shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhi, it is a coffee house!

(we are all so unique, just like everyone else, apple people headsup!!!)

Always like american's lighthearted humor. the captian on my NW flight reminded me to "fast the seatbelt, turn off the cellphone and IPOD before taking off". how did he know? oh well, he knew! he knew he was probabely talking to 75% of people on board.

here i am, in SF Mission district's institutional coffee house. Standard COOL-looking crowd that you rutinely see in hotspots in most hip cities, yet, what a hotspot!-- Armed with a MAC laptop and a tall latte, wearing a thoughtful frown on the face, body in one place and mind somewhere else, no one seems take notice on the surroundings...

I often have difficulties to keep body&mind in one place at the same time anyway, but think! alone& together, the ways we have of avoiding and evading each other in public just keep piling up.

I keep reminding myself this is a cafe and i am allowed to socialize. but diguised by the blarring music, the cafe feels silent, like a libarary where talking is appropriate only when neseccery, (ordering?). i could also have as well be walking in the street, ride a buse or hang out in the park in... maybe idaho? IF, only if airport there also works...

i know i sound all technophobic fretting,(what i am doing at this very moment? =) when anything exciting and unknown is just a google click away and our loved ones are on msn, who needs to look up and notice who else is around and what he might have to offer?

well, Me@!taking blogshots! and Eri. The only guy came to Ritual with a low-tech equipment, a paperback " to be seen with but not very readable" rassian classic. He finally accknowledged my existence by noticing -- hey, what you are doing? i turned off flashlight,

-- to show people, including you: behind these screens, hide us, all turning into solitary computer geeks, connected by technology, to technology, but divorced from one another.