wasted trip, but had to try

Wasted two-hour round-trip to the new campus this evening in quest of Prince of Networks, but it wasn’t there yet. I give up, and will wait for Ian Bogost to bring me a copy from Atlanta as he kindly promised. I’ll post about his books again in the next day or so. They are about videogames, which he designs, and about which he is a world authority, but the first two books are also literate philosophical treatises. I’ll do a post and link to them all before he arrives for his Microsoft event. This was lucky timing, and I will be meeting both him and my own book for the first time in the same instant, and you all know I love quirky little coincidences of this sort.

But as for the trip to campus… It wasn’t completely a waste, because it’s so breezy and beautiful out there at night, especially when it’s largely deserted as was the case this evening. But there’s no question, it’s pretty far from central Cairo. I could have been in downtown Alexandria in as much time as it took me to get to my office and back.