August 28, 2011 The majestic island of Manhattan, no longer visible in the storm, is consumed, say the Brooklyn hipster meteorologists, by wind and rain and the wraith of non-denominational gods drunk on cheap PBR and expensive whiskey. We pray the neighbors’ swimming pool will…

Late October, 2009 I was chatting with this giant pincushion - and he was pissed. I’ve never met a pincushion that pissed off before… and I feel his pain. Quotes from memory: “I gotta take a leak … but I gotta find a god damned…

I wrote this on July 29, 2001 in response to a pre-IoT article about connected “smart” appliances from IBM’s lab. I guess we were a little bit ahead of the times at the Media Lab cuz the nuisance bit of this anticipated future is only…