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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” […]

Having recently mastered walking, Jonah is wasting no time.  He is climbing up on things like a Tibetan mountaineer.  A Sherpa with a penchant for Tonka trucks, you might say. And here he is, resting from his climb.  This is what he looks like when he tries to say “Cheese” (a word he picked up from […]