Three days. Four shows.
Kept forgetting to eat. Oops! Good food when I remembered.
Beautiful weather.
Brunch with wonderful friends.
A day spent hanging with my company's founder.
10-15 miles of walking.
Five modes of non-pedestrian traffic. Error rate: 0.
One club, meeting one really cute girl and discovering I've known her online for 15 years.
Perfect hotel, perfect location.
Visited the World Trade Center. Anger overwhelmed sadness.
Randomly found some backgammon players in a park and watched a chouette for a bit.
Cry Baby: fun, good but not great.
South Pacific: magnificent, what I came here to see and worth the trip.
Gypsy: Patti LuPone gave the single best performance I've ever seen-- literally show-stopping.
Passing Strange: strange, passably good. It woke up in the second act.
This morning I got spammed multiple times by some dude who seems to have added a bejillion people to his neighborhood in order to promote his music. I think that what he did is post a bunch of stuff, and with each post he picked everyone in his neighborhood and notified them of the post. I did what any sane person would do, and blocked him.
However, this totally blows. It's an opt-out rather than an opt-in model for spam. I should not have to go opt out each and every time someone does this-- the system shouldn't permit it at all. A better design would have been for the poster to be presented with a list of people who have him in their neighborhood. These people have already indicated a positive interest and reading this person's blatherings, which can reasonably be treated as an opt-in for notifications that he's spewed.
As it exists right now, the system is eminently abusable. It wouldn't be hard to write a script that walked through the site and added everyone it found to your neighborhood, then write another script that checks everyone in your neighborhood every time you post something. Voila... Vox becomes a big (?) spam cannon.
In fact, I think I may spam my neighbors with this just to prove my point. :-)
If you're getting spammed by some guy who wants to share his new music with you even though you have no idea who he is, it's easy to solve. Go to his blog, hover over his user picture, and click "block".
I hope you enjoy the visibly empty box you grabbed. I hope it was worth the $2200 in damage to my car.
