Who are you related to? I’m just thrilled I’m related to Jodi.
Author: Kevin Lawver
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It’s Nice to Be Needed
It’s always nice to come in first thing Monday morning to almost 100 pieces of e-mail in my inbox. And that’s AFTER going through about 50 on Saturday afternoon. It’s nice to be needed.
In other news that’s completely unrelated, I am about to be 5-0 in Fantasy Football. My team doesn’t score the most points, but it does a good job of playing up to the competition. As long as Jim Miller doesn’t blow it, and Ahman Green doesn’t go nuts, I’m safe (I have a 40 point lead going into tonight’s game).
It makes me wish I put money in the pool.
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That’s One Creepy Hippo
Browsing around the Mirror Project, I came across this site, which has the creepiest photo of a hippo I’ve ever seen. Great shot.
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Birthday Photos
So, my submission to The Mirror Project was accepted. I’m really happy with the picture and how it turned out.
In other photographic news, Max’s birthday pics are up! We had a great time, and better yet, Max had a ball. We watched Monsters Inc., played around a lot and had a lot of fun. We let Max stay up late and he slept in until almost NINE this morning.
I’m still recovering…
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Obsessive Parents Unite!
In the spirit of documentation, here are even more pictures! As a little birthday treat, we took Max to Chuck E. Cheese. I’m not sure who had more fun.
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Photographic Evidence
I told you about it before, now I have photographic evidence to share. Today, my son turns three. Three years ago we were in the hospital, nervous, full of anticipation and ready to welcome him into the world. I love him more than I can say, and his mother more than I’ll ever be able to express. Happy birthday, little man!
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Five… Four… Three… Two… One… BLASTOFF!!
Max got his hair cut today. Jen took him in, and in the heat of the moment had them cut off almost all his hair! He has a quarter of an inch left all around (or less). It’s really cute, but makes him look so much older! He already looks like he’s four, but the hair makes him look like he belongs in Kindergarten. Then, he opens his mouth and out comes his practically (Friday) three year-old babble and that makes it that much cuter!
Jen had a thing at church tonight, so Max and I played. We played rocketship on our bed. Max steered and provided the countdown while I provided the rumbly rocket noises, status updates and turbulence. It was hilarious. Then, we played Leap-Daddy, came downstairs and played Jak and Daxter, changed a diaper, read a story, tucked him in and came downstairs. He’s so much fun.
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Geek Tip of the Day
If you create a database, don’t expect it to live forever. Always keep a backup of at least your schema, and preferrably your data. After having experienced a total data loss, I’m at least reassured that I kept my schema on a system other than the one the database was running on. I had to recreate all my tables and indexes, but thankfully I’d saved them offline and it was as simple as cutting and pasting. Now, if only I had backed up my data…
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Booooooomtown Homirobbery Division
We watched two new cop shows this weekend, Robbery Homicide Division and Boomtown. First, Robbery Homicide Division was ok. It’s better than CSi, but far worse than any of the Law & Order series or NYPD Blue. The weird part is it’s hard to nail down what’s wrong with it. LA is ripe for a good cop show. All the other good cop series on TV are in New York, and LA has enough crime to accomodate several shows, don’t you think? Tom Sizemore was good. The production quality was good. I think it was just a little too easy, even though the end tried to be all indy-film bad news, it didn’t quite live up. There was nothing that made me really care about what was going on. It was just OK.
Boomtown is another story. Written by Graham Yost, who adapted Band of Brothers for HBO, this is going to be a good show. The storytelling method isn’t as revolutionary as the reviewers have made it out to be, but it is an interesting way to introduce all the characters and give the whole picture of the crime. Again, this show is set in LA, and they did a good job of highlighting the fact they were in LA without relying on the landmarks everyone knows (the Hollywood sign, LAX, etc). It was very well acted, even Jason Gedrick, which surprised me. Definitely worth watching. Hopefully, the rest of the season will match up to the Pilot.