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Hurray for Hollywood

I just set up a meeting with a manager in Hollywood. The fun part is that it's in "Hurray for Hollywood" Hollywood. Not Burbank or Santa Monica or Silverlake... but old fashioned Hollywood. With the freaks and the sign and a security guard named Sergio.

And if I asked Sergio for a headshot, I'm sure it would take less than 12 seconds for him to give one to me.

--Dylan
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2004.10.12
Quote of the Moment
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
I also liked his 1995 quote "I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?"

Links of the Moment
Wired.com had two neat biology stories lately: humans as superorganism, that we should properly consider the bacteria that live in us as part of "us", and growing a jacket from living cells...what's funny with that is people are more squicked by the idea than by, say, killing a cow to make a nice leather jacket...we're so weirdly sentimental about living tissue! It reminds me of this idea for "Chicken Little" in the book "The Space Merchants", that we can grow meat from a big slab of ever-growing tissue, cutting and packaging slices and sending 'em off...