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And working on a laptop that I actually know how to start. Thanks to Michelle Calka for her heroic efforts diagnosing the problem with it, during the writing exercise.

Thanks also to Michelle for preserving this Super Scrabble game. Lee had a lead for most of the game, but I finally got lucky with two triple word scores and "VIDIOTIC."

Had a lengthy-- even for me-- chat with Bryan Prindiville about his work and Clickwheel and the possible intersect of the two.

Spent the last two days blazing through Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (not his best, though there were a lot of neat ideas and he writes about Web connectivity the way Melville writes about whaling) driving down to D.C. and thence to Virginia Beach (where I'm staying with my folks for a few months).

Got to see Ashby Gunter, an old college chum who seems to have found his niche in bookstore management. The last time I saw him was just after his marriage when his wife was already quite heavy with child; that was a year ago, where does the time go? Shbee had been holding an Ultimate Spider-Man hardcover for me since then, along with the change from the money I gave him to buy it from his bookstore. Knowing Shbee, this'll probably be the last time we talk to each other for another year. It's not just me: he's a really nice guy but if you can't hunt him down in person, don't wait for him to return your calls.

Dave Belmore and I met up in the evening and recorded another podcast after spending about an hour debating the merits of 'casting about the Denmark controversy. I lost. Dave maintains that it's the same kind of censorship we've protested on smaller scales before, and what he had to say then hasn't changed. On the other hand, I think I won the debate about Smallville, which you'll get to hear fairly soon. Lest this seem too much like a competition, I've got to say that the idea behind the latest 'cast online is awesome and pretty much all Dave's.

We need to do a bit of catch-up with both Meanwhile and Rip & Teri, and I anticipate the usual confab with William Simons, but most of today's reserved for songwriting. Divalicious needs about six more sets of lyrics. Time to see if MasterWriter justifies its price tag at all...