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Picking a name for your baby

While Emily and I were brainstorming naming for Ryan, I briefly threw out the idea of giving him an entirely different, shorter last name than either of our last names. The dreadfully un-scientific thoughts I had were: read more…

Feb 28th

Ryan

Feb 15th

On couch, looking around

Ryan is rolling over onto his stomach on his own very regularly now read more…

Feb 14th

Christmas

Feb 14th

If only I had a cape

Feb 13th

Ryan sitting up

Feb 13th

Jan 26th

Seeing the world through a kid's eyes

Before we had Ryan, Emily had predicted one benefit to having kids would be we could see the world afresh through their eyes. read more…

Jan 22nd

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error...

My review/summary/synopsis/notes on “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error” by Kathryn Schulz: read more…

Jan 15th

Great Timing

I decided to carry Ryan on my shoulders today for the first time. Since he can’t sit up on his own, I held onto his arms so that he wouldn’t fall over backward. I carried him into the kitchen and Emily said “oh, he’s smiling!” I wanted to see it myself, so I carried him back into the bathroom. At this point, he wasn’t smiling anymore. But as I was watching...

Jan 6th

Practicing Standing

Dec 28th

Emily and Ryan

Dec 28th

Neck exercise

Dec 28th

Ryan in hooded duck towel

Dec 28th

Ryan held up

Dec 28th

http://t.co/q0kF1lNk

Dec 17th

http://t.co/4OFg08DJ

Dec 11th

Fixing / reverting ubuntu unity alt tab behavior...

Upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” to Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” installs Ubuntu’s Unity, which changes the configuration of the window switcher that is usually bound to Alt-Tab. Instead of switching between all windows, it now switches between applications. These are instructions on how to revert the behavior back: In gconf-editor: read more…

Dec 10th

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Installing jpegtran in Ubuntu 10.10 (a.k.a....

To install jpegtran in the Ubuntu 10.10 Linux distribution, you can run the following command in a terminal window/shell sudo apt-get install libjpeg-progs jpegtran allows lossless rotation of JPEG images. For example, you can losslessly rotate an image 90° counterclockwise by running: jpegtran -rotate 270 input.jpg > output.jpg Or you can losslessly rotate an image 90° clockwise by running:...

Nov 14th

Flap

Ryan flapping his wings read more…

Nov 6th

Ryan

Nov 6th

No way!

Nov 6th

Whoa!

Nov 6th

Flop

Nov 6th

Flop

Nov 6th

A favored arm position for sleeping

Nov 6th

Emily and Ryan

Nov 6th

Kiss kiss

Nov 6th

Hooded towel

Nov 6th

Random Facial Expression

Nov 6th

Grandpa

Nov 6th

Bundled up in the cold hospital

Nov 6th

Umbilical Cord Stump

Nov 6th

The new face of doing dishes

Nov 6th

Passed out post-burp

Nov 6th

Ryan swaddled

Nov 6th

Ryan at 2 days

Nov 6th

Ryan at 1 day

Nov 6th

Monitor gamma calibration for Linux / X.Org

The monica-3.7-7mdv2011.0.i586.rpm binary RPM for monica (a free monitor calibration tool for Linux) does not run in Ubuntu 11.10 (a.k.a. “Oneiric Ocelot”). ./usr/bin/monica: error while loading shared libraries: libfltk.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory However, the author of monica also wrote a python script, GAMMApage which also allows you to calibrate...

Nov 5th

Ryan Sleeping

Oct 27th

Ryan Crying

Oct 27th

I want food now!

Oct 27th

Every time anyone says the words “crazy” or “baby” in a Britney Spears song. In chronological order. http://t.co/q936RTt8

Sep 29th

Sep 24th

Emily and Ryan

Sep 22nd

Tummy Time

Sep 22nd

Yawn

Sep 22nd

Tummy Time

Sep 22nd

Rooting

Ryan rooting read more…

Sep 22nd