As your little voice, I advise you to acquire a "little voice" immediately! Of course. Clearly a necessary item. I will begin searching this evening. Thompson, after all, had one: "There's a place up ahead called Mescal Springs," he said. As your attorney, I advise you to stop and take a swim.'" There are a couple of even nicer As your attorney I advise you to.... lines in Fear and Loathing, but I couldn't find them without too much rereading. I'll have to call it something else though, "little voice" doesn't cut it for a Sole Proprietor (and anyway, it's Pamie's), but something will come. Then I'll cop it outright.

"As your xxxxxx I advise you to pick up that cute little hors de oeuvre with the pale salmon snippets and the nice yellow (curdled in California) cheese crumbles and wash it down with another fish bowl filled with Champagne and, having done that, do it again." Why yes, that's a very good idea. I think I'll do that right now and check out those giant shrimp thingies with the hot remelted Mozzarella cheese while I'm at it!

Notice the taboos being broken have to do with food. American taboos. There are other taboos a "little voice" could stir about as well: Sex, drugs and, dear god, skipping your journal entry. This evening. Now.

As an aside (tacked here onto the bottom), I attended a streaming video seminar this afternoon. Video I don't know and as a still photographer I'm not sure I want to know, but it's coming "real soon". Then I read the paper on the way home.

It reported an announcement by Pac Bell of a new $49 a month fee for unlimited ADSL usage in the Bay Area. That price includes Internet access. ADSL not only gives you lots of bandwidth for video, it has plenty of room for telephone communication as well. The hardware installation charge, which ran about $1,000 last I checked, is now $198, $148 if you've got your own Ethernet card. Is streaming video on the horizon? Do you still need a line for your telephone? ISPs? Are they in business now?

I need time to think about what this means. I'd like to have my webcam pointing at something other than the vacant lot across Broadway through my office window, but I can't afford to connect to my ISP 24 hours per day from home. I can now. I could run my own web server and skip an ISP altogether. For $49 per month. Amazing. Or is there something in that story I missed, something that Pac Bell didn't tell?