Monthly Archives: January 2009

Yesterday, as we were organizing our study closet, I went through a stack of Guitar World magazines from 1998-2000.  In the Feb. ’99 issue, there’s an article about Frank Zappa that I still remember and think about 10 years later, so I re-read it. A thing that amazed me was Steve Vai’s story of auditioning […]

Jonah got his first haircut yesterday!  Here’s the story we will tell our children and grandchildren (scroll down for the historically accurate account): The whole thing went very smoothly.  We showed up at the salon, went right back to the chair, snip-snip-snip, and we were out of there.  Jonah was so excited, and he sat […]

Yesterday, Kaeta came to me and said, “Daddy, where’s the Dragon Book?” I had no idea what book she was talking about. But I had just ordered a book about compilers that is commonly referred to as “the dragon book,” because the cover shows a knight sitting at a computer, fighting off a dragon labeled […]

Lately I’ve been going to amazon.com/mp3 to see what their Mp3 Daily Deal is. It’s usually an entire album for $1.99, which is hard to turn down! Today I clicked their header, which says “2009: Resolve to ROCK.”  Here are the ROCKin’ music categories that came up: Alternative and Indie Rock — okay. But Christian […]

For 2008, I gave up drinking cokes.  (Side note: In Texas, “coke” = any kind of soda.)  With a few exceptions, I stuck to that all year. So far, I’ve had 2 sodas in 2009.  First, I drank a 20 oz. Dr. Pepper a couple of weeks ago, and pretty soon after that my heart […]

What do you call a Centaur with the head of a horse and the body of a man? Wikipedia, you’re failing me!

I made this handy comparison chart: It’s pretty obvious, really.

The latest (Jan/Feb 2009) issue of Inc. magazine has a profile on Markus Frind, the creator of the dating website called Plenty of Fish. I thought this was really funny: “With friends and family, Frind expresses affection through playful pranks. One memorable valentine involved the secret consumption of a massive quantity of hot peppers. Though […]

Just for fun, here’s a graphic of words used on this page (ignoring really common words), sized by how frequently they appear. It was really easy to make, using a tool called Wordle! I’m not sure what it means that “Karianne” and “ukulele” are about the same size. Update: K noticed that the word “Jonah” […]