mike’s place

This morning Kathryn’s snack consisted of Cheerios, raisins, dried cranberries, and a mixture of rice, chicken, and tomato sauce. She had just about finished the rice mixture and asked me to “hold my spoon, Daddy”. This is what she asks me when she wants me to scrape the bowl. I scraped the remainder out of [...]

Here’s a shot that I’ve done a bit more than the usual processing on. I haven’t posted the original yet — I’m only up to July 2005, iirc. I think this photo has a bit of a ‘glamourous’ mistiness to it. This is especially true in the larger version — click on the photo to [...]

Holy moly! Kathryn is 2 years and one day old, and she’s just started to ask ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ This evening, just after supper time, she asked me “Daddy, why baby sleep?” I explained that her baby doll sleeps because she’s tired and needs her rest. She then asked me “How baby sleep?” I told [...]

Cheeeeeeeese!

I think it’s somebody’s birthday today. I’m wondering just who that might be. Could it be — oh I don’t know — Kathryn? Happy 2nd birthday sweetheart. My how you’ve grown! Photo taken January 24, 2006.

A fresh dusting of snow on our patio table. Photo taken January 21, 2006

I think I need to start looking around the house for pods.
This evening, Kathryn and I were sitting on the floor, and I was feeding her supper. She’s almost two, but every once in a while she likes to eat in strange places - on the floor, sitting on the kitchen counter, etc, and have [...]

Here’s my results from taking the “Computer Geek / Nerd Quiz”.

Click the image above to take the test yourself. Oh, and answer honestly! The scariest thing — I didn’t look anything up (i.e. google). Shudder!
Via Evil Genius Chronicles.

Whoa! This would have been a lot of fun back in my cubicle days. 12 barrels, oh my!

Ok, so why hasn’t someone told us about this? Apparently there is a manual! And there’s one for toddlers as well! Who knew?

I was just spending a couple of hours catching up on reading my feeds when I had this ’strange’ feeling. I looked down at the ‘unread’ count in NetNewsWire, and saw this:

Oh oh!

Do you need to generate a colour palette from a photograph. Try out the Color Palette Generator. Upload a jpg, gif, or png file and a palette is generated from the image. Very useful!

As mentioned previously, Kathryn has told us not to touch her butt. Here’s the audio…

Ahhhh, the joys of parenthood.

Dad. Honest. The fish that was nibbling on my toes was this big!

Well sweetheart - did you catch it? Daddy’s hungry. Photo taken July 29, 2005.

Just prior to dinner last night, Kathryn and I were rough-housing in the family room as we often do. Kathryn is almost 2 years old now, so some of her favourite words are “No”, “Don’t”, and “Mine”. Her vocabulary has been increasing by leaps and bounds and we can actually converse surprisingly well in relatively [...]

Having trouble with New Year’s resolutions?
Try some advice from a Nobel Prize winner. My favourite method is ‘pre-commitment’.

Indeed!
Guy Kawasaki has started blogging. Whoot! This should be quite a ride. I’m currently reading his latest book, Art of the Start, and enjoying it tremendously.

1994? What’s this about 1994? It’s 2006!

Well, the 1994 is in reference to a bottle of Dom Pérignon which DJ and I – mostly I – consumed last night. It had been a birthday present a few years ago, and had been stored in our basement ever since.

We did our traditional quiet, stay at [...]