Comments on: recuperating from everything but narcissism

By: Danny O'Brien

Danny O'Brien — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:06:26 +0000

Hello Phil! Wow, it’s good to hear from you after so long!

Wait, is this like writing on each other’s “walls”?

By: Rose White

Rose White — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:31:34 +0000

Hugh Laurie with beard? Excellent. David Tennant with beard? Excellent. “Beard are weird on camera”? REFUTED.

By: Yatima

Yatima — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:02:50 +0000

YMM “beards are AWESOME on camera”. HTH, HAND.

By: Phil Wilkins

Phil Wilkins — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:35:02 +0000

“It was taken with one of the first consumer digital cameras, in Britain’s first Cybercafe”

A digital camera which had just had the lens licked by a couple of local kids no less. I believe those were my photoshop skills on display (not that I should really be seeking attribution on something I would these days laugh off as ‘programmer art’). A formative period for us both, that appears to have manifested in us sharing the same glasses.

That was my first encounter with the web (having previously sacrificed my education to an NNTP addiction that I was going cold-turkey on). I recall spending most of my time trying to get back out of the Principia Discordia, and thinking that it was promising stuff, but that there must be a better way of finding things on it.

By: Lee Maguire

Lee Maguire — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:58:31 +0000

I’ve currently running what remains of my few random VHS cassettes through a Neuros OSD and am re-experiencing random bits of 90s telly again. Yesterday I watched you talking about old arcade games on “The Net”, and an interview with a couple of Stanford students about how easy it is getting VC cash for their search engine site – they were given a check for $100,000 before they’d even set up a company. (“Pfft”, I remember thinking at the time, “why would anyone switch from altavista?”)