Saturday, August 5, 2006
Woke up around 7; did my usual morning run; took a shower; washed dishes; had my favorite breakfast plus fresh white nectarines; tidied a bit in the apartment; donated $10 to Gabriel Handford, the author of Slickr, the best Flickr screensaver I've seen to date. Went to see the 12:00 noon show of An Inconvenient Truth at the Embarcadero theater followed by Jamie Schindler's memorial service at Aaron's place. The film was very convincing, and I have greater respect for Al Gore after seeing it. I liked how he wove in his own personal journey into the story. The music is at times overly dramatic, and when I later went online and saw a trailer for the film I thought it felt really weird to hear the standard Hollywood announcer voice pitch doing the voiceover for it—that didn't seem to fit unless it was a way of convincing the media-saturated American people into thinking it was a Hollywood movie. Anyhow, go see this film in the theater if possible—I think it'll mean more statisticswise if you see it in the theatre than on DVD. After the film, we felt guilty driving to Aaron's place. The memorial went well. Patrick said afterwards that it went perfectly and that it was exactly as Jamie would have wanted. Everyone was there, and I can't remember all the names, but here's an attempt: Aaron, Patrick, Alina, Kai, Nicole, Demetrius, Evan, Victoriana, Pauline, Ken, Joanne, Judah, Jared, Brian, Brian M, Stephen, Apphia, Kelsey, Paul, Gregory, Kenny, Paul Edwards, Jennifer, Jason, Ian, Greg, Mike, David, Marsha, Noodles, Budgie (sp?), and more.