spot’s last post hit home with me for a number of reasons. Before I left work on vacation a couple weeks ago, I made a super-large-print version of this quotation and hung it at my desk (from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, act II, scene 2): Cowards die many times before their …
Phase Five completed this afternoon. There’s a spot of cleanup left to do in the basement, but the basement great room has now been converted to a pretty decent media room. We need to do something about the furnishing situation, but there’s a recliner and a papasan chair that make …
Phase Four (modified) of the Big House Reboot is now complete. Today we went and got a little desk for the little ones (and Eleya) to use up on the main floor, an unfinished real wood piece that we are going to stain to something resembling rosewood. Please wish us …
I realized that I didn’t really include any shots from Christmastime here, so let me take care of that problem. This first one was completely unstaged, right before coming downstairs: Revolting, isn’t it? I wish this was a one-time occurrence and they could just beat each other up like normal …
Finally Eleya and I are getting our plan on the road for rearranging our house. Now the kids are older, and we don’t have to worry so much about where they are — now it’s usually about why they can’t be quieter wherever that is. We kicked off The Big …
One of the gifts I gave Eleya for Christmas was a DVD of the superb ultra-low budget indie film Primer, a film we saw a couple years ago which made a very strong impact. Made by Texan engineer-turned-auteur Shane Carruth, who also starred, edited, scored, and so on, it’s a …
Courtesy of the inimitable Karsten Wade, and in response to Allen’s post, I’d like to add It’s All Text! to the list of good Firefox extensions. Karsten and I use this to call Emacs for doing editing of wiki pages — so important when you have a twitchy touchpad.
I knew that when we ordered a G1G1 XO laptop for my daughter, it would either hit it big, or go down in smoke and flames. As I’m sure the OLPC folks could have guessed, it’s an ENORMOUS smash. Evie hasn’t spent more than a few minutes away from it …
What’s with the aristocratic bent of recent titles here? There may be something subconscious going on there that will make sense to me later, but I’m afraid to look too deeply into it right now. This post is about a film that changed my life when I saw it. I …
Matthew Szulik steps down as CEO of Red Hat. I’ve met Mr. Szulik a few times, but he really doesn’t know me from Adam. However, I will never forget the opening remarks he made at the 2006 Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. He talked about his kids — his …