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Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
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5:25p - back to the future part 2
Welcome to part 2 of my 15-year-old archives. For this one I think I'll allow public access, partly because this one is a little more fun to read. Still this is all horrible to look back on, I realize how some of my issues are so much the same. Ah well, there's also something cleansing about it, like a good colonic. Again, this is utterly unchanged (except for last names) -- there's just something more real, if painful, about that.
August 4, 1989
Well, I’m sitting here watching Daniel I---- play Tetris on my Macintosh. Two Christmases ago Mom gave it to me. I didn’t use it much until I got to school – my freshman year at UCSC – when my roommate Max, who also had a Mac, made me more Mac-literate. He stuffed my computer with data, systems, and games. I got in touch with an entire Macintosh network down there, with pirates everywhere. One of my favorite pastimes was playing Golf and other games with Matt M------ over at Porter college (I was at Stevenson). Well, we’re off to do something or other…I’ll be back.
August 6, 1989
Historical perspective department: yesterday was August 5, 1989, the day the movie “Do the Right Thing” was set, and I saw it (again) yesterday. Today is the 44th anniversary of the day a U.S. plane named the Enola Gay dropped a nuclear explosive on a small Japanese city named Hiroshima. Today the Rialto theatre (in Berkeley) closes for good (big deal, ’twas a rathole anyhoo) and today the comic strip Bloom County ends. I used to be one of the world’s biggest Bloom County fans but it’s gotten so awful over the last couple of years that I can’t say I’m sorry to see it go. I hope something good replaces it.
( dog days of a teenage Berkeley summer )
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