Enough said! (Or, as many of the teens on our Sunday school bus would say, “True that!â€
Isaac is 8 Years Old Today
Isaac turned 8 today. It seems like so little time ago he was born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, delivered 2 months early and at just under three pounds (due to Nichelle developing preeclampsia), after I made the still-talked-about mistake of having her read Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Small Assasin.†I thought she would find it ironic, given the situation. Wrong!
BLOG Updates
The BLOG has gotten a bit older, too. I’ve added a navigation structure (10 entries per page, now), and the masthead.
You think Boston traffic officers are tough?—Try Britain
I once got a parking ticket when the fuel pump died on a car I was using; I managed to coast off I-93 at the Government Center exit, and park behind the first legal parking space on the right. This was way before everyone’s dog had his own cell phone, and I had to leave the car to make phone calls, so I left a note on the dash. I thought about leaving the keys in the car so the traffic officer could verify that it really was a breakdown, but then someone would probably have taken the keys or locked them in the car. Obviously, when I got back to the car, it had been ticketed. Next time I’ll just cause a massive traffic jam.
Out of the Mouth of Babes
As we reflected on the day we set aside to celebrate the Resurrection, Nichelle asked David (age 4) what he had learned in Sunday school. He talked about Jesus being buried described the tomb, and said, “Then Jesus used His ‘rise up power.’”
I don’t think I’ve ever heard an adult explain it better.
Prey
[book]I started and finished reading Michael Crichton’s Prey this weekend, which will give you some idea of how good it was. It was not as scary as Richard Preston’s The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story, but it was not really meant to be. Overall, the story was well-paced and engrossing, but not quite as good as my favorite recent Crichton, Timeline.
ThinkGeek.com April Fools Links
For those of you who missed them, here are links to the amusing, and geeky, not-really-for-sale pages from ThinkGeek.com:
Enjoy, and let me know what your favorite item(s) are.
Goodbye to Los Quinlan
It’s a sad day for us, albeit for a good reason. Eric and Juana Quinlan, along with their sons James and John, are moving today to Georgia, to enroll in college for deaf ministries. Their goal is to work with ministries for the deaf in and around Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.
Eric has been my closest friend since early high school, and our families are very close.
I was actually somewhat responsible for Eric meeting Juana, way back when she was Juana Evangelista del Corazón de Jesus Gonzalez Guerrero, but I will save that story for later.
We will miss them greatly.
Today’s gem from the DNRC Newsletter
From the Dogbert’s New Ruling Class newsletter:
A co-worker was lamenting the fact that she got a speeding ticket on her way to and from traffic court. She concluded with, “I’ve had such a run of bad luck.”
Not likely to get the Lego seal of approval …
Kevin Ilsen directed me to www.blockdeath.com. Yes, there are many people with waaaaay too much time on their hands.
Back Home and Charged Up About .NET
I just got back from Kronos’ first-ever Technology Summit. It was a great event, filled with very useful mini-seminars, and mostly free of the “fluff†that seems to plague most corporations’ attempts at such an event.
At any rate, the last seminar I attended was run by a Microsoft consultant, and opened my eyes to just how cool .NET is, and how radically different it is from other Microsoft our-way-or-the-highway approaches to technology.
I’m going to give the ASP .NET Web Matrix Tool (a free product, although the full Visual InterDev .NET is available as trialware) a whirl, if I have time.