22nd
Friends, I’m pretty sure that this is when I fell for ChatRoulette. I was super terrified of it (for reasons other than fear of witnessing a murder) for weeks, but then my friends were using it in the bar and I thought that it would be funny if, after leaving them, I went home and found them on it. But it’s kind of hard to randomly find someone among 20,000 people.
And then I guess I thought it would be funny to let ChatRoulette watch me cook dinner while I listened to new albums, which turned out to be very addictive. Later, I let it watch me read, and some guy who was also reading helped me remember that the Tableaux part of Infinite Jest is in the main text and not the endnotes. It’s all very, Old Internet all over again.
You have to wonder just how much this must be killing Josh Harris that he came up with We Live In Public so far ahead of everyone having webcams and broadband.
