Blogging, redux
As many of you have undoubtedly noticed, I haven't posted in 6 months. And my last post was about the impending birth of our first child. Well, Zach was born a healthy baby boy at 8 pounds and 14 ounces and the last few months...
Author: Marc
Today is the day
Today is 41 weeks and a day and our baby hasn't come on his own, so today my wife is being induced. We're at the hospital and my wife is receiving pitocin via an IV and now we're just waiting...
How a geek handles pregnancy
#!/usr/bin/env python from datetime import date, timedelta conception_date = date(year=2008, month=11, day=2) today = date.today() babys_age = today - conception_date print "Baby's age" print " from conception" print " in days:...
USB device can fry a laptop?
This morning I was trying to pull data off an old 2.5" laptop ATA drive. I popped in a USB/Firewire enclosure and plugged it into my Mac. The Mac popped up a message saying it shut down that USB port because something was drawing...
Cottonwood nuisance
We just got finished with the annual falling of annoying "cotton" from nearby cottonwood trees. I hate this stuff. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23030157@N02/2557404338/ We do our best to sweep it up, but then it falls again....
Blast from the past: NPAC REU 1995
Was going through old files today and happened upon a bunch of content from 1995 - back when I was doing researchy stuff at LLNL in Livermore, California and NPAC in Syracuse, New York....
Beat Halo 3 on Legendary
I beat Halo 3 on Legendary yesterday. Woo hoo! Nothing that's never been said before -- Halo 3 is a great game, but the level "Cortana" is really fricking annoying. So many Flood, so little ammo, and so easy to get lost. Also,...