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Back from Avalon
We’re back from two whole weeks at a beach house in Avalon, New Jersey, and it was FANTASTIC. We rang all the chimes: First week cold and rainy, so we had to entertain ourselves with jigsaw puzzles and a spinning captain’s chair: check. I’m not being sarcastic, here: this is a traditional and important part…
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Hello, my name is: LEGION
For about the past six months, I’ve been working with an interaction designer named Grace Perez on one of my biggest projects. She’s really quite on the ball — her work is precise, she quickly understands the exception cases that result from a particular design, and she’s able to quickly envision and document page flows…
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Bill Irwin on Sesame Street
Thank God for YouTube. Thank GOD for the network effect that turns the entire Internet into one giant distributed network of citizens putting content up. Because at last — AT FREAKING LAST — someone has put up the thing that I’ve been searching for since the day I discovered Netscape Navigator 0.8 in 1994. This…
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Reel beach hanging muster mansion broccoli OF STEEL
We went to the beach for Memorial Day weekend, and Lydia had a great time charging into the freezing cold water over and over again, and jumping over the waves. Jumping over the waves requires an adult behind her, arms in her armpits, counting one two THREE and bouncing her into the air, then grimacing…
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Guerilla Drive-In: “Meatballs” at Northbrook Canoe Company
1979 summer-camp movie “Meatballs” at Northbrook Canoe Company was a lot of fun. The weather was intermittently rainy, so we screened the film under the tin roof of the canoe barn (formerly a feed and grain store, before Ezekiel C. “Zeke” Hubbard started Northbrook in 1977.) Our friend and next-door neighbor Harold Ross brought a…
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Goodbye, Bob
This is a hard blog post to write; blogging is a medium with narrow shoulders, and any blog is an edited sub-set of your whole life. So I haven’t mentioned my father-in-law Bob “Snuffy” Smith’s illness with cancer, even though it’s been a huge part of our lives since last fall. Bob was diagnosed with…
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Ancient Spirits of Nerdery, I summon you!
Spirits of Old-School Nerdery, lend me your power! From your cinderblocked halls, glowing with the green light of oscilloscope displays, I summon you! From your recumbent bikes, I summon you! I need your Ancient Skills of Electrical Engineering! Please comment this post! Here are my challenges, O wise ones: Stepping down DC Power from 18v…
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First GDI showing went well!
You can read more about the the Guerilla Drive-In Showing of “Pillow Talk” here. I had a great time, nothing dangerous and/or expensive exploded, and I’m looking forward to the next one! Meanwhile, I’m thinking about showings coming up and OH MY SAINTED AUNT we will TOTALLY have one with a giant refrigerator-box castle involved…
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Guerilla Drive-In first 2007 showing tomorrow night
I’m (mostly) all ready to go for the Guerilla Drive-In’s first showing of 2007 tomorrow night. Which is actually the first showing since 2005; last year, things just never got off the ground. Thanks to Harold Ross’s awesome photograph, the MacGuffin made it to uber-blog BoingBoing on Tuesday, so there was a flurry of (really…
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Announcing The International Federation for the Betterment of John Young
So when your name is “John Young”, there’s a lot of you out there. Why, as a kid, there were no less than FOURTEEN “John Youngs” in the suburban church we attended. Four of them even shared my middle initial. A Google search for “John Young” returns 161 million results. LinkedIn has more John Youngs…
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