About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Archive for February, 2004
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Why I Love Berkeley
Posted on February 20, 2004 | No CommentsYesterday was pretty busy. I ditched Farsi in the morning in favor of sleeping, headed over to my grandparents’ house for Thursday interviews (which didn’t happen — we had lunch and I played the doting grandson extraordinaire (ie, Mac consultant for free)), headed to Econ... -
“Why do they hate us?” (Part IV)
Posted on February 20, 2004 | No CommentsWow. I sit before my laptop, ready to write about this really interesting Salon article about life inside the Green Zone in Baghdad, and my iTunes playlist pulls up Percy Grainger’s Colonial Song at random. Heh. Even funnier is that this song, written by an... -
“Because straight or gay, we believe and we know many people who believe, support and celebrate the right to marriage.”
Posted on February 19, 2004 | No CommentsAn LJer from Minnesota had a neat idea: Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random couple waiting in line at SF city hall. He called a florist and they agreed to do it. He told them to deliver... -
Sweet!
Posted on February 18, 2004 | No CommentsWow! The OCF is back up! -
“The Selling Out of the First Amendment”
Posted on February 18, 2004 | No CommentsSo I forgot — I have an extra free ticket (UCB students [or people who can pass as students, like Maria]) for the event tomorrow night in Zellerbach, with John Carroll (one of the editors at the LA Times) and Michael Krasny, the host of... -
“The application for the $250 award requires an essay on ‘why you are proud of your white heritage’
Posted on February 18, 2004 | No CommentsLots of things from the blogosphere today that are noteworthy (in the order I read them): Boing Boing posted about a study about free Wi-Fi, confirming what I had suspected, which is that free Wi-Fi leads to more business, and pay Wi-Fi leads to less... -
Two Links to Chew On
Posted on February 17, 2004 | No CommentsDarpa Offers No Food for Thought: Soldiers’ moms will no doubt be horrified. But the Pentagon is looking into ways for GIs to fight for up to five days — without eating a single meal. During a mission, soldiers in the field typically don’t have... -
“Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter, away you rolling river.”
Posted on February 16, 2004 | 1 CommentI’ve been listening to Mozart’s 9th Piano Concerto, and I skipped over the second movement (Andante) because I think that it’s boring, so I have a question to pose to all you music-fans of all stripes: Why is it so difficult to write slow music... -
Rainy Monday Morning
Posted on February 16, 2004 | No CommentsWow, two pentaquerys at once, from mifune and from odd_dog, respectively: [If you want your own pentaquery, let me know in comments.] -
“We will not run.”
Posted on February 15, 2004 | No CommentsI’m about to head out for LAX, after having about an hour-long discussion with my parents about my future and present. Basically, what I gather is that they don’t know what I do, and will never be satisfied and so I’ll just continue doing what...
