mr. bowden spoke for a little over an hour of the computer history museum in mountain viewt californiaa. gpplause] >> good evening everyone. we are going to do this inoingdh several parts. i'm going to do a very briefa vi introduction and then on mark ig going to do a brief reading andf then we are going to have a q&a and then i think the cards areog going to come up and we will make this as inclusive as possible. as possible. for the discussion tonight, mark bowden as a journalist to of course you probably all know is the author also of black hawk down and the basis for the movie directed by ridley scott. mark was a journalist first 1979 to 2003. he was of the philadelphia inquirer and for three seasons he covered football, is the right? >> that's right. islamic he's written for the new yorker, the atlantic, sports illustrated, of rolling stone, and i have to mention that wikipedia notes he read the electric kool-aid acid test. >> i was struck as well but not to become a jobless -- journalist. >> t. j. camapana who to my mind is as close as you can get to the digital sherlock holmes. he

mr. bowden spoke for a little over an hour of the computer history museum in mountain view california. [applause] >> good evening everyone. we are going to do this in several parts. a very brief introduction, and then mark is going to talk and a brief reading and then we are going to have a q&a. and then i think cards are going to come up and we will try to make this as inclusive as possible. for the discussion tonight, mark bowden as a journalist to of course you probably all know is the author also of black hawk down and the basis for the movie directed by ridley scott. mark was a journalist first 1979 to 2003. he was of the philadelphia inquirer and for three seasons he covered football, is the right? >> that's right. islamic he's written for the new yorker, the atlantic, sports illustrated, of rolling stone, and i have to mention that wikipedia notes he read the electric kool-aid acid test. >> i was struck as well but not to become a jobless -- journalist. >> t. j. camapana who to my mind is as close as you can get to the digital sherlock holmes. he's also the senior manager for th