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Nature, green in tooth and claw
Our gardening proceeds apace. Per Harlan Holmes’ explicit and detailed instructions, we have been subjecting our seedlings to a strict regimen: 12 hours of blinding fluorescent light: The goggles! They do nothing! …followed by 12 hours at a ten-degree temperature drop (we put them in the basement.) The light makes them grow; the cold teaches…
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Tonight’s schedule of events
Tonight’s schedule of events will be as follows: ACT THE FIRST 6:30 PM: Arrive home. 6:31 – 6:32 PM: Negotiate whether or not small girls should use booster seats 6:32 – 6:33 PM: Negotiate whether or not small girls should wear bibs 6:33 – 6:34 PM: Negotiate whether or not small girls should have their…
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Toddler Teleology
Okay, as I keep trying to tell you, I’m a smart guy, right? And what’s more, I appear to have signed some kind of contract before birth so that, just like Sherlock Holmes, I would agree to be abysmally stupid in some things (I cannot find my way out of a paper bag), in order…
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Garden Post Two: The Diggening
Okay, this is where the rubber meets the road: we have just 17 days until Harlan Holmes, Gardening Bodhisattva and Cruel Taskmaster, holds his first spring gardening class. By that time, we will need to have: dug some beds in the back yard. constructed a seedling rack (complete with lights), purchased a bunch of seeds…
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Just in case a monster truck tries to run over my DPNs
I brought my knitting project (gauge swatch for Michelle Stern’s baby’s sweater) to Nicole and Dave’s excellent New Years’ Party last weekend (we celebrate New Years at exactly 9PM with a secretly prepared videotape of the ball drop. The kids have an excellent time, since for them New Years is really just a Pavlovian mechanism:…
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“You can’t stop progress, Mister DeWeese!” “BOOOOOO!”
Kate, Lydia, and I were sitting on the floor of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives yesterday, jammed in among a hundred other new representatives’ family members waiting for the swearing-in ceremony. This, apparently is supposed to go very smoothly: the new legislators take an oath, the new speaker is elected, and everyone goes for coffee.…
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Future shock
I had a moment of pure, Neal Stephenson style future shock last night, and I want to try to tell you about it. First of all, you probably know that I commute between West Chester, PA and New York City every day, five days a week. I get on a train at 6:11 AM, and…
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Some things that make me good at my job also make me an asshole.
And that’s okay with me. I’m not talking about the “JETSON! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING!?” asshole, I’m talking about the insufferable know-it-all asshole: “Of course, the switch to ActionScript 3 will be complete once Flash 9 penetration has reached 80%”, I’ll say to a room full of people, mere moments after…
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Hurrah, Barb wins!
Yaaaaay! The Inquirer’s blogger on the scene just reported that the count of absentee ballots was finally completed — and that put Barb 23 votes in the lead. Since there are less than 23 contested ballots, that means that she’s reporting to Harrisburg at 10AM on Monday. It also means that Democrats now control the…
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Real knitters don’t have trouble getting off the block, do they?
So I’m all ready to go on this baby sweater project, but I have: no pattern no needles no yarn I know Kate will probably hook me up with the needles, though I’d prefer to buy my own so I don’t have to worry about bending them with my feverish grasp. And actually, I seem…
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