next-gen Acela arriving at 30th st station in Philadelphia I'm on my way to Connecticut to visit my cousin Finn at Wesleyan (my alma mater) for Family Weekend and decided to splurge on the new next gen acela because I wanted to experience a high tech French-made train running on the northeast corridor. I know how bougie and entitled this sounds, but these days I experience train travel more internationally than I do domestically. I wanted to see if this train would have some

I came to visit my family in Philly today and today's outings included a visit to the new Calder Gardens , dedicated to the greatest hanging mobile sculptor of all time and the new Jordan Store , dedicated to the greatest basketball player of all time. Both were artists who worked in space and time, and I visited these temples to their achievements back to back with my parents. Here's a little video comparison of the two spaces:

I've loved taking photos since I was a kid and my grandfather Harold gave me a tiny "spy camera" from Sharper Image (was going to say RIP, but it looks like it's still around). I'm not sure if it was actually this mini-shot, but it was something similar, and I loved that I could keep it in my pocket. I also loved that 110 film was so easy to load , I was not then, nor am I now what you might call a "technically adept" person or someone you'd describe as "good with his hands.