Here is a video of the press conference. I'm the one on the left.
I think given everything we held it together pretty well.
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It was incredibly stressful as my friend/roommate Zebbler and I kept calling the people who'd hired us once we saw something went wrong. They said they had it under control, and not to call the police.
It took them from 10am (our first call) until around 4pm to notify the Boston police. By which point the city was shut down, and lots of people were pissed off. The police needed someone to blame for people's frustrations around traffic etc.
Zebbler and I cooperated fully, but we were still arrested and thrown in jail (without being offered any dinner or blankets even, in January in Boston).
To us clearly this was post 9/11 over-reaction. We wanted to draw attention to how absurd it was for the police to be accusing us of intentionally trying to scare people by planting "hoax devices".
There was a lot of press outside, and we knew we wouldn't be able to talk about the case. There was also a good 100+ people who had organized to protest in support of us on Livejournal :)
We knew this moment (of police over-reach and culture-deafness) deserved more than "no comment". We brainstormed for a moment when we were brought back together in the courtroom and decided on our topic for the press: Hairstyles of the 1970's.
Something neither of us know anything about. We're both pretty good at thinking on our feet. Couldn't have imagined the situation would have become so big.
I wanted to go to court and ride it out, but Zebbler was in the USA on political asylum from Belarus. They strongly suggested if we both didn't go along with community service, he'd lose that and any hope of citizenship, quite possibly be deported. (He's now a full US Citizen :)
Someone at a nearby hospital saw what was happening and requested we do our community service there, and they made it as pleasant as possible.
Surreal experience!
Many things made it feel like fun was illegal in Boston. I've since moved to San Francisco Bay Area.
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I bet if you can execute better they would love to hire you! ;)
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Perhaps Apple was overselling how good they are? /s
/s (to some extent)
I think we spent a month+ working on cursive writing. Which for me was a waste of time. I did inform the teacher I believed it was pointless, as people would be typing in the future. This would have been maybe 1985, me in 1st or 2nd grade.
I definitely did not see that one!
Any recollection about which year/camp/approximate location on playa/name of project/pics or similar?
IMHO, Apple made the right decision with Next because of Jobs. I’d sure like to see the results of the alternate timeline!
I still feel like Be could be great for phones/mobile, maybe VR. (Just as it was so foundationally low latency)
(Note I am aware of Haiku, etc. I’m using “Be” to mean something from its linage)
Side note - Jean-Louis Gassée, founder(?) of Be is very insightful. He writes some excellent short form tech world analysis at http://mondaynote.com/
Relatedly most subscription apps that remove ads, it should really be $5-10/year at most. Imho.
I don’t like ads.
It could even lower the net asbestos on earth :) (not /s, though I attempting to add humor)
That is my anecdata.
I think it’s quite an accomplishment and can see it being an on-ramp for more people to eat less meat. Which I think is probably good.
Perhaps that it has intrinsic value, can be consumed, and more can be made would cancel out inflation/deflation at some equilibrium point?
To be fair my eyes are getting worse.
I feel like some real thought/attention was paid to people’s feelings.
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