last year i saw an eagle in the wild for the first time. this week i saw a bear in the wild for the first time.
next year i’m expecting sasquatch…
yosemite national park, california
previous: March 2010
| bears, oh my. | 2010.03.31 |
| yosemite falls | 2010.03.30 |
ethan at yosemite falls.
| these boots are slow | 2010.03.29 |
logan’s first time skiing.
| sunshine – part i | 2010.03.22 |
the prelude, as promised.
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| sunshine – part ii | 2010.03.19 |
if in spite of the infinite number of good reasons this doesn’t make you smile, then its prelude, which will air tomorrow, certainly will…
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| busted | 2010.03.18 |
“dad, you’re not watching that are you? they have guns.”
ethan’s remarks after catching me watching lost when he was up getting a drink of water instead of sleeping soundly in bed as i expected…
| devoiced | 2010.03.17 |
its situations like the following that confirm to me how completely i lack the necessary bedside manner to have been a doctor…
the new patients get a form to fill out with their medical problems, family illnesses, social history etc. one question on the form is marital status. today one man had very clearly written devoiced. i thought it was likely an error, although it could simply be an apt description of the situation.
| the sunny side | 2010.03.16 |
yesterday i was still a bit too consumed with the trauma of traveling across the border to properly describe my holiday as…
incredible location…
incredible dining…
incredible snow…
incredible company…
outside the return to the u.s., the entire trip – incredible.
| home sweet home | 2010.03.15 |
i just got back from a week in canada that i would have described as a perfect vacation had it not been for the confusion and disarray at the airport trying to clear u.s. customs and security.
this was my first experience with air travel outside the u.s. since the underwear bomber and i’m too tired now to recall the entire event.
suffice it to say, i think the tsa has a lot of work to do if they think their current circus antics are deterring would-be terrorists or enhancing travelers sense of security.
| cell no | 2010.03.11 |
there is a self-absorbed woman who attends our gym. i’ve come to this opinion of her because every time she arrives she requires a personal trainer to keep her motivated and entertained, and her workouts seem to occupy and prevent others from using a full quarter of the gym. there are also superficial indications of this woman’s temperament but i won’t detail all of that here.
a few days ago i was walking in to the market and there was a woman on a cell phone standing at the passenger door of her car. a man in the car next to her had just completed putting his groceries in his trunk and began to patiently wait for the woman to move so he could get in his car.
watching this, and noticing that the woman was oblivious i made a gesture to the man that he should knock her over to get to his car. the man and i shared a smile and i walked in to the market somewhat disappointed that the obnoxious, self-absorbed woman hadn’t been decked.
a few minutes later in the produce section, the rude woman i had seen in the parking lot walked by and was none other than my obnoxious gym mate.
| dual 8-bit accumulators | 2010.03.09 |
my now ten year old nephew (of some random person’s war fame) turned in the following book report.
Charting the Wild West
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 set off a huge world event, for Thomas Jefferson knew not the cost of the territory, nor Napoleon the mass of the purchase or Jefferson what the area was composed of. So he sent for two trustworthy generals, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. Both were willing, both prepared for the dangers ahead.
Just barely.
How did they chart it?
One group had twelve personnel traveling, the other had nineteen. The dozen was commanded by Meriwether Lewis, the other by William Clark. In all it was one group, similar to the Motorola 6809’s dual 8-bit accumulators that could be bound in the same accumulator to make a single 16-bit accumulator. (Note that the chip can simply be called the 6809.) (Speaking of microprocessors, the Zilog Z800 [or 8108, 8116, 8208, or 8216] had an extra 256 bytes of random access memory on top of the main RAM [which was either 512 thousand bytes or sixteen million bytes, depending on whether the address bus was nineteen bit or 24-bit]. The extra 256B could be used for two purposes: cache and scratchpad. Note also that the data bus came in either eight or sixteen bits.) The young representative democratic republic was now ready to expand to 50 S. A. and Jefferson knew just how it would occur. A keelboat and two pirogues departed, first encountering Missouri and the Oto; however, the Sioux showed a massive threat. The Yankton Sioux were not pleased with the five medals received and told them to continue west, where they would meet the hostile Tetons. When war threatened, both sides withdrew at the last hour before war. Still, the Corps proceeded roughly NW. On their way, they met a Shoshone whom had experience as a hostage of several Hidatsa. Luckily, they released her. The first fork led them to the Falls, the second to the Jefferson River. Finally, Sagagwea found a long-lost brother by the name of Cameahwait. From Fort Clatsop, Lewis took the entirely uncharted Maria River and Clark crossed the Yellowstone.
That’s all there is to it.
allegedly his teacher took off points for not staying on topic, i think she needs to find him other topics…
| growing up | 2010.03.08 |
ethan seems have to arrived at another milestone in his development. he is bringing home homework with words that he has spelled on his own. he is playing more imaginative games by himself and when he wants to play with us he is asking for monopoly. when we capitulate to playing monopoly, he can cipher out his own money. even, the neighbors have noticed and this weekend asked “who is that teenager in you house?”
this is all very cool, except that this new milestone has put some distance between he and logan and you can see that logan is missing her best friend.
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