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Kate and I went Geocaching with her parents over the weekend. See tiny pictures >>

I hadn’t been to a haunted house in several years, and was starting to feel really deprived. Especially since I’ve given of my best to this holiday before, I wanted to do some super-duper Halloween-y stuff! Fortunately, I have enthusiastic friends who are willing to drive hundreds of miles to see Amish teenagers in rubber…

Steve Farrell sent me this link: What do 10-year-olds in 2003 have to say about the games we played in 1983? Like Pong, for example? Niko: Hey�Pong. My parents played this game. Brian: It takes this whole console just to do Pong? Kirk: What is this? [Picks up and twists the paddle controller] Am I…

Kieran had some thoughts on the Time Traveler’s Handbook: I’ve been thinking about your time traveler’s guide project, and although you’ve probably mentioned this before, are you thinking of it as mostly a technical guide, an etiquette manual, or a combination of the two? Naturally, in a great deal of my history of science reading…

Kate’s brother Matt Smith is an accomplished punk rock flyer-maker: He’s also an accomplished punk rocker. “Bardzig” is a Danzig/Misfits type of tribute band they’re getting together for one night only so they can play local bar Rex’s and wear leather jackets and meet sexy bat-winged skeleton ladies.

It’s been a while since I posted here. What I’ve been doing: Kate made curtains for the baby’s room, which feature monkeys riding on camels. It’s a good, Rudyard Kipling-esque kind of monkey-camel riding thing, though, not the kind of thing destined to give nightmares. The oil painting by my brother Oliver, however, is a…

I’m learning to use a new Web application architecture called Struts, which is a Java framework for making complex websites that carefully separate the front-end pages (which creative folks build) from the back-end code (which the programmers write) from the business logic that orders the pages (which the client service teams change their minds about…

Kate and I were looking through family albums yesterday. I’m particularly fond of the two pictures at left, probably taken at roughly the same time — In the picture above, I’m, uh… four? Which would make Kate two years old in the picture below. Anyhow, her big wheel completely outclassed mine. She looks like she…

We’re expecting a baby in March! Hurrah! I went back to the archives and looked at the stuff I was blogging about in November of 2000. “Don’t mix grappa with Scotch!” I warned, trying to project a lighthearted, rakish air. Whatever. Blogging is a lightweight genre, meant for publishing trivia to the world, but even…