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Weirdness at the Internet Highway
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(Jim)
This is one of the more bizarre experiences of the trip. Jack and I are here in the nice, modern Internet Highway place in central Ubud, Bali. It is quite late at night. I have a conference call in a few minutes, and the internet is down at our hotel, so we came into town. Jack wanted to come with me, ostensibly to keep me company, but really to play an online tank battle game.
Sitting across the table from me at the laptop station is a skinny fellow who looks like he is in drag, very smelly, who is chanting while he tells tarot cards for the nice lady who works the night shift here at the internet place. He is wearing bell-bottom capris, what looks like a wizard's cape, and looks a great deal like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
It is going to be hard to have a coherent conversation with my office about investment policy and business structure while half-listening to this clown chatter about astrology signs and the meanings of the Three of Cups and the King of Swords in the tarot deck.
Yowsa. He is full of bad news for this poor girl. Heartache, miscarriages, bad relationships. "This person you will marry had trouble with the government, he was here, but he's not here now, he will come back in two months. He is a friend of your other friend. If he is here right now, he is not supposed to be here right now. He has trouble." He keeps saying, "You know what I mean?" after each absurd prediction. The girl's look of utter confusion indicates that she does not.
It is all I can do to avoid muttering, "Bull---t!" under my breath. Still, he appears to mean no harm. After all, as Buckaroo Banzai once said, "Wherever you go, there you are."
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