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More (lots more) pictures of the little fishy. Grandparents please note: I’ve broken the gallery out into months, so you should use this link in future: http://www.tikaro.com/lydia

Genghis had his horde, Cyrus his millions. Yesterday morning upon arriving in the city, Penn Station was filled with the Hessians of corporate marketing: packs of temporary event staff in yellow Sierra Mist T-shirts, holding six-packs of Sierra Mist soda, red Sierra Mist ID badges slung around their necks. “Sierra Mist?” “Sierra Mist?” “Regular or…

You can’t scare me, Seneca: I’m making good use of my time. Kate and my first date was a true stay-up-all-night metropolitan extravaganza: the Rainbow Room for cosmopolitans and dancing on the revolving floor, then Pravda (this was before they had a sign on the street, mind you), then a hole-in-the sidewalk Chinatown hipster dive…

This link was on Slashdot this morning, and it’s REALLY COOL George Mason University Speech Accent Archives

Kate has sent me links of some other bloggers’ really great birth stories: dooce.com Defective Yeti

Blog image retrospective, 2000 – 2004 This dynamically-generated page displays all the images I’ve posted to my Blog in chronological order. It’s the story of my recent life, told in small, grainy .gif images. See if you can find: Alejandro Rubio in a T.J. O’Pootertoot’s pizza-time mustache The Pope being crushed by a meteorite Kate…

This is my first morning back since Lydia was born on February 19th (I took two weeks of parental leave, plus an additional week of medical leave, and god bless [My employer] for making it available.) Man, it’s hard to leave the rest of the family behind. My alarm went off at 5:30 this morning…

Hoo boy; the transition from non-parent to parent is one of those things that everyone talks about in whispers. “What are the first weeks like?” “Ha ha ha, you’ll find out!” [dramatic pause] “…you’ll find out.” So, what’s it like? Not all that bad, yet, frankly. Lydia has been staying in the nursery, and the…

More photos of Lydia!

Okay, just so my child will be Googled before she’s twelve hours old: Lydia Baldwin Young Born February 19th, 2004 2:52 AM 6 pounds, 3.6 ounces. 19.2 inches! Lydia arrived five weeks early or two weeks early, depending on which figures you go by. She’s pink and healthy and basking under the warmer in the…