.
http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/faq_what_is.html

(pardon for not knowing how to embed the link)

By: Stephen Gordon

Stephen Gordon — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:31:26 +0000

The view – hey… they filmed part of “So I married an Ax Murderer” there.

By: Phil Bowermaster

Phil Bowermaster — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:07:00 +0000

Upon further discussion, MAtthew pointed out that his desire for an army of robotic supermen — in a post-Singularity world — is about the equivalent of keeping a gun in his home for protection in this day and age. Not the least bit megalomaniacal.

I stand corrected.

By: Phil Bowermaster

Phil Bowermaster — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:36:54 +0000

Matthew –

It was definitely the movie that people were talking about at the opening reception. But by the time you and I did our interview, folks had found plenty of other stuff to talk about.

From your comments, I took you to be much more the dangerous megalomaniac than racist, but we’ll let the viewers judge for themselves. Most the readers of this blog grasp the notion that religion and race are two different things.

I can’t help you on the Mac stuff, I’m afraid, but maybe one of our Mac-based readers can make a suggestion.

By: Be Afraid (Matthew Bailey)

Be Afraid (Matthew Bailey) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:01:37 +0000

Dang… Not used to the new MacBook yet (Great start though)!…

Great Event today, nice meeting you, and your blog looks pretty cool…

What the heck is the “Star Wars” stuff? Do you mean the movie or the Missile Defense Shield (Formerly known by Reagan as “Star Wars”)?

I hope you don’t think I am a racist for my comments about Islam, BTW… I only mean the scary ones, like scary Christians… The more sensible ones (like my Brother in Law) are really cool… It is just the other ones tend to scare me more than most… I just need to find out how much I should worry about the “scary” ones, and how prevalent they are…

As to my Army of Robot Supermen, when I am finished putting that army together, I shall invite you to be the first to inteview the head of that army – It will probably literally be a head too … See you tomorrow…

OH! I put a temporary link to the speculist in a post, I will work on implanting one in the HTML on my profile sometime next week… I need to re-read the instructions for editing HTML for my mac… It seems to be just a touch different than my former Toshiba/PC/Windows IE browser changes… I tried it once, but for some reason it didn’t save the changes???