Star Wars fans in New York.

Word of the day:ephemera. Corresponding site of the day.

I just moved another step closer to being a vegetarian.

A couple quick things today. Perry reminded me of this site at Karina's birthday party. TopoZone. Good Stuff While driving early Sunday with Conrad I heard three great spots on NPR's "The Savvy Traveler". The first on Geocaching (an obsession amongst a few friends), the second on creating collages from items collected while travelling. (which adrienne and I have done for years, starting with our honeymoon), and a peice on journaling, which was inspiring.

Adrienne found this pretty funny site. ZeFrank. Click on all the stuff of the left side.

Hehe...Ipaulo has some funny links up to corporate anthems. Including this one for IBM...

Hehe...found these on wired this morning... Ot-to - very child dreamlike, I dare you not to smile. Here are a bunch more...wow I discovered a nice little treasure trove. Another collection I'm done now...I swear.

I saw this article yesterday on some scientists who wired a rat to a joystick. I suprised at least one friend by my lack of real concern over this state of events, but with so many crazy fundamentalists running around this just seems so tame.

The ren fair is back. I must say I was completely underwhelmed by my one experience there.

Adrienne got me a baby backpack (thunder-bolt-3-slapper) for my birthday this year. So... This Saturday at 6:50 Conrad and I saddled up and headed for the falls in Monrovia Canyon Park, after the compulsory stop at home depot of course. The canyon was cool and empty. Spring is at work in our mountains and the hills are green with scattered flowers. 1.5 miles round trip. On Sunday we felt the need to try it again. This time the Mt Wilson Trail from Sierra Madre found me sweating with my papoose. (They are having a race to Mt Wilson next month, as if) Conrad got to see his first blue bellied lizards, as well as the occassional squirrel and red tailed hawk. We made it as far as 1st water. 2.6 miles roundtrip.

Ran across the Teddy Borg on Ars-Technica. This is a wonderful use of your spare time BTW. I want to make my own now.

Last night I saw the last episode an interesting documentary series on PBS called Commanding Heights. The entire series is up on their site for 30 days. If you want to know where the modern economy is from, and where it is going, I highly advise a look.

Today I am 34.

This guy is making a fully animated movie on his mac. And it looks cool. Rustboy.

Every once in a while I find something on the internet that I just don't have the words for. Check this and supply your own.

Who's hungry?

Some interesting conversation with Christopher Hitchens on The Charlie Rose Show. Its in Real Audio party people.

From the gospel of Calvin and Hobbes, January 19th, 1986. A response to the silliness below.

I think we all know about Eric's banishment of the TV. I think he threw the baby out with the bath water. In this case we might both be right.

Conrad won't sleep. We decided early along on this parenting trip that leaving your child alone in a dark room to cry himself to sleep was tantamount to poking him with a sharp stick. So, we do other things. Walking, reading, and especially driving. Last night on our drive we were on Sierra Madre in Sierra Madre =) when Adrienne points to the center divider and says: "Wax the spring horse" Perhaps more information would be useful... We were listening to John Coltrane and talking about jazz. So here I'm thinking she's making some jazz reference or some free form "jazz-like" word association and I'm desperately trying to figure it out. My mind twirls about this phrase, dissecting it, running it through every iteration, looking for meaning. Finally I throw in the towel, admit my mediocrity, and ask her "WTF does 'wax the spring horse' mean?". Of course she bursts into laughter. She had said something entirely different and I had mis-heard what she had said. Typical guy.