Making stuff as a founder of Avocado. Former music-maker. Tuna melt advocate. Started Google Reader. (But smarter people made it great.)

I hear the Pixies' "Alec Eiffel" and think of Kamen.

Today's song quote is dedicated to Kamen's Segway, an apparent technological marvel:

Little Eiffel stands in the archway.
Keeping low doesn't make sense.
Keeping low doesn't make no. Sense!

I dunno, sometimes I build the house in order to marvel at the arc of the hammer. :) And not just because it's a niche play in an attractive market with specific commercial applicability that keeps your profit margin above 3% with an annual growth rate of 1.7% over a period of five quarters.

When are we joyful in creation for its own sake? Only when it grosses 120 million on its opening weekend?

Why piss on a fancy? A dream of the impossible and impractical is a little thing, as little as death; and such a trifle made material being a joyful event to me, I'm sympathetically inclined towards this Scooter of Limited Practical Use.

Of course "limited" is a subjective description, especially considering the potential of the technology behind the Segway's power management and tilt sensors.

It doesn't make no sense. And I would love to ride one.

Posted at December 3, 2001 03:23 AM
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