Kao, aka Faces by Junji Sakamoto
Sakamoto-san won a Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for this film.
Faces is a dark comedy,
a Japan “road movie”. A honest portrait of different Japanese lives. A fable
of “you are responsible for your own actions”. A dark “coming of age” movie.

Best quote from the movie, slightly paraphrase: Do not die. […]

startup.com
Watching this movie in Cambridge is its own entertainment. Lots of net people in the theatre.
Someone is always explaining something to their companions. Who are
Kleiner Perkins. Whats with the
Nerf Gun.
If you have lived through any of the Internet start up experience you should go see this movie.
You will find out that you are not alone.

Having […]

Fan with remote control
How can I live without it for so long? Just bought a fan for the office. (Computer room AC broke again). This one has a remote! Like whole house sound system, another thing that one cannot live without…. 80’s yuppy materialism.

I have an install date for ISDN
Verizon rep called. Told me I will get my ISDN install next week. Not bad huh? Told me her email address. Said will email me contract and line info. No email. Try sending email to her — bounced.
She called. My email did not work. I think their email […]

Geographic vs Virtual Citizenship
Today what nationality you belong to in the real world matters. Are you America? Nihonjin? British Subject? Soon perhaps your country affilation no longer matter. It is which virtual community that you belong to that matters.

How will that happen? Can a virtual community have “citizenship”? What will be the power base?
AOL users […]

ISDN Live Rep!!
Two weeks later. What’s the change the Verizon biz office not forwarding my
ISDN order inquiry to the ISDN office? 100%. Called customer service from verizon website: 1-800-870-9999. Talked to a real person. Gave me another number: 1-800-438-4736 (GET-ISDN).

Another real person answered. We are on a roll? Placed a new order, got a confirmation […]

ISDN Update
Verizon’s ISDN group still have not call me regarding selling me
a new ISDN line. No surprise here.

Tissue Update
Ikuko just told me that other brands of tissues in Japan
also have the SIGNAL feature!

Another great product design
Kleenex has a feature called “SIGNAL” in their tissue boxes. When the box is about to run out, a tissue of a different color comes up to tell you to get a new box before it really runs out.

DSL/ISDN in Lexington MA, again…
Well, my long trouble SDSL line is 90% dead. I am somewhere between
15000 and 19000 feet from the Verizon CO. So even at 192KB it is
not very stable. COVAD asked Verizon to “put electronics on the line”
and Verizon refuse to do it. There is no way out according to my
ISP Shore […]