For the ‘this is not going to happen to us, right?’ category, CNN.com reports this morning on a woman who gave birth in her car at a gas station, then went on to drive herself to the hospital. Due to a mixup with the dispatch officers, police pulled the car over and ordered the mother out at gunpoint. When they saw the baby still attached by the umbilical cord, they got her to the hospital. Yikes!
And on a more personal note – no news on Baby Trotz. Today was to be the day, but no activity yet. A big storm blew threw Atlanta this morning, and we hoped that either (a) the powerful thunder brings on labor or (b) the lower atmospheric pressure helps things along. Or we can wait until tomorrow, when Amy’s cousin Miriam was born!
Not too much to report. Amy is doing fine, but baby doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. It’s certainly cramped in there at this point – it’s clear that the baby tries to stretch out and pokes and prods Amy’s belly so hard that you can see/feel a foot/heel at times. We’re getting used to the fact that the baby is going to take its sweet time. My next task is implementing a countup script to replace the countdown clock at the top of the blog tomorrow.
As announced on the Ben Folds mailing list, the Attacked by Plastic website now has samples of all eleven tracks from Ben’s upcoming album, Songs for Silverman. There is also a spiffy custom media player, but that only lets you hear four of the samples. The new disc comes out on April 26th.
The mainstream media rarely dives this far into speculation about our favorite computer manufacturer, so this is something of a treat. Business 2.0 has a long feature story on the past, present and mostly the future of Apple. The story includes a great gallery of conceptual product images produced by design firm Pentagram and a breakdown of how likely they are to exist. This is a must read for all you Mac lovers (and haters).
