Posted in Misc on Aug 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Every time I read the High School Speech (just below), it makes me get all knotted-up inside. Knotted-up with pride for Ava, with all of her accomplishments, joys, challenges and tenderness. It makes me want to act. It makes me want to blast, at full volume, John Lennon’s “Power to the People!” And dammit, it [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m writing this from the friendly confines of my local Apple store. Yes, I actually live in a town (not city) that also has an Apple store to which I can ride my bike with my family alongside me. The Apple store is a happy little place, filled with gleaming electronica that, like Sean with [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
One of the things I’ve been noticing around home lately is the the singing of all sorts of amazing birds. I rarely see the birds, but their songs are crystal clear in my ears. It’s wonderful to wake up to their singing. And just tonight, one was belting out a tune so clearly that it [...]
Posted in Misc, Stuff on May 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I have found myself relating to Grand Theft Auto IV in much the same way that I used to relate to The Sopranos. That is to say, I’m looking forward to the next installment. GTA4 is the first video game that really pulls off the video-game-as-serial plot. At least for me. Not that other games [...]
Posted in Misc on Jun 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
The docs are signed, the money is transferred, and the county has been notified. It’s official. We’re massively in debt. Good God, I hope the golden California sun continues to shine on the Silicon Valley home market. Financial panic aside (everyone around here assures me that it will subside into a dull worry that can [...]
Posted in Family, Misc on Apr 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
We’ve been in California for 6 weeks already now. Not a post in sight all that time, so here I go: It’s really pretty here. Whenever we walk to the park, down the block, to the store or library, we get to enjoy enormous trees, lush plants, oodles of flowers (the roses are enormous here!), [...]
Posted in Misc, Stuff on Sep 25th, 2006 2 Comments »
Last weekend Amy and I began to notice that our Wi-Fi wireless network was beginning to get flaky. Sometimes we wouldn’t be able to connect with our laptops at all. Other times we would get a horribly slow connection. Still other times we would get an excellent connection only to watch it deteriorate a few [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 18th, 2006 No Comments »
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, [...]
Posted in Family, Misc on Sep 2nd, 2006 1 Comment »
The bloom is off the Star Wars rose, at least for now. Reid’s new favorite movie is Yellow Submarine. And I think that’s pretty cool.
Posted in Misc, Stuff, Thoughts on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Holy cow. This is fairly mind expanding. Fantastic news. From Scientific American, Today. – SCIENCE NEWS August 22, 2006 Colliding Clusters Shed Light on Dark Matter E-mail Print Link RSS del.icio.us Digg Image: NASA Click here to see movie For more than 70 years, astronomers, cosmologists and physicists have known that ordinary matter must be [...]