We had another dry month as far as photos go, other than the trip to Madison this past Sunday. I took quite a number of photos over the past couple of days, which are available in this album along with a few others from earlier in the month.

I was explaining to Maggie this afternoon that a word is made of letters, a page contain words, and a book contains pages. Maggie looked at me and said, “Uh huh.” She thought for a few moments and then spoke the word “Pages” followed by the American Sign Language signs for together and [...]

In an earlier post, I mentioned that Joey, when asked what he wanted for lunch, responded, “Something yellow.” This use of language has expanded in interesting ways; Sometimes when he wants an object, rather than using its name directly, he creates a puzzle for my wife and I. For example, instead of asking [...]

My wife and I have real estate on our mind. After a few web searches, I found that there is a real estate website for Madison Wisconsin, FsboMadison, which has grown to dominate 20% of the market. The website allows potential buyers and sellers to find each other and avoid the high commisions [...]

We hopped in the car and traveled to Madison today. I’ve heard the city described as “Wisconsin’s San Francisco” or as “60 square miles surrounded by reality” but that didn’t scare me too much. It’s purported to be the most liberal place in the state, perhaps in the midwest, and the number of [...]

I first heard of the concept of “Carbon Footprint” while watching an episode of 30 Days - Off The Grid. I managed to find a calculator on the internet here hosted by safeclimate.net. After putting in some data, including the mileage my wife and I drive as well as the monthly use of [...]

I was just thinking about this today and thought it would be interesting to put my ideas together. I can’t go into the reason why this topic is on my mind right now, but hopefully will be able to in the near future.
I’ve always heard that people in mobs will do things collectively, i.e. [...]

Joey and Maggie are sitting at the kitchen playing with Play Doh. Joey has a tub of white and Maggie has a tub of purple. Maggie is staring intently at the table, shaping Play Doh into a row of small purple spheres.
Joey looks over and says, “Joey wants the purple Play Doh.”
Maggie responds, [...]

Back when I was in middle school, I would spend many days after school playing with the Apple IIs in the school’s library. (Yes, I was a geek even back in fifth grade.) One of the games that I would often try my hand at was Lemonade Stand. Now, Codenautics has provided [...]

I ran across this article by Mark Morford, a SF Gate Columnist, and thought it had a lot of good things to say about the relationship Americans have with work. Here is a quote from its opening paragraphs:

Work hard and the world respects you. Work hard and you can have anything you want. Work [...]