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Never buy one of anything . That's advice you should stand by when you're buying unusual gadgets. The advice was good when Randy Pausch offered it to me some 15 years ago, and it's still good now. Of course, with 18 month old twin girls at home, this has become second nature to me. Two boxes...

I spent the weekend at Snoqualmie pass. Winter has certainly not yet relinquished its grip on the Cascade Crest. Here's some of the sights done AlpineInker style. - Here's a car that someone left parked for the winter. That probably wasn't a good idea. It's been crushed like an empty can of cheap beer...

I just received an OQO-style moleskine in the mail! When I opened it up, it was full of arcane tricks for using InkSeine's Tool Ring as a flick pad. This topic has come up before but now it seems that perfect combination of custom flicks has been discovered. This is the new set of Flick gestures...

The OQO Model 02 is almost the same size as my Moleskine Pocket Sketchbook. I suspect this is no accident. To illustrate the point, I scanned them side-by-side. The OQO is slightly narrower, which is necessary to make it fit in my shirt pocket given its 1" girth. By the way, don't let this scan...