Cyrus Farivar

I can’t think of a better breakfast than a guajolota, a tamal, drenched in salsa verde, encased in a fluffy torta roll for convenience and mobility. The price? About eighty cents. (Eight pesos.) As I sit in this cybercafe, it’s happily settling in my stomach. My flight, although it was delayed and the passport line at the Mexico City airport was quite long, went off without a hitch. Ruben, our host, and Martin met me at the airport. We hopped…

I’m in Mexico City until Friday. See you then!

Wow, now I’ll never get anything done ever again. Still, who wants to play?

I’m in Santa Monica all weekend. Will be in Oaktown by midday on Monday. Also, Highway 46 is one of the scariest stretches of road I’ve ever driven at night. It’s a two lane highway that’s really dark at night, and super far from everything.

Todd Lappin managed to find some really neat snapshots of the Bay Bridge under construction from a local electrician who moonlights as a photog. I’m a union electrician (Local 6 San Francisco). I’m the guy on the job who will climb anything, anywhere, so I usually get really good jobs. A lot of guys are afraid to climb tower cranes and hang off walls, but I have no fears as of yet (except roaches). I started taking pictures at work…

Becky and I just got back from a week-long trip to New York. Here are a few highlights:

Wow, the world has just lost one of its premiere filmmakers, Senegal’s Ousmane Sembène. (Previously: here, and here) I had the pleasure of meeting him once in New York a couple of years ago, and am proud to say that I shook his hand, but the world has been diminished by the loss of this great man. Various obits: BBC, AP, Walf Fadjri (French), Le Soleil (French)

Until Tuesday. I’m holding court for drinks on Friday night, which is the best time to see me. Email me if you want to join us.

Wired News: by Cyrus Farivar 05.29.07 | 2:00 AM Researchers claim to have developed the first mathematical model for creating invisibility simulations on a computer, but possible real-world applications — say, a gadget that works like Harry Potter’s cloak — so far seem far-fetched. In the May 1 issue of Optics Letters, a team of scientists published a paper outlining a “numeric simulation” for cloaking. The software program recreates a breakthrough 2006 experiment, run by David Smith and David Shurig…