Thursday, July 07, 2005
Robot Wisdom on the Street
"Five years later, in the San Francisco afternoon, it's hard to reconcile these energetic and intellectually omnivorous posts with the anxious, awkward man on the sidewalk. Speaking quietly in sentences as short as his blog entries, Barger seems ready to implode. It turns out he has good reasons: Homeless and broke at age 53, he allowed the domain registration for robotwisdom.com to lapse and can't afford to re-up it." (Via Beyond the Beyond.)
"Five years later, in the San Francisco afternoon, it's hard to reconcile these energetic and intellectually omnivorous posts with the anxious, awkward man on the sidewalk. Speaking quietly in sentences as short as his blog entries, Barger seems ready to implode. It turns out he has good reasons: Homeless and broke at age 53, he allowed the domain registration for robotwisdom.com to lapse and can't afford to re-up it." (Via Beyond the Beyond.)
4 comments:
There but for the grace of God go many of us, I think!
Robot Wisdom, though, is an unbelievable discovery!
This from the Bill Bixby haiku contest:
Bill Bixby is dead.
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
I don't get it. The article almost gives the impression that the blogging and his homelessness are somehow related.
A cautionary real-life fable?
A cautionary real-life fable?
I don't think it's so much cautionary as it is kind of making the point that this guy is truly authentic because he's consistently refused to run any ads on his blog and even pulled support for another blogger who started running ads. Not exactly your corporate type, I don't think.