TS was playing with her bottle. Perhaps she's secretly Hindi?
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Let The Shredding Commence
LB asked Grandpa Paul for a guitar for Christmas. Grandpa Paul, who toured Europe with a rock band straight out of high school and still plays a mean blues riff or ten, took him at his word.
That's a Washburn solid-body electric. It has a typical amp output, but also has its own integrated amp and speaker so he can play it on it own. And it's decorated with a Disney Cars theme. It couldn't be more perfect.
That's a Washburn solid-body electric. It has a typical amp output, but also has its own integrated amp and speaker so he can play it on it own. And it's decorated with a Disney Cars theme. It couldn't be more perfect.
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Da Boid
I wanted to take a beautiful, Norman-Rockwell-esque photo of our beautiful turkey fresh from the oven, but we just couldn't wait. So here's the ravaged carcass. Man, was it tasty! Way to go, Kim, and thanks to my parents for providing the bird in te first place.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Better Goodreads?
I love http://www.goodreads.com/. It's a beautiful site that does a great job of connecting readers with books and with each other. Many of my librarian colleagues and other bookish friends use it. But here's the problem: when I'm reading, I'm rarely near a computer.
When I pick up a book to read, or put down a book I've just finished, I'm in bed, or in the recliner, or at the lunch table at work. I'm almost never at the computer, because when I'm at the computer, I'm using it. For me, (and I suspect, most people) reading and web surfing are mutually exclusive activities.
Now, I do keep track of what I read. I do that with something that's always with me: my BlackBerry. Regular readers of my blog know it's my preferred Web 2.0 device. I'm posting this with it right now, in fact. I use a spreadsheet program called GridMagic to note the start and end times of each book I read, because it's important to me to know how much I'm reading, what kinds of books, and when. I used to post a monthly summary here on the blog, but that doesn't happen much anymore. However, I have begun sharing books with friends by doing a separate Twitter post each time I start or finish. This isn't satisfactory. I hate having to duplicate my efforts.
Of course, the perfect solution would be a mobile Goodreads. And in fact, there is one, but it inexplicably includes no facility for putting information INTO Goodreads. You can query the database to see if something's on your to-read list, but you can't add anything.
The same goes for Shelfari, LibraryThing, and other similar services I've found. This is, to say the least, frustrating.
I have an idea for a webservice that would take my tweets and put the information from them into a database or spreadsheet, or possibly take the information at a central point (like a WAP-friendly mobile site), store it and also make my tweets for me. If it would update my Facebook status, too, that would be epic. But that will take time and coding. Why can't Goodreads just make a mobile site that accepts data? Or at the very least, build that capability into their existing API?
When I pick up a book to read, or put down a book I've just finished, I'm in bed, or in the recliner, or at the lunch table at work. I'm almost never at the computer, because when I'm at the computer, I'm using it. For me, (and I suspect, most people) reading and web surfing are mutually exclusive activities.
Now, I do keep track of what I read. I do that with something that's always with me: my BlackBerry. Regular readers of my blog know it's my preferred Web 2.0 device. I'm posting this with it right now, in fact. I use a spreadsheet program called GridMagic to note the start and end times of each book I read, because it's important to me to know how much I'm reading, what kinds of books, and when. I used to post a monthly summary here on the blog, but that doesn't happen much anymore. However, I have begun sharing books with friends by doing a separate Twitter post each time I start or finish. This isn't satisfactory. I hate having to duplicate my efforts.
Of course, the perfect solution would be a mobile Goodreads. And in fact, there is one, but it inexplicably includes no facility for putting information INTO Goodreads. You can query the database to see if something's on your to-read list, but you can't add anything.
The same goes for Shelfari, LibraryThing, and other similar services I've found. This is, to say the least, frustrating.
I have an idea for a webservice that would take my tweets and put the information from them into a database or spreadsheet, or possibly take the information at a central point (like a WAP-friendly mobile site), store it and also make my tweets for me. If it would update my Facebook status, too, that would be epic. But that will take time and coding. Why can't Goodreads just make a mobile site that accepts data? Or at the very least, build that capability into their existing API?
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Birthday Celebration
TS turned 1 earlier this week, but my folks came into town this weekend, so we are having her dinner out tonight at Wasabi, which is becoming our birthday place. She had tamago sushi, and of course the traditional first chocolate.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Stir Crazy?
LB has decided that the world is now clothing-optional. He pulled his pants down in Mardel's the other day. Not the best place for a striptease. Now he's dancing around the living room in his diaper with the nursing pillow as his tutu.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Christmas Red
We all dressed this morning to match TS's beautiful outfit. BB even tied his own tie!
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Daughter's First School Project
TS also had "school" today, and she made these beautiful snowflakes for us!
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School At Last!
LB has been putting a backpack on and asking to go to school for months now. Today he started! It's his first day at bilingual preschool. I dropped by to peek in while he was getting ready for snack.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
A Fungus Among Us
A clutch of mushrooms grows from the hollow of a crabapple tree near our home.
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