Sunday, August 15, 2004

I downloaded Picasa. So far I like it and recommend it; it beats trawling through folders looking for pictures, although it doesn't display GIF files -- at least that I'm aware of.





The weather was excellent today. I started "Teranesia" and had a hemp bracelet assembled before my very eyes by a shoeless hippie girl who'd set up a work-station on the sidewalk near Barnes & Noble. $5.00. Not bad. Passersby handed her friends styrofoam containers of left-over food as I sat on the pavement. Very bohemian. I was surprised when the girl mentioned that she kept in touch with friends via email. (Evidently they'd amassed enough gas money shortly after my purchase, because by the time I came out of the bookstore some time later they were gone.)

I fished through her selection of beads while she worked on the bracelet. All sorts of interesting stuff: geodes harvested from the Ozarks; a conspicuous pewter skull; a fertility goddess figurine; beads that looked like they'd been hewn from cork. I asked her if she'd ever thought of using cannibalized electronics -- capacitors, IC chips, etc. -- along with her usual materials and she gave me a strange look.

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