nothing really exciting happened today except some work stuff and i am trying to stay away from the scintillating topic in this blog.

on most sidewalks there are these knobs on the ground. They usually run in a line along the sidewalk. i have been wondering what they are for a while and when i was in Shanghai i saw them yet again so i asked holly what they were for. Blind people it seems. It is a pretty good idea and them seem to be all over the place in China's two biggest cities so i imagine they are used in the rest of the cities.

they cover most of the areas you would want to go to and seem to prevent you from falling off the subway platform.

the most exciting thing that happened to me today was my kitchen discovery. i usually just grab water or tea from the water cooler near my desk but today i wanted to walk around a bit so i went into the kitchen to get water. To my utter amazement i found a coffee machine that made hot chocolate at the press of a button. Talk about heaven. i drank around 11 cups of hot chocolate over the rest of the day. The machine also makes a mean mocha and lots of other stuff that i did not try. i have not been eating many sweets so my sweet tooth is back in force.

this car was outside my office today. If you look at the sign on the door it says fun car club. i think that is the best way to describe this car. i mean Oakland a's seat covers and a snoopy headrest cover. i wanted to start dancing like it was an ipod commercial around the car. It also was made much more fun because it was just a normal compact sedan if you removed the fun accoutrement. are there even a's fans in the us?

music recommendation, cujo - adventures in foam - ninebar. amon tobin's first record made when he was like 2. It is not as dark as the work under his real name. Jazz as you have never heard it before. He takes a lot of art blakey samples and warps them in ways that make your ears bend.