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So long, and thanks for all the beautiful noise. On the bright side, he’s one with The Force now.

In his honor:

Head on down to the Star Wars official site and take it out for a spin. And yes, someone’s already used it to Rickroll.

Note that there are no reindeer. My guess is that they met the same fate as Luke Skywalker’s tauntaun.

Yes, I’m aware of the sorts of wonderful things you can make with a 3D printer, but at 7:45 a.m. after a good workout, the only 3D printer that matters is my hotel’s 3D pancake printer. I loved it enough to shoot some footage and add an appropriate soundtrack:

About once a week, I work out of a cafe rather than at the home office. As you might already know, coffee is a tricky beast that sends you to the bathroom for a couple of reasons. If you’re at the cafe solo, you’re faced with the question “what can I leave at my table to hold it while I’m in the can?”

I could leave a coat or jacket on the chair, but I’m in Florida, where you often don’t have them handy because you don’t need them. That’s when accordion comes in handy: it marks your spot, and accordion thefts, as the joke goes*, are quite rare.

* The joke goes like this: I parked my car in a rough part of town and left my accordion on the back seat. When I got back, my window was smashed in, and I now had two accordions.