Aboard a downtown 2 train, I looked up and saw this 8 train across the platform. What the? I had just enough time to snap this picture before we left the station. I shouldn’t have been too surprised, there have been a few 8 lines over the years and the MTA includes an “8” on the roll signs. While this particular sign was an error, there may be 8 trains on the rails in the future.

Recently, I received the renewal notice for vintagesailors.com domain. It is an oft forgotten ecommerce site that sells t-shirts and other goods emblazoned with old sailboat logos. The site’s existence can be chalked up to me wanting a Pearson Ensign t-shirt and not being able to find one I liked.

It wasn’t much of a leap from making one t-shirt to thinking “Hey, I like this, wouldn’t everybody want one?” Of course, everybody absolutely doesn’t want one. But, a few people did, despite an almost total lack of marketing.

I say all of this because I’m going to let the domain expire and I feel like it is worthy of marking the occasion. Plus, there’s still time left to get a hat if you want one!

The jukebox project is coming along. I made some good progress this week on a couple utility type things that make managing the music library much less cumbersome. I also learned a bit more about what it’s going to take to interface with vintage hardware. There’s a short write-up here: Jukebox Title Strips (and more).

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Links

• On Two Years of Retirement
  “Boredom is a champagne problem.”
• Gateway buys boring machines to dig into the Palisades for new Hudson River tunnel
• Gov. Hochul to sign bill allowing medically assisted death in NY
• MI6 Chief: We’ll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian
• Anthropic’s AI Lost Hundreds of Dollars Running a Vending Machine After Being Talked Into Giving Everything Away
  If it can be talked into giving away the house, what’s to stop someone from convincing it to “kill all humans”???
• Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Senses via Note to Self
  “Recently, we’ve been too focused on fitting to the computer’s shape, and not enough to our own bodies.”