{"id":993,"date":"2002-07-17T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2002-07-18T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2002-07-17T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2002-07-18T00:14:12","slug":"paulina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Paulina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>lives in a sunstruck bungalow that consists almost entirely of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/external-search\/102-5344985-9204152?tag=opera-20&amp;index=blended&amp;keyword=paulina+borsook\">books<\/a>, though there are a few walls scattered around for verisimilitude. At her desk is a monitor, a small dot-matrix printer, and a big flying saucer Microsoft ergonomic keyboard, same as I use, but no computer.<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nEven for a Californian technology writer, this looked minimalist. When I caught up with her, I asked what she&#8217;d done with the <span class=\"caps\">CPU. <\/span>&#8220;I&#8217;m allergic to it&#8221;, she replied: &#8220;It&#8217;s in a shed until I figure out what it is about it that makes me ill&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p>This started with a Berkeley moment: talking with Bruce Koball on a cafe terrace. A young man goes past wheeling a bicycle, with a Japanese length of cane about two inches think and the length of a samurai sword, strapped to his back. The handle is bound in alternating red and yellow cloth. In the bicycle of his basket he has a tortoiseshell kitten and a small white rat, which play together. It&#8217;s the kind of bustling villagey intersection where, if you stay long enough, everyone you need to know will walk past. there are cars, but they&#8217;re dispirited and outnumbered.<\/p>\n\n<p>Bruce says the 22 years ago there was nothing here but Bette&#8217;s oceanview diner and some warehouses. I make a joke about oceanview being advertising <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lives in a sunstruck bungalow that consists almost entirely of books, though there are a few walls scattered around for verisimilitude. At her desk is a monitor, a small dot-matrix printer, and a big flying saucer Microsoft ergonomic keyboard, same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}