Thursday, September 11, 2003
Is this spam, or is some girl telling people her email address is josie@bmezine.com? I don't think I know anyone with that name, or ever have… and it's definitely never been a valid email address for anyone at BME.
From: "Toney Revolt" <Itchyhand@prontomail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:44:03 -0700
To: josie@bmezine.com
word.
yeah so i can't call long distance so u gotz to call me. yeah???
847 312 9491
btw yr pic on the profile is hoooot.
and i'm down with piercing if you don't got no one else.
Trrouble T
-- Everytime i hear the word 'culture'
i release the safety catch on my 9mm--
Thursday, September 11, 2003
It kills me to link to a diaryland page ;-) but check out what typealice is up to in Africa! It's amazing how much Africa looks like the Caribbean… Africa is just such a mystery to people living in North America, I had no idea what to expect when she told me she was heading there.
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
These photos are now over seven, maybe eight years old. I can't believe so much time has gone by… Bizarre published it on the cover of their premiere issue about six years ago.
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
You can thank Jerome for this one; I'm posting it about 16 hours ahead of schedule, but I've got another one in the queue behind it so I have to rush things along — check out his website some time tomorrow afternoon or evening for even more if you like what you see below:
Other than that, I'm pounding through getting this new computer all set up. I figure it's about twenty hours of work. Probably not a bad thing as I'm feeling a bit sick right now. One of the things that I think is hard for people to understand (as in empathize with, not “get”) is just what it's like to live without a real memory; but try and imagine what it would be like if your entire world was defined by what had happened in the last 72 hours (if you're lucky; most days I only really know what I did in the morning because I've written “triggers” to my IAM page).
It's weird. I can tell stories about what happened long ago, but they're really just stories. I mean, I know the stories, but I could also tell you the story of what happened in Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan and have about as much emotional attachment to it as my own life. There are a few exceptions, moments that shatter through the veil, but some days it's wonderful, and some days it's really hard to be so living in the moment. I really enjoyed Memento, and it was funny to see, “hey, I do that”, but really it feels more like being a replicant desperately clutching his little stack of photos that aren't even of his own life.
You remember the spider that lived in a bush outside your window: orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer. Then one day there was a big egg in it. The egg hatched...
The egg hatched, and a hundred baby spiders came out.
And they ate her.
Implants! Those aren't your memories. They're somebody else's.
I think if I could change anything about the way I am, maybe I'd like to have my memory back.
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
I've posted a second update for today; this time an experience update. Not quite as giant though, but still more than enough to keep you busy (I'm guessing people are wrapped up in back to school issues). Thank you as always to the review team and the authors.
I've also added a new column — it's not really a column so much as a short letter, an open letter to employers letting them know why they should hire the modified. You can click here to see it if you'd like.
To whom it may concern,
There's been a lot of attention paid lately to people with piercings and tattoos. You may even be getting pressure not to hire (or even to fire) these people from a small percentage of your customers or even higher management, or to enact dress codes that ban these artforms. Both as an expert in these fields and as a successful business owner, I'd like to briefly tell you why this may not be a good decision purely from an objective business point of view.
Employees generate income for a business both by the work that they do, and by the interaction they have with your customers — and yes, this does of course include their appearance. In order to achieve this, it boils down to having employees that feel good about working for you, and make others feel good about doing business with you.
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Well, now I'm off to start working on tomorrow's update as well as Friday's. I wish I was kidding, but I'm not… There's a lot of good stuff in the queue though.
