In the early 90s, AT&T ran a series of commercials that posed some futuristic, technologically enabled task (e.g., “Have you ever borrowed a book from thousands of miles away?”), and then answered it emphatically (”You will.”), claiming they’d be the company to technologically enable such a task. I believe they’ve all come to pass except one. As Stewart Brand once said, “Technology marches on, over you or through you, take your pick.”

I can’t help but think that many of the technological advances we debate and marvel about were downright inevitable. …

Mullins sent along a link to this one:

We like it.

Since my returning to Austin and immediate move are over, I’m back on my BMX chrome build (it’s a Dyno frame from 89 or 90). I thought I was going to run these old GT Framestanders, which I bought when they came out in 1984, but it turns out that they’re more in the way than anything, so… Here, I took some pictures before I took them off.

Sexy…