While cruising around downtown with Archie, a Roller Derby want ad caught my eye. No experience needed!
The sad fact of the matter is that my first thought wasn’t about feminist values and what the Roller Derby has in common with mud wrestling. (Although a brief google turned up some interesting points on the matter)
My first [...]
Roller Derby Mama
A future politician?
On our way to a friends house after school, Carter shared some of his school-related frustration:
“E accused me of getting up before our table was called, and that was not true. I got up when the Van Gogh table was called. Then, he followed me to my desk and said I walked really fast to [...]
Local blogging
Rick at City IT emailed this morning about an editorial in the Herald-Times about increasing the paper’s blog presence. Of course, thanks to the H-T’s business model, no news is free news. This is the sum of what is available to me:
We stopped getting the local paper during my first year of grad school at [...]
Jello and Tuna and Toast, Oh My!
Tales from the 70’s Crypt might have served up some of these recipes. Oh. My.
I’ve never laughed so hard at recipes. It’s a snarkfest for gelatin and mackerel.
Duh Experts
It is difficult to believe that a top seed playing at home in adverse weather conditions suitable to their style of play would be an underdog. Yet that’s what the experts at ESPN.com — at least one of whom once played for Chicago — think about the Chicago Bears. The lone vote of confidence in [...]
Itsy Bitsy Spider- how bright is he?
Archie has taken to asking me to repeat the same songs, over and over, in the car. One of his favorites is Carly Simon’s version of Itsy Bitsy Spider.
On the way home from swimming lessons we were listening to the above mentioned song as many times as we could fit in the [...]
Digital Simplicity through Activity-Based Computing
Attempted live blogging. Notes will be rough, until I have a chance to clean them up later.
James Landay, an associate computer science professor at the University of Washington, gave a talk today on “Digital Simplicty through Activity-Based Computing.” Landay was also a past director of Intel Research in Seattle.
Design Use and Build of Interactive Systems [...]