the things we think but do not say

I live a fairly modern life and I rely on the structural integrity of hundreds of devices to make my day go straight. In fact my digital life is so pervasive, when I read a headline on the BBC news website, “Amazon shrinking at 25% in a year” I immediately thought that the stock price of the online retailer was down. How sad.

But the one thing that I rely on, the thing that’s now more vaulable than almost any other object, is my hard drive. It’s got all my photos, all my music, tons of my work it’s all taken years of careful curation/creation.

And so my ‘deep in the back of my head’ worry is that one day my drive will just spontaneously and castrophically die. And I’ll be totally screwed.

So I finally bought a back up drive to my main back up drive. A second level of redundency as it were. And what’s the only hard drive out there? Why the Lacie Brick drives, designed by Ora Ito, of course.

250Gb for under $150. Sweet.

Is there anything in your life that if you could keep a perfect back up of, you would?

After a long week and a half in Palo Alto/San Francisco (where the weather was crap incidentally) I’m home and back in full effect.

Flying over Chicago’s city grid lines on Friday night reminded me how much I love this city. From the neighborhoods, to the afforable housing (a very relative term), to my friends and my work, it’s the place I call home and it’s also the longest place I’ve lived in the since I left my mum’s house.

And yes. The weather can be cold as a mofo. But the summer makes up for it as the city comes to life like no other place I’ve ever seen. Strangley, when I lived in London, I used to say the same thing: “If only the weather was a little better, then this place would be be best place in the world…”

I think that New York might now be the only place that’ll make me leave this town…

If you love Chicago, leave a comment and let me know why.