It has been such a lovely weekend so far. It seems especially luxurious after having to go to work last Saturday for the big site launch (a roaring success, hooray, and worth a bottle of Veuve Clicquot at the company meeting Friday), and getting Martin Luther King Day off tomorrow will be the icing on […]

Completely awesome, but only in theory, i.e, I wouldn’t want to run into them in real life:

Giant squid (good old architeuthis)
Kraken
Pirates
Ninjas
Sharks
Alligators, crocodiles, caymans
Jellyfish
Bats

Awesome in a purely stylized way:

All of the above, plus:
Birds
Vines, leaves
Fire escapes
Vampires

Awesome in an approachable way:

Dogs
Cats
Toddlers
Guitars
Cupcakes
Robots
Monkeys
Apes
Typewriters

On the way out of the house, I lost my footing on the ice-glazed front steps and fell hard on my back and right wrist. Ow.
In the space of one block near MIT, I saw a dead rat, blood leading from its little head, the wing from a pigeon, which looked as though it had […]

Seth Godin and Scott Berkun.
Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett.
Paul Westerberg and Paul Weller
Anu Garg and Anil Dash.
Graham Nash, Gram Parsons, and Grant Hart.
43 folders and 37signals (I blame the prime numbers)

Our ferry somehow made its way through the opaque fog and pulled up alongside the World Trade Center just before noon. I’m simultaneously happy and disappointed to be home. In hindsight, I’d have tried to persuade the Villain that we really should stay at least a week if we were to have a real vacation. […]