I found this video of Jennifer Ringley’s appearance on the Letterman show hidden away on an unlabeled VHS tape that had been sitting in a drawer probably since the day I recorded it.<\/p>\n
Better her than me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
In 1998 I was contacted by the talent people at Letterman. They wanted me on the show to talk about (what else?) payphones. I later inferred that they were casting about trying to find something unique to this still-rising Internet thing, and they had a choice between me and Jenni, and most likely others as well.<\/p>\n
If faced with a choice between a depressed dude looking for human contact through ringing payphones and a young woman getting naked on the Internet I think their choice to go with Jenni was a no-brainer.<\/p>\n
That said, there was a legitimate Letterman connection, in that my website was partly inspired by his skits where he called payphones in NYC and talked to whoever answered. Those could be awesomely funny.<\/p>\n
But in retrospect I am confident Dave would have made me look like an idiot, deliberately or not.<\/p>\n
His interview w\/Jenni had some prescient questions and observations, I thought, even if they were probably funneled to him directly from his more web-savvy staff.<\/p>\n
I’ve been a fan of lifecasting, too, though like everything Internet it’s become relatively commonplace. I had multiple still-image webcams for many years, as early as 1995, I believe; and I also streamed live on CuSeeMe once in a while. It seemed like all I ever found on CuSeeMe was men masturbating.<\/p>\n
Now I livestream the view from my apartment window 24\/7. I maintain surveillance cameras in all my rooms but little of that gets shared publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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