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...Afterward, Thomas took me into her office, where she keeps her parrot and a stack of paintings by Phyllis Diller, and made a series of desperate phone calls to get rooms at Disneyland for her daughter's birthday the next day. "Two connecting rooms that have no theme and are not a suite?" she said disgustedly. "Well, we'll survive." She then had someone put in a call to Michael Eisner to theme and suite things up. This woman gets things done...
...citizens who aren't afraid to go straight to the top. "Requests from schoolteachers asking you to give advice to students on how to read literature," Simic says, "or from a business association in Topeka asking you to read a poem at the opening of a convention. My cell phone would ring, and a high government official would ask me to fix a poem written by her late father to read at his memorial service. Sometimes I wanted to go just to see who these people were, but you can't do everything...
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...broadcast quality of cell-phone video on these sites is still imperfect - it's often grainy, occasionally blurry and nearly always a step below video-camera clarity. Sometimes videos freeze and audio is muffled. For those committed to higher-quality images, Eye-Fi sells a wi-fi-enabled SD memory card for digital still cameras that stores your photos and uploads them automatically via a wireless network to your home computer or to the online photo-sharing site of your choice. (The technology has surprising advantages: in June, a camera thief in Florida inadvertently turned himself in when the images...
...Cell-phone broadcasting has caught on in some unexpected places. Republican Congressman John Culberson of Texas recently filmed and broadcast 25 Qik videos, including one meta-video: live footage of the Phoenix Mars landing from the Jet Propulsion Lab control room in Pasadena, Calif. H2o News, which broadcasts events for the Vatican, has streamed dozens of Qik videos so far, including some documenting the Pope's travels. But even for more mundane occasions, Qik's early fans say it's satisfying to know you could broadcast anything to anyone in the world at a second's notice should the need...