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With all respect to Carreyrou, who's done some very important journalism and written one of my all time favorite non-fiction books ...
It's kinda sad to see yet another underwhelming long-form article "unmasking" Satoshi.
What a white whale that story has become.
My Apple watch gave me credit for standing for every hour today except for the two hours I was standing at my standing desk.
Sitting is the new smoking and standing is the new sitting.
So I'm doing a routine managerial task in a SAS platform (e.g. approving a leave or entering a performance rating) and the UI gives me a screen burst of confetti when I finish.
When did it become okay to gamify serious workaday tasks like this? It's absurd and infantilizing.
The PM responsible for this should be sent to a gulag.
Swimming from San Francisco to Alcatraz: Medium
Swimming from San Francisco to Alcatraz without a wetsuit: Hard
Swimming from San Francisco to Alcatraz without a wetsuit and without consulting the tide charts: INSANELY Hard
Though perhaps I should not assume the coyote didn't review the tide charts.
So Perry wandered off to the back stage area and came back about 15 minutes later with the jacket signed by all of the Cure (I think they were like a 6 piece at that time) including Smith and Simon Gallup. Needless to say, super-fan was overwhelmed. Put everyone nearby in a good mood for the rest of the concert.
Perry is back in the Cure these days after a long absence. Good for him.
As we waited for Interpol to go on super-fan spotted then-Cure member Perry Bamonte off to side of the stage. She called out to him and he wandered over.
Super-fan asked him to sign her jacket -- he took a look at the jacket and sort of did a mental calculation about how big a fan she must be, asking, "did you paint this yourself?"
She nodded. He said "would you like me to see if the rest of the band can sign it?" She was like, "uh, yeah" (cont)
A Cure story for their first new song in 16 years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-27/the-cure-new-song-alone-songs-of-a-lost-world/104403980
In 2004 I saw the Curiosa Festival in New York (with the Cure, Interpol, Mogwai, the Rapture and others).
We managed to get all the way to the front for Interpol and the Cure. Next to us was a Cure super-fan and her boyfriend. She had a denim jacked with a hand-painted portrait of Robert Smith on the back and told us she was traveling to a few of the festival dates (cont.)
Glyph
