“…hoping to get a feel for something you simply can’t portray: personal experience. This is not the way to do it. You’ll find that you can never be satisfied with anything if you know everything about it. Sometimes the joy you get out of a product is in the serendipity of finding a delicious little gem of a feature that you had no idea existed.” - jeffrock.com  talking about consumer product reviews. However if you expand this idea, it’s exactly the reason why I never, ever read album reviews.

Real estate near the tracks is maybe not prime. The further north you go the more big giant awnings you see on houses- I like that. Converting rundown indutrial space into swanky lofts isn’t as widespread as you might think. They could have put the southbound tracks over a foot or two.

Amtrak. The seats are huge, it’s quiet and each seat has an outlet so you plug in your floorlamp or toaster or whatever. And no one even tried to find my shoe bomb.

At amtrak way too early

marco:

Logitech now tapes this little note inside the MX Revolution’s packaging. So many people (myself included, twice — I own two) were having trouble getting the mouse out of the clamshell that Logitech had to do something.

And rather than redesign the packaging to be usable, they stuck these little notes in there instead. It’s as much of a “solution” as Microsoft’s amazing “Did you notice the Information Bar?” dialog.

I distinctly remember staring at the clamshell, trying to figure out how to extract the mouse cleanly. It cost enough, I didn’t want to break the damn thing.

“People who use IE6 shouldn’t be allowed to use the internet. There I said it.” - jeremywatt

[sigh] One of those days.