Ugh. I'm watching Peter Jennings' newscast, just to see the bit about the high-tech aspects of the Republican convention -- evidently Christian Coalition members are using Motorola Envoys to communicate. Darin's company, of course, did the software for them. Darin's mom let me know that the Envoys were featured, having seen the show 2 hours ago, and I let a couple of people at General Magic know about it. I said:
You, yes you, have made this possible.
One of them replied:
Wait until everything turns into devil stamps just as Bobdole is nominated and watch the ensuing hilarity.
As this isn't official Magic policy, I'm not telling you who said it.
Over on alt.showbiz.gossip, the old gossip about Jack Kemp being a leather queen has resurfaced, as I'm sure it will in news reports. I always hope things like this are true, not because I have anything against leather queens (some of whom are good friends of mine), but because it would show a top-ranking Republican to be a complete hypocrite. And all the party faithful who are nuts over Kemp being on the ticket would drop Kemp like a hot potato -- he's great today, anathema tomorrow.
The difference between my views and conservative views, as far as I can tell is, I think they should be able to live their lives pretty much any way they want to, and they think they should be able to dictate to everyone how to live their lives.
You know, I've often doubted my own gender, because I do not enjoy shopping, except for books, which is not really like shopping, it's more like a religious experience. Shopping for anything else -- clothes, appliances, makeup -- is such a chore I've successfully avoided it up until this point in my life. Until I was about 23 or 24 my mother bought all my clothes. S'truth.
I started doing shopping for the apartment today. Such as one can do from 400 miles away. What I did was start visiting places like Sears and Circuit City to see how expensive things like beds and refrigerators are.
Yuck. They're expensive.
One thing I discovered is that Circuit City really does have cheap prices for TVs and VCRs -- cheaper than Price Club
Another thing I found is that the Vallco mall here in Cupertino is dying. There was no one there. A sizeable number of shops were empty, and few people were walking up and down the nicely air-conditioned halls.
The funniest thing was at a display of collectible Barbie dolls. A mother and 10-year-old daughter were looking at the special Barbies. The mother pointed to one doll and said, "That one's forty dollars too. But remember, these grow in value over time." Gotta teach them the value of collectibles early, I guess.