This meeting I'm attending has today as designated as our "Activity" day - golf, sailing, go-kart racing, etc. I opted for a massage, since neither Shopping nor Total Lethargy was offered as an option.

How awkward is it to talk about business with a (female) coworker when you're naked in a jacuzzi and she's dressed in a robe? Very. Thank god the bubbles were on.

Books: Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow. An interesting literary experiment (or maybe it’s an experiment in the viral nature of information): publish the hardcopy book at the same time it’s made available online via a Creative Commons license so that it can be distributed and copied and dispersed throughout the electronic ether. I downloaded this last year when it came out and only rediscovered it when browsing through my hard drive to see what could be deleted. So far, I’m enjoying it more than his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a story about Disney and the Haunted Mansion and living in a time when you can be regenerated.