• Car Talk

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    14 Feb 2009 /  Uncategorized

    Why is it that, in all the years I’ve heard Car Talk on the radio, I’ve never heard anyone take a cellphone out to the car and have the car make the real noise?

    While we’re at it, why is it that mail clients don’t recognize when you are replying to yourself? Probably 30% of emails I write are follow-ons to emails I’ve already written (because I’ve remembered something else I wanted to say)–from a formatting perspective they are replies, but the To: field should be the same as the To: field of the email you’re replying to.

  • Peeks

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    14 Feb 2009 /  Uncategorized

    No particular inspiration: when I see an ‘excavator’ (as Eli identified it immediately), I always take a mental picture. Something about a big, powerful, diesel-driven piece of machinery all dressed up in happy yellow / orange / green…


    Oops… return of the hydrants.

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    Above: from a quick session on the pier with Mark; and above that, a morning instant in the stairwell at the studio

    More here.