I'm Gina Smith

Steve Wozniak and The Who

Last night I went to see The Who concert at Shoreline with my friend, Michele, and her friend, Steve Wozniak. He brought along a bunch of Segways and we zoomed around the parking lot wowing everyone.

This is an interesting guy. A prankster, kind of. Much more so than any of my previous reading on Apple had shown. You know I've interviewed all these guys a million times -- Ellison, Gates, Jobs, McNealy, blah blah -- but never Woz.

Now I see what I was missing.

If he sends me a joke, I'll post it to you guys. And I put a pic on the photo album.
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I forgot to mention, August 8 is the lucky day of the year for many of the world's population. Perhaps, I should get to the bottom of this !

Chess Champion Kasparov Takes On VR Chess Match (but what happened to Deep Blue?)

Is anyone else wondering what happened to Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer that used to battle Kasparov?

Now he's playing VR systems.

Yahoo! News - Chess Great Kasparov Faces NY Virtual Reality Test

Chess Great Kasparov Faces NY Virtual Reality Test

NEW YORK (Reuters) - There will be no chess board and no pieces when world No. 1 Garry Kasparov plays the latest so-called man vs machine contest next week, just a computer monitor and a chessboard image as seen through 3D glasses.

Former world champion Kasparov, 40, pits his genius against "X3D Fritz," a combination of Fritz, the most dominant chess software, with X3D Technologies company software that specializes in virtual reality.
The four-game match starts on Tuesday at the New York Athletic Club with the other games scheduled for Nov. 13, 16 and 18.

Each game, which can last up to seven hours, will be broadcast on several chess Web sites. Kasparov will wear 3D glasses while sitting in front of a monitor showing the board. Promoters said the glasses will have the effect of making the board's image realistic, floating in front of him, but Kasparov will have to adjust to not being able to reach out, touch the pieces and move them.

"I don't know how much negative pressure this virtual environment will have on my mind," Kasparov said on Friday at a news conference to promote the event.

Take a philosophy quiz. I did.

I am still up after midnight because I have been taking the philosophy quiz I found at slumberfogey.

Which reminds me. About a year ago, when NIC closed, I briefly considered applying to the PhD program in philosophy at Berkeley. (How stereotypically dot com, no? Company closes. Go back to school.) I had lunch with the head of the program, who was retiring the next day. He told me he was flooded with requests like this. All the ex dot commers want PhDs, I guess.

I wonder if they still do, or if they've all just given up and now write blogs.

Hey. I resemble that!

Here is the quiz.

Is there any evidence mind-reading works? (BBC)

I find it hard to believe that magician/stuntman Derren Brown survived that televised game of Russian Roulette. But mind-reading? Nah.

Thanks to the Abysmal Link Blog for turning me on to this story.