Currently playing song: "Outta Mind (Outta Sight)" by Wilco on Being There (Disc Two).

A moment of silence for the late great Suck, winner of the "Gone but Not Forgotten" category of the Scripting News Awards. I can only imagine what they would have had to say about me and my fellow bloggers. "As self indulgent would-be Boswells take to writing about their own Johnsons, the odd corners of the Internet are filling with copious blog droppings." Anyone wanna collaborate on a Suck pastiche?

Today's update features Joseph Cornell and words as art, plus your narrator's realization that he's not up for all day museum marathons any more.

Today is museum day. Unfortunately, the American Art Museum is still closed, so I can't go in search of Joseph Cornell there -- but I can at least revisit "Medici Prince" in the National Gallery. My plan is to go until I drop.

Okay, so my arms have mostly recovered from yesterday's marathon blog. I'm still thinking about the new iMac, and my conclusion is that they've done a fine job of hitting their target market. Not power users, not Linux guys, but the many more people who need a computer to help them get things done. Regarding appearance, it is, as Seal said, very 2001: A Space Odyssey. I also like what "Doc" wrote yesterday from the convention floor: "What seemed to have everyone most fascinated afterwards at the press 'viewing' was the shiny metal arm that connects the base to the monitor. It looks like a chrome dildo..."

(I asked Tim at our family reunion on Saturday if he intended to do any blogging while on the road. "Maybe a little," he said. I'd like to draw derisive attention to the "little" that takes up the rest of this page. Geeze Louise.)

Sad news today, folks: Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's, has died. Hats off and a moment of silence for the creator of the Spicy Chicken Sandwich.