Finally got to see a Mac mini in person tonight after speaking at the Apple Store soho. Even cooler than I was expecting. The real charm of that little computer is that it feels almost disposable. Not in a wasteful way, in a “pull it out of the box and take a drill to it without remorse” kind of way.

In a few months we should start seeing some really cool hacks built around these things. The trick is going to be finding and interfacing affordable USB sensors and servos.

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do

Once you find them

— Jim Croce

“The great correcting mechanism for people on the Web is people on the Web.”

— Peggy Noonan on blogging in the Wall Street Journal

The Flange Effect may be the most clichéd musical element of our generation.

Finally signed up for Flickr, thoughts on that later, hopefully I’ll be uploading some images from the gates later today directly from my phone.

It’s a good idea to bring matches or a lighter to birthday parties. Fire seems to be the thing most often forgotten.

Sometime late last year while braving a torrential rainstorm on our way to a weekend morning playdate, we arrived at the First Ave L-Train station shortly after a large section of wall had collapsed onto the Brooklyn bound tracks. By the look of things, water had been seeping behind the wall for some time and finally pushed it’s way through. I took a picture with my phone and didn’t think much about it again.

I stumbled across that image last night while cleaning out some old files. There was no date. After a lot of Google searching, it seems that no one ever posted anything about this, no news, no blogs, no MTA advisory.

Based on the poster for Lost, I’m guessing the wall fell sometime between August and October of 2004. If you saw it and know the date, let me know.