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Meet Sluggo
I should take this opportunity to introduce Sluggo, our new traveling companion. We adopted Sluggo a couple weeks ago in anticipation of our impending parenthood (he was a gift from Velma’s coworkers,...
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Fallen Leaf Lake
Velma and I celebrated our birthdays last weekend near Tahoe at beautiful Fallen Leaf Lake. Our birthdays are ten days apart, so we usually celebrate them together with a weekend getaway. We had...
View ArticleUpdate on work, website, et al
I’m wrapping up my current six-month contract and have accepted a job at a new employer, where I will start in late July. I can’t quite say where it is yet, as we haven’t dotted all the t’s and crossed...
View ArticleShit My Kids Ruined
The site Shit My Kids Ruined has me frightened. I’m going to have to construct an indestructible bunker before our kid gets to toddler age, and lock myself and my stuff in it. There are some truly...
View ArticleHow HeinleinBiography.com is doing
Two weeks after launch my site HeinleinBiography.com is #9 on a Google search for the term “Heinlein Biography,” which is pretty good. Sadly, in a Google search for “Robert Heinlein biography,” it...
View ArticleA new meaning
“We’re a family now, isn’t that weird?” I whispered into Velma’s ear. And then it hit me. As we laid there in each other’s arms in the hospital bed, with our new little boy downstairs tethered to...
View ArticleTim Minchin’s Storm the Animated Movie
I wish I could show this to anyone who’s ever used the word “energy” to mean anything other than electricity when talking to me. “Oh, man, that guy’s got such negative energy.” Fuck you, you...
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Hangin’ with Tony
I got to spend all day Saturday with my buddy Tony Alves, who I rarely see. It was also his birthday, plus the first time I got to meet his girlfriend, and the first time he got to meet my wife and...
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Milenkaya.org featured in design book
I’ve had this book since it came out in 2010 and I didn’t even realize one of my sites was featured in it, until last week when I was doing a search and it came up in Google Books. Milenkaya.org is the...
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Ollie’s sandbox
A couple years ago I constructed a sandbox for my son Oliver. It’s one of the best investments of time and money ever. He plays in it all the time, and it never gets old. I had some requirements: Lid...
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