Members: Enter the conference to participate. All posts made in this conference are world-readable. RSS feed of new responses. Jump to last response in this topic. Join Us. Remember me on this computer. Need help logging in? For more than ten years, Quan worked as a call girl, starting her sex work journey when still a teenager. Her articles about topics ranging from early puberty to artificial intelligence have appeared in Salon.
An archive appears at www. Leading the discussion is Jef Poskanzer, who has been playing with these computer thingies since the early s. These days he does consulting and software development, mostly relating to high-performance web servers. He has been involved in online communities also since the s, and has been on the WeLL since He reads a lot, which is how he got nominated for this interview gig - he read the original Nancy Chan series in Salon, and sent Tracy some email commenting on it.
He was born in New York City, and, while he has never lived there, he loves to visit. Please join me in welcoming Tracy and Jef to inkwell. Tracy and I actually weren't sure the interview would proceed, given last week's events in New York. But the consensus response seems to be to return to normalcy as much as possible. Even so, I think my first question has to be: Tracy, what has life in Manhattan been like for the past week? I know a few people who were at the scene of the disaster -- about to enter the WTC or walking around the neighborhood.
They feel very lucky to be alive and intact -- yet displaced. The gal who does my facials came into work on the "day of mourning" because she needed to get back to work as quickly as possible and start making money to buy clothes for her two kids.
She couldn't get back into her home, didn't know if it was still standing, and the weather had turned cool all of a sudden. So the day of prayer was a work day for her I guess what I'm saying is that daily rituals can be more valuable than national rituals. I've often felt and said that "work is the most important thing we do" -- now I really feel it more strongly than ever.
