Stephen Mejias

WIRED offers their list of "Best Gadgets and Gizmos on the Planet" in their annual TEST issue, on stands now. But I didn't buy it. Instead, I swiped my girlfriend's copy. While she was mostly interested in reading more great things about her handy-dandy Motorola Q, I, of course, flipped right to the home audio section.

In my e-mail inbox, I saw a new item: "FedEx Shipment Notification."


Spam? I wondered.

Last night, audiophile Al Marcy — oh, hell-kite! — did an incredible thing. He, with one swift comment, responded to every single blog entry I've ever posted:

It's kind of crazy. I go to bed each night with a little bit of worry over the words I've let loose. Nouns and verbs and other linking bits, forming ideas and images meant to be pretty, meant to be funny, meant to be interesting. These words are linked to me, just as my name is linked to Stereophile, and it all comes with