I stood by fighting tears while three officers looked over the auction printouts I brought and snickered.
I walked across the street to a Starbucks and for the rest of the day read a tall stack of printouts I'd made about the case from the Web site of Novaya Gazeta, Politkovskaya's old paper.
"They ran a fingerprint check on me and gave me a printout saying I wasn't the guy they wanted," he said.
"But what is he doing?" the visitor asked, indicating Cage, who was drawing on a plate, consulting computer printouts of I Ching hexagrams before he made each mark.
Above the security guard's monitor was a printout that read: I can only please one person per day Today is not your day Tomorrow is not looking good either.
And indeed, the claim is true, although the printouts and notebooks I used as a test mousing surface ultimately, and perhaps predictably, crashed to the floor.
I decided to find out, arming myself with a bag lunch, a clutch of train schedules, not one but two fresh notebooks and a printout of an idea I'd been trying to get to for months.
A middle-aged Asian woman silently held up an English-language e-mail printout asking for directions; I spotted Chinese characters on it and asked her, in my dodgy Mandarin, "You're Chinese, right?" A little stunned, she said yes.
He has books with printouts of everything, so I'm pretty familiar with it".
Spreading my scrawled-upon printouts across a desk, I'm not just accessing data; I'm reviewing the idiosyncratic geography of something I created, carried and adorned.
