Cyrus Farivar

Today is the 141st anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. So to celebrate, I’m putting up a bootleg recording that I made of an 11’30” reading by Sarah Vowell of her experience at Gettysburg. Please forgive the loud laughter by myself and my friends. And on a totally unrelated note, (courtesy Rachel Balsham), is this Bush in drag? (from this article.) You be the judge.

Acquired an official UN shot glass last weekend. Acquired three new Eddie Izzard DVDs at the signing. MOMA is re-opening this Saturday. Free admission, 10 am – 9 pm. I might go. Also want to check out the Timothy Greenfield-Sanders [NSFW] exhibit and the Alexander Hamilton exhibit. Had coffee/lunch this week with Scott Rafer of Feedster fame and Dave Feldman of Imponderables fame. Might be going to visit Dallas in Cincy for a few days in mid-Dec. Working on two…

BB says Howto: make a free TiVo-oid BitTorrent service And courtesy Rachel Balsham (she told me about it), here’s a cool app for getting music off of people’s shared iTunes. (Mac OS X only)

For that to happen, however, Mr. Jobs must do what he failed to do last time: prevail over his old nemesis, Bill Gates, who sees entertainment as Microsoft’s next great frontier. Microsoft is working hard to make sure that the iPod is less like the Walkman and more like the Betamax, Sony’s videocassette format that was defeated in the marketplace by VHS. A few days after Apple’s U2 extravaganza, Mr. Gates, Microsoft’s chairman, paced around his office overlooking the rolling…

I’ll be in California from Dec. 20 to Jan. 9 — probably most of that time in Berkeley. Hope some of you folks will still be around then. Returning to OAK on May 20, two days after I graduate.

Things I like: Planning trips Planning a book proposal Freelancing Cooking for friends Radio class & Regional Conflicts class Thinking about life after graduation Things I don’t like: Not being excited by NYC Feeling bored/powerless Being impatient about many things Dealing with said emotions Other classes Writing about stuff I don’t care about

Hey kids, fire up your mp3 players — here’s my first radio piece (2 min 9 sec) on Koronet Pizza — we had to do a profile of a place for my Intro to Radio class. It was a lot fun to do. 🙂 Comments welcome!

Despite the fact that Toland Grinnell told me that Terminal 5 was reopening, I went out to JFK today and discovered that it was closed. 4 hours wasted. Sucks. While out in Ozone Park, I bought a roti at a Trinidadian place and a Solo soda. (I love the image imprinted on the bottle — the side text reads: “High in Quality”) And in what could be some very good news Prof. Freedman is interested in my book idea, which…

In the Nov. 2004 issue of Oakland City magazine (pages 18, 22). Check it out here.