“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” [...]
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On Trains and Ice Cream
When I was rather young, I loved trains. I was probably in elementary school or younger during this whole time, so I was still rather young. But I just loved trains. I have pictures of me as a child wearing my “conductor hat.” We lived a couple blocks from a railroad, and I used to [...]
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The Oldest of Pictures
Late last year, my mom loaned me a bunch of her old pictures to scan in. I’ll be posting them here as time goes by, they’re going onto Flickr as we speak. This is the first batch – they are all from long before I was born. I mean, there are pictures of my grandmother [...]
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Poke Belly
I’ve really been enjoying the show Chef Academy on Bravo. I’m a reluctant fan of some reality shows, and this is definitely the type that I do like. They’re only interesting if they are about “creating” something – in this case, food. I also appreciate that it’s not strictly an “elimination” type show, where someone [...]
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Energy Audit
Some nice gentlemen came by our house today and did an energy audit. Apparently there are some serious issues with our crawlspace. Not really news to me. This is an old house. It was built in 1901… although it has been remodeled enough that you really can’t tell. Nor could the fellow getting the audit [...]
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Aviation Security Mostly Show?
This Bruce Schneier article on the problems in our ways of fighting terrorism is very interesting.
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Brunch
We had a fabulous brunch today, courtesy of our friends Anisa and Graeme. They have a lovely house, and it was all decked out to perfection. We brought Zoë, who was of course the life of the party, and in a good mood right up until the last. She of course took to Amy Ruppel [...]
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Sleepless Child
Our child is refusing to sleep. Now, I know she’s just nine months old and teething a lot, so this is to be expected. But it’s getting a bit crazy. I think she gets less sleep at night that we do, which seems just plain wrong. We’ve tried one thing after another, and I suspect [...]
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Missing Tooth
So last night I decided to try a salt water taffy. I don’t think I’ve ever had one before, and so I asked my father in law to pick out the absolute best flavor. I put the taffy in my mouth, bit down perhaps a bit too hard in retrospect, and almost immediately heard the [...]
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