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Toronto, 2001.07.09

Met with a fellow from a moving outfit, today. He took me over to my storage unit to have a look at my things, with the idea of estimating the cost of the move. Of course, I'd left my keys and Ken and Heidi's place on the weekend, so I had to have them break my lock. The girl behind the counter couldn't do it, so I got to use the bolt cutters. Interesting experience.

No matter; got a good quote, and I'm happy.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton