Kris pointed this video out to me tonight. "I defy you to click away once it starts." she said, concurring with the blog author who’d first pointed her to the magnum opus. She was right. Amazing. I think the corny blue screen work, especially the bit in the Eskimo outfit with the big fish, is […]
NashuaTelegraph.com Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden. The company holds a quarterly meet and greet for new employees — I count as one, though as a returning (recycled?) staffer, I’m also an old employee. Here I am with my new employee gift — a travel mug with the Web URL on it. Cool! Telegraph […]
DAVID (riding his bike in a circuit from the living room to the dining room and back again): It’s going to be bigger than you, daddy. DADDY: What’s that? What’s going to be bigger? DAVID: My crab, when I put him in water. Thanks, Hot-Chocolate Man, for sending the toys that grow when you soak […]
Here’s one of the features I’ve added especially for the Area 603 project — the system will automatically pull the user photo of any blogger who has submitted one (and we’ll try to make sure everyone has one!). This will be important, since we hope to get a lot of people involved in this, and […]
There are so many interesting psychological tidbits in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink that you’d have to rewrite the book to get them all into a summary. The gist is: how do human beings make snap decisions, and why are snap decisions so often correct. It’s all fascinating, but one aspect of his multifaceted examination of the […]
The Finished Christmas Picture Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden. The trick about taking a decent posed picture of two kids is that it takes a long time to get them both not making a face, but the longer time one takes, the less likely you are to get either one of them to […]
No, seriously. After 10 years in mellow acoustic land, I’m back on an electric guitar — Kris got me a lovely black Epiphone Dot Studio for Christmas and it’s like I never stopped playing (well, except for how much slower my fingers seem when I command them to shred…). I’ve been hinting about wanting to […]