“Spark” is here, and it’s three days later, and we’re home now. Cute little boy, Arwen’s blog has the first photo. More updates in a bit, but I’ve gotta make pancakes for Rip and I.
Posted on September 29th 2005 in General
Arwen’s doing really well, and the contractions are around 4-5 minutes apart, 50s+, and are getting pretty intense, all of which is good. Lots of sitting around and reading stupid magazines (People, Cosmo, InTouch, Lifestyle, Walrus, Star, Wired, Geist), and then Arwen going “okay, time” and everyone jumping to their battle stations (me rubbing back and shoulders, Emma helping talk her through the contraction, Grammas being there for emotional support).
Doing well, more reports later.
In the meantime, you can giggle at our friend Sam’s Photoshop silliness:
Posted on September 24th 2005 in General
Arwen went into labour with baby #2 this morning (Saturday) at around 4:30am, and she’s progressing nicely. Further news as events (and Internet access) warrant. We’re hoping that this time it takes a lot less time (was 30+ hours last time), and a lot less back (back labour last time).
Think happy thoughts for us.
Posted on September 24th 2005 in General
Rules:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
Here’s mine:
Posted on September 23rd 2005 in General
Just a bad idea.
I don’t know what sorta rookie would do that, not *ME* of course, but just in case someone out there was thinking about doing it, I’m telling you it’s not a good idea.
I have this… friend who’s now got a 1.0.7 installation that will load up, but won’t LOAD a page, or let me enter an address, or pull down any menus. Safe mode, too. Was playing with extensions, and found that more than half of my faves (especially SAGE, Googlebar, and Sidebar), don’t work under 1.5b.
Poop.
Boy, I sure feel bad for my friend this morning. What a dummy.
Posted on September 23rd 2005 in Hardware
That’s all I have to say about that.
Here’s the MBOverload Pak of Firefox Extensions… Worth it even if only for the Sidebar.
Posted on September 23rd 2005 in Hardware
Notes and photos compiled by a member of the Texas Army National Guard.
The very first photo gives you an idea of what people saw as Katrina headed straight for them..
Click here to see the story and pictures.
via email sent around the office here at work…
Posted on September 16th 2005 in General
Maybe one that’s SILENT.
Researchers recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes
The researchers were able to take several 10-minute sound recordings of users typing at a keyboard, feed the audio into a computer, and use an algorithm to recover up to 96 percent of the characters entered.
Berkeley, you magnificent bastards.
Ever wondered what it’s like to be an ESL teacher/tutor in Vancouver? Who talks about vibrators with people in the UK? With a 4096-bit vocabulary? And belly-dances? While thinking about how to keep little Asian folks from trying to make friends with coyotes?
Wonder no more. Liz has start bloggin’. Go check her out
Posted on September 15th 2005 in General
Linkwhores of the world: Unite!
Jessica Joslin makes things outta stuff.
Google Blog Search seems like a good idea. Of course, regular Google will still find lotsa blogs out there.
Beeping, screaming, mumbling dustbunnies.
Who’s little sticker photo is the most phone-cam-shot person in Japan? Find out.
I want this stupid watch.
Or maybe one of these little bliss bandits.
I can’t be the first on my block to get a Trendwhore Awareness Bracelet, but I might be the second!
Posted on September 14th 2005 in People
