Other women reminisce about first dates. I get the same dreamy smile when I think of my first Nakaya. I was in Singapore for a creative workshop. I stole time to pass by Aesthetic Bay. The Piccolo Shu Chinkoku refused to let me leave without it. The housoge design, black on red, is to the …
Imagine me, a woman of thirty, trying to grab a rooster by the tail in my grandaunt’s backyard. I didn’t succeed, but my huffing and flailing amused my family. After a good time was had by all, my uncle handed me a tailfeather he picked up. Here, he said, I don’t know what you want …
You might notice new categories on the left. They’re not really new. They’re from my old blog, which I created using iBlog. I’m finally making good on my three month-old promise to transfer those entries to this blog. This process is like me saying, “Come in,” to carpal tunnel syndrome and making it some tea. …
I ask too much, I know. I want this headset to seamlessly switch between the Mac and the N82. That requires an operating system, not a sensor. A kink that had me shaking my head this morning: the Mac couldn’t find the BH-503. I turned the headset off and on, made sure it was charged, …
When I’m in a hurry, I abandon cursive. Goodbye loops, goodbye shading, goodbye thick and thin lines that swoop and scroll into descenders, ascenders and pretenders in between. My G looks like a 6, my R can’t be bothered to close its loop like a lady. Slow writing isn’t necessarily slow thinking. Sometimes the words …
If a haiku were reincarnated as a pen, it would be the Nakaya Piccolo. The seminal Nakaya pen has to be the Piccolo in the kuro-tamenuri (blackish red) finish. It is a triumph of aesthetic restraint. It was the first Nakaya I liked, but the one I never bought, until last weekend. The shape, size …
Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago” is the kind of album that enters your temples and seeps down your arteries and spreads down your spine and slices through and out with bloodied wings. I have been a fan of the Takeaway Shows since last year. Bon Iver in a Montmartre apartment doing Flume – what …
My first thought was oh, so that’s what A2DP is for. The BH-503 version I have is black with red accents. It matches my N82, but I didn’t think of that when I bought it. I wanted a Bluetooth stereo headset primarily for music, secondarily for calls. The majority of headsets in the market have …
Near the end of a particularly vicious week, I received a message from Jenny. She said her daughter was dropping off a surprise for me at the office, and it had an “outside and an inside.” What a surprise it was. I had to leave for a meeting, and opened the box when I returned …
In all the fuss about Google Chrome, and IE 8 the Advertiser Freakout, I almost missed the Flock 2.0 beta release. The tabs look more more raised, text rendering is looser, there’s still no way to refresh the People sidebar (whose top bar now sports an underwhelming beige background). If you’re a feeder, you’ll like …