Via Kathryn Cramer (on Facebook, of all places), an article from the Daily Mail about how kids these days don’t get around much: When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he… Continue reading How Far Did You Roam as a Child?
Category: Personal
Eating Without Pain in Grad School
Over at Neurotopia, the Evil Monkey is offering advice on how to earn extra money in graduate school: The key to more than mere culinary survival in graduate school is to volunteer for research studies. I took part in more projects than I could count. Some don’t pay squat. I once spent 2 hours a… Continue reading Eating Without Pain in Grad School
Belated Baby Blogging 012309
Baby Blogging is late this week, because SteelyKid has come down with the cold virus that’s going around the JCC day care center. Snotty, crying, coughing babies aren’t all that photogenic. I finally got a decent picture of her emerging from her sling after a two-hour nap: It’s a little tough to say whether the… Continue reading Belated Baby Blogging 012309
The Joys of Day Care
SteelyKid is now in day care five days a week. This is good for us, in that it lets Kate and I both go back to work full-time, and good for her, in that she gets to meet new people, and spend the whole day playing with interesting toys. Of course, it has its bad… Continue reading The Joys of Day Care
Andrew Wyeth
Arts & Letters Daily has an item announcing the death of Andrew Wyeth (the link goes to the New York Times obit). This is noteworthy to me because he’s one of a very few artists whose work (in poster form) has ever hung on my wall. Specifically, this painting, titled “Soaring”: I picked it up… Continue reading Andrew Wyeth
Uncomfortable Question: Fatherhood
In response to my call for uncomfortable questions, Ewan goes for the jugular: what do you think your biggest failing as a father has been to date? See, this is the sort of thing I’m talking about… The answer is “I get frustrated too easily.”
Hey Hey 2009
2008 was a rotten year for a lot of people, I know, but I’ll always have a soft spot for it, because it marked the beginning of the SteelyKid Era. There was plenty that sucked about 2008, but not nearly enough to outweigh that. (There will be Baby Blogging later today, but the Empress of… Continue reading Hey Hey 2009
The Year in Cities
This is going around again (I think Kottke is Patient Zero), so here’s a list of places where I spent at least one night in 2008 (other than Niskayuna, where we live): Albany, NY (I spent four nights in a smoking room– I get to count it on the list) Boston, MA Lewisburg, PA State… Continue reading The Year in Cities
Jiggitty Jig
We’re home again, at last. Actually, the power came on not quite 24 hours ago, but by the time we learned it was back, we were settled in for the night at the hotel. And it would’ve taken several hours for the house to warm back up from its sub-40-Fahrenheit temperature to a temperature at… Continue reading Jiggitty Jig
Ice Storms and Liberal Guilt
We’re into our third day without power at Chateau Steelypips, and as a result, the household has temporarily been relocated to a hotel near SUNY Albany. National Grid says probably Tuesday, but they really don’t know when they’ll get our electricity back. This is, of course, deeply annoying, but it feels sort of churlish to… Continue reading Ice Storms and Liberal Guilt