i guess a segway could be pretty useful

listening to the steve jobs audio book (steve used to CRY in meetings) and, as of disc 4, the biggest hero is steve wozniak, the engineer who started apple with jobs. here’s woz discussing his visit with kanye west and kim kardashian:

The visit came out of a cold call from an eight-months-pregnant Kardashian, hoping to concoct a birthday surprise for Kanye, a longtime Apple fan boy. Not that Woz—Silicon Valley’s sunniest emeritus figure, a genial geek godfather man-child who rides around Los Gatos, California, waving and grinning on his Segway and makes a point of dining with fans and reading every Facebook message he gets—knew who the tabloid-fixture couple was. “Oh my gosh, I don’t watch TV. I’d never seen her,” says Woz, who, indeed, rode up to meet me on a Segway (and then continued riding past me, grinning and waving, somewhat obliviously).

it seems to love rings

just finished work, blasting ABBA, researching metal detectors. found a metal detector review site (!), amazing reviews:

“This bounty hunter tracker II is great. … So far in about 10 outings I’ve found 2rings one silver one fake ladies diamond ring. One Rosy dime one merc and some wheat pennies and some misc charms and about 15 dollars in clad. It seems to love rings.”

“I find that this detector is very weak, I’m sorry to say. When using it, I’ve found many items but, it passed right over a coin on the ground and did not make much of a sound. It should of went crazy but, didn’t. Luckily I spotted the coin and picked it up.”

“Ace? More like INFERIOR 150
Well I took mine out to the beach and yuck it started to bounce everywhere you know the signals. I then took it out to the park and found nothing but pull tabs and pennies. It doesn’t even discriminate that well. I say try it on your own risk.”

an eerie heading

my mom gave me this book

my philosophy, too

a look from the a détacher 2014 spring line

from an old interview in new york magazine with a détacher designer, mona kowalska:

Kowalska has a few wholesale clients (mostly in Japan), and once in a while Barneys New York will take a look, but she does best with the clients who shop directly from her racks. The collection makes more sense, she says, if you see it as a whole. A quilted, collarless wrap coat without a single built-in closure, for example, might look bizarre outside its milieu, but in the store it was a best-seller. “It’s just never going to be mass,” she says. “It’s easy to get caught up with ambition and plans. But sometimes I just say, ‘What about a small, well-run company? Is that such a terrible thing?’ ”

beauty

callen thompson
courtesy of el cosmico instagram

west texas clouds in houston

a swede in sardegna

from designer a detacher
courtesy of shopbird instagram

hard work lessons

learning hard things about work:

• HAVE BOUNDARIES
• BE PLEASANT BUT FIRM
• NICENESS COUNTS BUT MOSTLY BUSINESS COUNTS
• NO SOFT PERMEABLE BORDERS, ONLY FIRM NO BULLSHIT BORDERS

got a passive aggressive invoice from a contractor friend yesterday, including a narrative that ended with “I personally would have been better off doing regular construction with my time!” [exclamation point his] (for the record, i asked him if he could do the project [two weeks out] and if he couldn’t, i could find someone else.)

i’m starting to think terrible things like “what would a man do in this situation.” would a man bear this behavior. would a man even notice this behavior. would a man notice that jackass exclamation point.

niceness ≠ respect

charlie watts

photo by ethan russell, 1972. gonna learn to channel his equanimity. AND HIS STYLE