March 31, 2005
La Vida Robot: "Us illiterate kids from the desert?" In Wired, via lemonodor.
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March 29, 2005
This space responds as follows to repeated queries from central Vermont: This is the one year we'll be able to get away with giving the kid a toothbrush for Easter, a brightly colored toothbrush adorned with Elmo but otherwise kind of the opposite of candy. Perfect reaction. Next year it'll be all Marshmallow Peeps and jelly beans, provided that she's a sufficiently good sport to dress up in a bunny suit.
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March 25, 2005
The infinite cat project is completely excellent except that it contains cats.
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March 23, 2005
Dad throws together the cover of the kid's first album.
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March 21, 2005
Waiting around to pick up the stomach virus that your kid is just starting to get over is a lot like watching fishing shows on ESPN, except you're waiting for vomit and diarrhea instead of fish. You know it'll happen eventually.
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March 20, 2005
In order to ease the devastating letdown that was UVM's performance against Michigan State, this space presents two batches of pictures of the kid.
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March 19, 2005
Deadly toys of days gone by includes the lawn darts that this space's author once hit its brother in the eyebrow with, which, I believe, was never reported as one of the several thousand injuries to which the site refers. Lawn darts were a great deal of fun.
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March 18, 2005
We win!! It was so exciting that I accidentally injured Kara's neck. (She is expected to rally.) So now the longer the Cats make it into the tourney the more I'll get to grate at hearing people say "Vermont" when they clearly mean "UVM." This is pretty cool.
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So we're up 30-27 partway into the second half. Let us have our fun, dammit! Update: 15 seconds left, tie game, and possession. Are you kidding me?...Update: Foot on the line for the fifth time tonight!, [expletives deleted]. Overtime.
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So UVM is making its third annual appearance in the NCAA tournament, and have drawn Syracuse (again) in the first round. Dan and Jake are heading out to Worcester to watch the game in person. One crosses his fingers yet again, although how much good sports news can one guy deal with in just one short year?
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March 17, 2005
The iPod just shuffled from Forget the Flowers by Wilco straight into Green Hell by Metallica. It was pretty damn cool.
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Jay Rosen: "A whole front in the Culture War is now devoted to these activities of disqualifying the traditional press."
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March 15, 2005
Happy birthday, Libbo.
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St. Augustine Bear: "Because of the schism in the worldwide Anglican communion over the ordination of homosexuals, the U.S. Episcopal Church will no longer sponsor this comic strip."
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First there's no hockey and now nobody's even bothering to report that Bode Miller, an American (!), won the friggin World Cup. Why wasn't I informed?
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March 14, 2005
One very tired and confused little kid later we eventually arrived home. Never book yourself on the last jetBlue flight of the night.
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March 13, 2005
After a pleasant week in the (relative) warmth, we're gearing up to fly home in the dead of night with a baby. Wish us luck.
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March 04, 2005
As Lib returns, I leave. This space now enters a week of radio quiet, if not radio silence. Stay warm!
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March 03, 2005
Holy crap, this space needs a vacation.
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March 01, 2005
Huh. I guess I often forget that this kid's name is actually Elizabeth. Weird.
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So Henry Pratt is my hero for being half of Taft, the second song on whose eponymous EP is now my favorite song. When the Presidents of the United States of America first came out I thought, this sounds like something Henry would be doing if he weren't getting a Ph. D. right now. Well, now he did, maybe better. Certainly Henrier. Nice job, Henry.
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Rabbit, rabbit.
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