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Just Watched Punch-Drunk Love
Chey and I just finished watching Punch-Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson. In it, Adam Sandler plays an unstable businessman, Barry, who falls in love
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Plug for Mr. Tufte
“One visionary day….the insights of this class lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual displays.”WIRED “The Leonardo da Vinci of data.”THE NEW YORK TIMES Tufte has courses coming up in Dearborn, MI in mid-April. I attended one of his courses in Chicago about a year and a half ago.…
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Where is the teacher of the fish?
I was reading Fox in Socks to Lila and she was counting everything in the book. When she finished counting all the fish on one page, I explained to her that a group of fish is called a “school of fish.” She repeated the phrase. Her eyebrows tightened a little, looking the picture over again.…
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Sounds like Spring
So I was just outside on our porch. The weather is beautiful: sunny and long-sleeve-shirt-warm. I heard two things that made me think of Spring: A moped; a kid who lives around the corner likes to drive his moped down around our cul-de-sac and back up to his house. He was doing that all last…
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Coincidence? I think not.
So I was on the throne reading Information Week magazine yesterday (is that too much information?), and in their page that has little news clips, I noticed two that were not overtly connected, yet made me pause. The first said something about approximately 600 MB of Windows OS source code had been leaked on chatrooms…
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Welcome Chey!
Chey is now set up to add posts to this blog, so you may soon see some Chey commentary here. Keep your eyes peeled!
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Another Eva photo
I’m trying to get back in the swing of updating this blog more often. So, when I’m too tired to think of anything to write about (a cop-out, I know), I’ll try to at least post an image. So, here’s one of Eva looking particularly little.
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Eva, grunting
Okay, so as parents we have to deal with the unpleasantness of our babies’ constipation. This particular episode, though, had our six month old daughter Eva taking on interesting positions. Here is one. Interestingly to me, Eva was being very vocal during this episode. It reminds me of women in labor who are being vocal.…
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What not to do in northern Michigan towns
Last summer a friend and I walked into a bar in Gaylord, Michigan. We wanted to get some lunch, and because it was raining and we were walking, we weren’t took picky. Besides, there was a menu in the window that showed burgers, fries, fish, and some pasta, I think. We had not been to…
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Writing, distraction, writing
So, I’m in the midst of trying to crank out a proposal that is to be in the mail today. I’m making progress, but too slowly. So, Chey told me to turn on some techno music and write to this blog for 5 minutes. So, I am. Any other bloggers out there getting comments that…