Really great design

well, anything Apple makes is both well designed and functional from the Mac pro to the iphone and i touch. But there are other companies that also do well and I just learned about Keurig yesterday. It's the new coffee machine in the office which uses those individual coffee portions and is amazing. The old ones used to have unstable cloth pouches but these little cups of coffee are efficient, fast and the coffee or it could be tea or hot chocolate is good.

Kate wants to be a desginer or an architect and I hope that she will always remember the design genius of Dyson with his vacuum cleaner and hand dryer. Beautiful with good functionality. If she does go to Brooklyn Tech then she may have a really good shot at this kind of career. We went last night for the open house for kids who have been admitted. The school has 5,200 students who go to high school in the largest high school in the United States. The open house was organized chaos and had no relationship to the polite, well organized school functions at Friends or Spence or anyplace that I know anything about. First of all the school is in Brooklyn and I always have meltdown going into Brooklyn and Wednesday was no different. Got out in a neighborhood that I didn't recognize but decided to follow a mother daughter duo that I decided were also going to Bklyn Tech. Lucky for us it was a correct supposition and we arrived along with 1,500 students and their parents. It was crazy and chaotic and Kate loved it. I have to keep reminding myself that I am not the one going to High School she is but how she got so old so quickly is still a mystery to me. And this high school sounds more like college to me. I worry because she is so used to Friends where they know when she has "forgotten" to produce home work assignments. In this place they won't notice anything until they give her a bad grade.

I just read in the Times that there are 80,000 kids who will be entering High School this fall. And Kate.