I would be lying if I said that for the first time in ages I left work when the sun was still up, but this factual error would only have been caused by geographical circumstances resulting in darkness even at 6:30. The reason for leaving so early was a presentation at the Pink Cow today, a bar / event space in Shibuya that is always filled with people whose work days regularily seem to end around this time. It is therefore probably healthy for me to go there more often.

Today's talk was a multimedia presentation by (according to his name card) Discordian Evangelist Tim Pritlove of Germany's Chaos Computer Club, who is a driving force behind Project Blinkenlights, during which the CCC turned an empty building into a giant low-res computer screen. Tim spoke about the history and activities of CCC and hackers in general, and gave a nice look behind the scenes of the original Blinkenlights in Berlin (which interestingly enough launched on September 11, 2001) and a follow-up project at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris.

Obviously, there was talk (wishful thinking?) among the audience about bringing the Blinkenteam to Tokyo, but no one present was well-connected enough to have a large enough building (and a large enough budget) at their disposal.