I guess I’m in a Do-It-Yourself kind of mood…

ReadyMade Magazine, $14 for a year subscription in the US. Based solely on the strength of the current Table of Contents, I signed up. I hope it doesn’t suck.

(It doesn’t hurt that the magazine’s name sort of comes from an art history referencing Beck song and this month contains an article by David Berman of the Silver Jews. Besides, I’ve paid more than $14 for one crappy architecture magazine.) found on the never-sucking Dog Door of Death

The Niles Monorail –
People who seem otherwise completely ordinary sometimes do the most extraordinary things. Kim Pedersen built a monorail in his backyard.

(this has been linked all over the place, including metafilter, but I missed it until Bruce emailed the link)

Matthew Bielich
kicks ass. (quicktime, 6.6mb, more info)

My webcam is back up, now looking out over the East Village from nine stories up.

Where the hell have I been?

Well, for starters, Lila Zoe Maller was born March 19 at 3:30am. She and Michelle both doing great. We’re in a new apartment, having moved in one week before Lila was born. My temporary desk is still only partially set up and I still haven’t found all of my reference books. On top of that, my office is under construction. We’ve had a steady stream of guests, which has been wonderful, but I feel like I haven’t gotten any work accomplished in a month.

The trick to getting settled in and back to work after a move has something to do with not having a baby.

I’m also behind on my email, since Lila was born I’ve received over 600 pieces of spam. More and more seems to be evading my spam filters through various misspellings and obnoxious address harvesting letters. I’m doing my best to catch up, if I haven’t replied to your letter, please don’t think I’m ignoring you, there’s a mountain of crap to sort through.

A few observations about baby stuff:

• The diaper Genie is a brilliant hack. I have a pretty clear image in my head of the garage invention that preceded it. My proverbial hat is off to whoever it was who thought this up.
• Baby socks are just insanely cute. Folding them almost makes me giggle. However considering how much laundry we need to do these days, the thrill will likely wear off soon.
• Babies grow fast. It’s only been 2 weeks, but Lila is already substantially larger than when we brought her home.
• Music for Airports is apparently also music for babies.

partially back online…

It’s official, in fact we’re already halfway there…

movin’ on up…

Now all that’s left to do is clean, paint, finish packing, move, have the baby and figure out how to be parents. Oh and squeeze work in there somewhere. After that I can relax.