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The future is dull...

Posted January 2, 2000 11:17 AM.

Dull as it seems, my resolution for the upcoming year is to "do more gay things". I have decided that I know altogether too many straight people and far far too few gay people. I mean, am I not in touch with my community? Where is my sense of solidarity?

The web has been completely dead over the last couple of weeks - Christmas particularly killed peoples' desire to surf, and New Year seems to have done the same. The Nexus is almost empty, Kottke and Powazek have hardly been writing at all, there are no new IPOs on HSX and page views on barbelith have halved in around a week. It's all very aggravating.

Wired has exceeded expectations by producing the most boring "Things that will happen in the year 2000" I have ever seen. It's probably accurate, but frankly who cares when the future's so dull!

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