• Coffee. Saturday morning. Lovely. #
• Maple: “Maple syrup is an expert of making things good.” #
• Maple: “If you don’t have any big monies, only small monies, then you have to work in the coal mines to get big monies.” #
• Maple: “I need money in my hands to go shopping. I need to feel a lot of money in there. So I have to work in the coal mines all weekend.” #

• @extraspecial Mighty Mouse SUX, d00d. It’s great for about the first month, then the little spinny thing stops working. #
• Thinking of going for the unlock/upgrade to iPhone 2.0. Dare I? #
• Decisions, decisions…. #

Brick Lounge, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets, London

• Did the transition to Mobile Me actually fix .Mac? So far, my sync stuff has been, um, working. That seems unpossible. #
• Just did the iPhone commute movie thing with The Big Lebowski for the second time in as many months. Damn, what a great flick. #
• @truk77 The first time I ever watched it, I was bored. #
• Remember the lesson of the Big Lebowski: “The Dude abides.” #

• What’s up with the whole “jogging with a backpack on” that, literally, every jogger in London is doing these days? #
• Finally back at home in Vienna. London was a blast, but it feels great to be at Spidesee Konkajoonee (Maple’s name for our pad). #

• @extraspecial Transit is a bit of a mess. Lines down a lot and busses are stuck in traffic. Plus: no elevators/escalators for strollers! #
• Getting a late start to our London day. I don’t need to work today or tomorrow, so it’s family vacation London style starting now. #
• Burrough Market was kick ass. The products were all basically the top end, the people were nice. Yuppie Heaven and not that expensive. #

• Serendipity today. http://bit.ly/SyUzO #
• @fredwilson Welcome to London! We have yet to have a smooth public transport journey. However, the town is kick effin a! #
• Just ate more lunch than a reasonable human should. But the “mature” cheddar was so freaking good! #
• Work for the week is over. Time to party! #
• Maple: “I’m going to name my youngest daughter Patsy Cline and my oldest daughter Cline Patsy. Is that just the silliest thing ever?” #
• So far, if it were a contest, Vienna would be winning for transit and beer, but London would be crushing in almost everything else. #
• Also, in the contest of which city could bankrupt me quicker, London takes the game no contest. This town is expensive for real. #
• Just ate the best ice cream I’ve had since leaving Portland (with 1 exception in Venice). OMG! REAL pistacio ice cream. Watermelon 4 Mapes #

Just posting a weird coincidental occurance.

I was in Hyde Park with my family, when my wife mentioned that old game show “Child’s Play.” For those who don’t remember, the premise was that a child would describe something (on video), and the adults would try to guess and, by doing so successfully, somehow win the game.

There was this cute know-it-all type kid on the show named Sascha Segan. I was thinking about him and thought, “I should Google him when I get home.”

Of course I forgot. But I didn’t forget to read my daily Daring Fireball and, specifically, this article in which Gruber references an article by Sascha Segan who, it turns out, is the Sascha Segan I remembered.

Weird.

• Why is the Sonic Youth “Goo” T-shirt everywhere in London. Was it on TV or something? #
• @fredwilson Ha! Maybe I’ll bump into you—in London all week. BTW, would be curious what you think; feels like the capital of the world. #
• Maybe going to Doctor Johnson’s House at lunch. http://bit.ly/3KQzVV Dude was such a badass; he wrote the first English dictionary. #
• Lunch with Doctor Johson: http://bit.ly/3tJ2qy #

• I’m up at it’s GMT! Oh, London, why must I work now and be away from you for 8 hours? #
• Huge London day yesterday in… Hackney. Also, Spitalfields, etc. What a cool area of town these days—20 years ago: much different! #
• Also: I’ve never seen more diversity in humanity than in the several blocks around Brick Lane in London on a Sunday. Fascinating. #
• Training on Threadneedle Street, City of London. #
• My family was treated to a roadside hershey squirt from a drunken man yesterday. Niiiiiice1. #
• @JohnKenn We did use Heathrow Express. Paddington was not being serviced by 2 lines, then alternate route line broke down. #
• I’ve had 4 shots of espresso so far today. That’s a single serving for @seanbonner, but it’s a lot for us mere mortals. #
• is London a fantasy park purely for the affluent? Shit is teuer. #

• @textism So true. Wasn’t a standing army on Earth that could have lasted against the Wehrmacht at that time. Peeps just don’t realize… #
• So, how long does it take to get from Heathrow to The City. Well, for us, with not one, but two closed underground lines: 3 hours. #

• So I am guessing somewhere in Vienna people can get iPhone 3G today? I’m waiting for work-supplied one, but would be interested 2 see hype. #
• Getting super stoked for London. #
• wow. British Bookshop in 1010 Wien is totally barren. Collapse is imminent, methinks. #

• So what is the deal with me.com and .mac? They’re both unavailable. Is this planned or did the migration fart? #
• Right on! MB on Obama’s spine: #
• Right on: MB on Obama’s spine: http://tinyurl.com/56k8xr #
• Thank you Senator Clinton for having the ovum to vote against FISA! #
• Well, I can’t seem to get a single .mac or mobile me resource here in Austria. What Up? #
• How to get the app store even if you don’t have beta 2: find a web page link to an app in the store, then clicky clicky. #
• For example, i clicked on the link to ConnectedFlow’s exposure, and now I’m in app store. (Must have latest iTunes, too). #
• Pain: receiving and then paying a five figure monthly Amex bill. #
• So. What is this rumored me.com? Is Apple’s strategy to have .Mac down for 24 hours but never launch Mobile Me? #
• Maple, when we started playing “kitchen”: first we have to run the pipes and make the taps for our sink. #
• Wow. I’m certain that iCal is the worst interface I have ever encountered on a Mac. I mean, how the hell does one work this thing? #