When did I become Clark Griswold? This thought occurs to me yesterday, standing on a ladder while David sorts little plastic clips from a bag on the ground and passes batches of them up to me so I can attach these little white lights to the roofline of the house. David is having a great [...]
Just finished Francis S. Collins’ book The Language of God. Collins is a medical geneticist and was the head of the Human Genome Project. The book tackles Collins’ move from atheism to theism, and his reconciliation and harmonization of science and faith. Of particular note is his defense of the harmonization of the theory of [...]
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A while back I wrote about discovering Duraflame (and its ilk) and how maybe I wasn’t really a wood heat sort of guy after all, and how maybe all I cared about from the fireplace was a little ambiance, and how the wax-candle versions of logs with their easy lighting and no fuss were the [...]
A vacation day. Full eight hours sleep last night. Reading stories with the kids after oatmeal this morning. Coffee with Kris. A long, easily-paced run through the city on a warm, gray November day. A hot shower. Nice.
Just a little note for the search engines in hopes of providing an easy solution to this little puzzle: Want to get a .wav file onto your Fostex MR-8 without a lot of hassle? Download the WAVManager program from the Fostex Web site. Does it automatically. You may need to update your MR-8 software to [...]
You love each kid so much you wonder how you could have any more room in your heart (or your head, or you calendar!) for the next one. Then you hear a heartbeat, get a glimpse, and you’re smitten all over again — without ever having gotten over being smitten with the other ones!
I love this phrase, compounded from expressions in this review, by David Margolick, tackling David Mamet’s new book, The Wicked Son. Margolick points out how in the book, Mamet skewers the idea that the rejection of tradition somehow means freedom from the needs that the tradition was created to fill: "[Politically progressive and religiously observant [...]
Too much Halloween fun! Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden. I’d seen a bunch of these “sick pumpkin” images floating around the Web, and really wanted one for a project I was working on. So I made my own. My take on it differs from others in that it begins with a carved pumpkin [...]
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