hmmm.

[rwx]

I'd almost forgotten about this interview from 2004, in which I was wackily misquoted in the NYT so that the writer could make some point about the dotcom era vs. 2004 that was largely irrelevant to the actual questions I answered in the interview.

rwx, a software engineer in Seattle, said that he was doing his usual handful of summer trips this year, but less extravagantly than he did during the go-go days. Mr. Reed, 33 years old, said that he would attend a family wedding in New York and would make his annual pilgrimage to the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. There is also a run down to San Francisco to see friends who try to get together now and then, sometimes in exotic locations. Not this year. ''Typically, the trips might be bigger,'' he said. ''This year I'm likelier to go to a large group of friends where everyone is getting together,'' rather than make trips to more far-flung places.
''It's partially the economy, it's partially that it's harder to get the cheap tickets and travel conveniently when you've got work,'' he said.

I think I'm one of the people least likely on the planet to describe burning man as a pilgrimage, but it does get the sense of my overuse of the english language when speaking. It valiantly (looking at my transcript of the remarks in my mail archive) strives to miss the point I made in this interview, which was more about payiing for two to travel than one than economic changes.

Yeah, googling myself to see if anything silly comes up in the first couple of pages.