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September 29, 2004

Peeping tom

Last night I went to the Gap, and tried on a wonderfully fitting pair of corduroy pants in a rich dark brown. (“Pioneer brown,” to be exact, according to their website.) I didn’t quite notice the larger-than-life-size ad posted on the inside of the fitting-room door until I put on the pants and looked in the mirror, only to have Tom Brady staring over my shoulder. Scared me half to death. Well, in a pleasantly surprising kind of way. How you doin’?

(Hm, I just found out that Brady is fellow Bay Area folk. He’s from San Mateo, and went to Serra High School.)

Back to the shopping, last week I bought a case for my iPod at the Gap, not really the first place I would think to find one. It’s a generic mp3 player case, so it doesn’t fit the iPod exactly, but hey, it was marked down to $3.99, so it’ll do for now. By the way, check out these high-end cases. Definitely over the top, but to put them in perspective, they still cost less than the iPod itself.

Pilot porno

From Patrick Smith’s latest “Ask the pilot” column in Salon:

To this day my favorite part of any airline timetable or in-flight magazine is the route map. Next time you fly, check out the back pages of the seat-pocket magazine. I could spend 90 minutes immersed in a kind of pilot porno, studying those three-panel foldouts and their exploding nests of arcs and lines.

So true.