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.
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:
It’s official, in fact we’re already halfway there…
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.
The site’s still getting hammered. I’m simplifying and removing SSIs while trying to make sure things still work.
