Cyrus Farivar

Josh Norman on “Eye of the Storm” : I have now been told several times that this must have been “cool” or “fun.” It is not. The anticipation was fun. The reality was terrifying. The aftermath is nothing short of a nightmare. Let’s start with my personal problems, which are nothing relative to the greater problem. 1) There is nowhere to poop. I went in a plastic bag the other day and haven’t gone since. 2) My apartment stinks because…

Wired News: By Cyrus Farivar 12:58 PM Sep. 01, 2005 PT With most of New Orleans underwater, certain online resources have emerged as crucial access points for news, housing information and live community updates. Wired News has compiled a list of some of the best. Sites of note: Michael Barnett’s LiveJournal: Barnett, (previously covered on Wired News), the de facto crisis manager of DirectNIC, a New Orleans-based hosting company, is blogging from inside the city. Updated very frequently. Lousiana State…

NYT: Several residents said they had heard of children being raped [in the Superdome], though it was not clear whether anyone reported such incidents to the authorities, and no officials could be found who could confirm the accounts. Darcel Monroe, 21, a bakery cashier, stammered hysterically as she recounted seeing two young girls being raped in one of the women’s bathrooms. “A lot of people saw it but they were afraid to do anything,” she said. “He ran out past…

Seeing this NY Post article on the Chinatown buses linked on Wonkette recently made me remember that I should put back up my Master’s thesis. Here it is, now licensed under Creative Commons. A few times every weekend, a large dark blue airport shuttle-sized van pulls up in front of the Charter Oak Supermarket in Hartford, Conn. This “station” is situated a few minutes from the main station in downtown Hartford that houses both Amtrak trains and Greyhound bus lines.…

At the request of Adam Kuban over at Slice, I just donated $25 to the Katrina relief fund at Second Harvest. If you can spare some cash, now’s the time.

Macworld Publisher Rick LePage gave me his Treo 650 for free yesterday. Today, thanks to tips from Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell, I can play any video on my Treo. That means The Daily Show. Also, when I finally install my new radio in my car, that means I can have The Daily Show audio playing through the car stereo. Holy crap.

My response to this earlier post on Berkeley pizzerias is up on Slice.

This is my Columbia J-school buddy Michael Keller who mooned Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi early this morning. He’s one of the authors of Eye of the Storm. (Reuters Photo 2.) Stay safe (and dry), fellas.

Eugene Tsui, Architect: The last attempt at a bridge designed to span the Strait of Gibraltar was a design by U.S. engineer T.Y.Lin in 1986 which would require three support pylons one mile high and footings that plunge to the sea bottom one half mile down underwater and then sink an additional quarter of a mile destroying the existing ecology of the sea bottom surrounding it significantly disturbing the marine environment of the area. Lin’s design was based on previous…

Some buddies of mine from Columbia are blogging their experiences down in New Orleans Biloxi, Mississippi: Eye of the Storm