One digital luxury I love unconditionally is wireless audio. It has its hiccups but in a controlled environment like one’s home, it’s a blessing. Over the years I’ve acquired one expensive wireless speaker after another, and finally in ‘23 I achieved total sonic saturation of my apartment, room by room. I have not handled an aux cord in recent memory. Today’s little vector doodle goes out to all my OG Homepod Owners out there — the true believers who heard the first run was being discontinued and ran to the store to buy another.

As a consumer of products in a material world, it opened my mind to learn that the Harley Owners Group was created in-house by Harley-Davidson, right around the same time Steve Jobs was parking his BMW motorcycle in the lobby in Cupertino. It’s not really a gotcha, it doesn’t really prove anything in particular. But it’s a great example of how “Classic Americana” is largely lab-grown, just like the hats you & I choose to wear. When authenticity is in woefully short supply, you might as well splurge for the fanciest fake.

Work continues on ansel.tv. The responsive mobile layout is (mostly) working and a number of graphic design pieces have fallen into place during the hammering of the HTML, CSS, and now once again Javascript. There are still vectors to bend and words to write but we are getting there. I’m working harder than I ever have in my life.

Big letter mode. Be ready. —A∙