moon_custafer | Weekend Update

Friday after finding the Diners at an overpriced North End Chinese restaurant we went to see anonyomous Don's new apartment which is now presentable. Slightly brighter than I pictured it, otherwise what one would expect of the man - plain, comfortable, with more bookshelves than chairs (although he did take great delight in assembling an inflatable thingumebob for his guests to sit/lounge upon); green_trilobite was jealous because we have not moved yet.

Saturday morning we took Carter to the vet (just a check-up and booster shot), then rested a ouple of hours before heading out agian to photograph Terry Gilliam - green_trilobite was asked a couple of weeks ago: Terry Gilliam is going to be at the Merril - can you take pictures? (correct answer = Big Yes). They sprang a large piece of paper on him to draw cartoons, but really he was in town to promote his new film Tideland (opens Oct 20th, it's independent and needs all the publicity it can get).

Afterwards we went to Zale's birthday party at Charles', theengineer gave people souvenirs from his recent trip to London (he'd already given me mine on Thursday - a chocolate Rosetta Stone fragment), Don & I taught Dee to play Battleships while Charles said haha my evil plan (leaving out games)worked. Afterwards Don & Patrick played Battleships but it was a very slow game because they kept stopping to talk about codebreaking.

At some point Kim Jong Il was a twit; this was not really a surprise. What has really interested me the most so far was a series of postings on BoingBoing in which someone wrote about using Google Earth to confirm the nuclear test, or at least that a seismographic disturbance had come from the spot where the test was said to have taken place, at the time it was said to have taken place. I feel like Google Earth is making the surface of the planet as familiar to people as their own skin.