| Wednesday, May 8, 2002 |
21:15 - Huh huh huh huh. That was cool.
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Well, the radio interview went really well, by all accounts. Kris and Chris were listening to the Real stream there in the lab, and Chris made an ON AIR sign (with flashing blue LED back-light) for me to hang outside my cubicle. He also fended off the cleaning lady with the vacuum cleaner who came in and started drowning me out towards the end of the hour.
My mom called me five minutes after the show ended to tell me she'd caught the whole thing-- that it was a really interesting show, that I didn't get too esoteric or unintelligible, and that she'd almost got my old boss Jim to phone in and harass me. (It would have been an improvement on our actual call-ins, as a matter of fact-- we just got one guy asking for the Ukiah Mac Users Group phone number, and a lady with a question about fonts and PDF printing in OS X.)
Both the hosts were big OS X fans, actually, which made for a nice set of common ground. There was all kinds of stuff to talk about, and I didn't even get to some of the stuff I wanted to bring up (Apple's stance on "fair use", for example, versus Microsoft's firmly pro-Hollings stance-- it's in Apple's interest to produce cool software that lets people do new stuff, because that might encourage people to switch platforms; but it's against Microsoft's interest to innovate in that area or to support creativity tools, because that threatens their ability to strike licensing deals with other corporations-- and because they don't need to woo anybody to Windows). So maybe I'll see if I can get on a future show. There's all kinds of opinions that I wouldn't mind transferring from blog to radio...!
All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Hey Lileks! I'm one 'a you now! (Shyeah...)
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