Good morning! It's a beautiful one here. Sunny and 70°F. Michelle was excited to learn that the Town Pool will stay open an extra week this year. In years past it always seemed to close too early, usually a week before labor day. I had a smooth drive down listening to the TWiG #159 podcast as they interviewed the man behind App.net.
Michelle went to 7:30 Mass this morning, and should have a good day with the kids. Abby is in Belmont and on her way to Lake Winnipesaukee today. She should have a great day to hang out lakeside.
Ladies, if a man says he'll fix it, he will. There's no need to remind him every 6 months about it. «grin» (as seen on Google+)
Via gabrielsaldana: “that awkward moment when you try to scroll down a page with Ctrl-N and a new browser window appears. (i.e. an Emacs mindset)”
NFP Method As Effective As Contraceptive Pill, New Research Finds. Yeah, but where's the profit margin in that?! ;-p You could have 100 studies say the same thing and doctors still wouldn't mention it. Michelle and I saw studies like that almost twenty years ago.
It's been a reboot-happy morning for my office laptop and tower as corporate IT has pushed out a bunch of Microsoft and Adobe updates. Finally onto "real" work...
From Slate magazine: “Let’s Nationalize Facebook”. «eye roll» Take an annoying service and add more government oversight. What could go wrong?
Had a good lunch with two friends from AMD at Il Forno up in Acton, MA. Now I need to nurse a large coffee to make sure that lasagna doesn't make me sleepy...
Why does Chitty Chitty Bang Bang have a "Very long wait" at Netflix? Hunger Games might make sense, but this?
Wait... the boiling frog anecdote is a myth? (Snopes.com link) How often do we hear it in "slippery slope" arguments?
Slideshow Humor: Picture Comparison of Joe Biden and Paul Ryan
Excited! One of my friends in San Diego is going to send me his old Leica digital camera.
Michelle took Claire and the boys to the Town Pool this afternoon. I'm a bit jealous because it was a great day for it. I wrapped up my day, logging my hours, writing my status report. Unfortunately on my drive home I took a way I don't go as often anymore and took the wrong exit. I spent about 15 minutes trying to get back on track.
Timothy finished his book The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable today. Daniel is almost finished with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and wants to read the next one right after it.
Since Timothy occasionally dabbles in Javascript, I showed him Steve Gibson's cool Javascript+Canvas animation demo.
Timothy was showing me a discover of his on the InterWebs: Platypus. No, not Perry the Platypus. This is a tool to facilitate turning Mac scripts into simple Mac applications...
Wanted to learn more about PubSubHubbub, as I'd heard the morning podcast mention it a bit, but didn't understand it along the commute. Interesting technology...
Was getting the boys tucked in bed with their prayers when Claire called so that I can pick her up from work. When I got home she tried out her new "magnetic nail polish". Yeah, it's a bit gimmicky, but the end product is pretty cool. Good night all!!
“So will my heavenly Father do to you,
unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.” — Matthew 18