every year i say i am going to read
ulysses on bloomsday & every year it slips past me. this year i even asked off from work, but i spent the day sitting in bed reading catalogs & watching television with bean. we hadn't seen television at all since before we moved, so it's not as delinquent as it sounds, more decadent really.
now we are going to eat some tacos & watch spellbound & then drive across town to watch a mighty wind because there is little to beat the decadence & indulgence of a double-feature. little, i tell you.
:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:here is, in full, an e-mail from my brother:
Hey sister hey,
I'm glad to hear that your trip was good.
I hope that you enjoyed The Diamond Age.
I'm glad that you're interested in wireless (I think that the concept of sending intelligence through the air is the best ever), but I'm going to have to disagree with your shoutout to Marconi.
Nikola Tesla demonstrated wireless before Marconi. In fact, there was a Supreme Court hearing in 1947 (just after Tesla's death) that upheld Tesla's patents on wireless. Unfortunately, most people still say that Marconi invented wireless...
Maybe it's because people don't like Tesla because he was so crazy. He couldn't eat his food until he had calculated it's cubic volume. (Wait, isn't "cubic volume" redundant? doesn't volume imply cubic capacity? I think it does.)
Anyway, here's a link about the whole Marconi vs. Tesla thing: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html
tomorrow i will remember what laurie anderson has to say about tesla.
