Obligatory Toddler-In-Bathtub Pic
March 4th, 2010Sean And Dizzy, Finally Becoming Buddies
February 14th, 2010So Kayleigh and I were watching a video this afternoon. At some point I realized Sean had wandered off into the kitchen and was being surprisingly quiet. I walked in and found him there, gently petting Dizzy – and for the first time ever, Dizzy seemed to be enjoying it:
Finally Switching to Wordpress
February 11th, 2010Thanks to the good folks at iBiblio, I’ve switched my blog from Movable Type to Wordpress. My MT database had been having problems for many months, which is why I haven’t been posting very often. We’re still working out some of the kinks, but hopefully the blog will be stable fairly soon.
Kayleigh the Human Bubble Machine
January 18th, 2010
Giving Thanks
November 21st, 2009
A soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan, one of several rehabbing at
Walter Reed that we saw at the Silver Spring Thanksgiving Parade
today. His mom says he expects to have another year of rehab before
he gets to go home.
RIP, Jeanne-Claude: May the Pearly Gates be wrapped for you
November 19th, 2009
clouds and concrete
November 3rd, 2009
That Photo Sure Makes Your Email Scam More Believable
October 26th, 2009
I just got this email in my in box. It’s obvious scam mail, of course, but I love how they’ve added a stock photo of global office workers to make it more convincing that a "British finance security company" needs my assistance in processing $35.5 million.
The Vasa
September 22nd, 2009
Video I shot today of the Swedish royal ship Vasa, which sunk off Stockholm during its maiden voyage in 1628. It was salvaged in 1961 and was processed for years using water and preservative chemicals until it was given a new home at Stockholm’s Vasa Museum. It’s the best preserved 17th century ships in the world, and one of my all-time favorite museums.
Did The Twitter Fail Whale Inspire This Children’s Book?
September 14th, 2009
I was at a bookstore in Pittsburgh a few days ago and saw a book called Billy Twitters And His Blue Whale Problem in the children’s section. Given that Twitter shows a picture of a whale being lifted up by birds – The Fail Whale – whenever it crashes, I wonder if this book was inspired by that art. The book was published in June 2009, well after the Fail Whale was well established as an Internet meme. Anyone got the scoop on this one? Alas, I was too busy chasing Kayleigh up and down the aisles to get her to sit down and read it with me. 