May 03 2007
shootings and labelmakers and bikes
oh my.
So, yesterday was pretty fun, as I rode to Georgia Tech from our house for the first time (about 4 1/2 miles via the coffeeshop). There was this thingy from the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture’s Digital Media…department? at Bonnie’s school and I went to it and saw people we’ve had drinks with before (Judy’s friends Manu and Will) and talked about collaborative protest quilts with mandala-like qualities. What do you think about a digital media project where you can upload sound clips or video clips or pictures that would then reassemble randomly with all other contributed content to create a continuous video/flash stream? And in order to get around liability things, as things were assembled and played it the content would be destroyed, a la Philip K Dick’s idea of the biographical video that relatives could watch after the passing.
Anyway. They had this kiosk set up where you could do onsite registration and it would immediately print a label to affix on your badge. I was delirious by the end what with all the technology flying about and reconditioned my badge at the now-unsupervised kiosk despite Bonnie’s threats. Coincidentally, using “a” as your university and “student” as your occupation was very convenient. I am very pleased with the following:
Then, that evening, as I was conferring with RR, we heard 5 distinct gunshots near our house. The dog went crazy and Heather continued to sit on the couch and said it was prolly a car backfiring. About 2 min later we hear the first sirens and see the blue lights reflecting on our white painted porch railing. Indeed there was a shooting - and actually 2 that night about 5 blocks away for each! So we’re not sure if it was this or this that was happening at that moment.
