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Birth!
I write this entry while sitting next to my sleeping son, who six days ago surprised us, by being born a little over 6 weeks early. There are not enough words in either Armenian or English to adequately describe the emotions that my wife and I have experienced through the beginning of this adventure, but I'll do my best ( Read more... ) -
Politics '12
I don't like discussing politics, and so I rarely make public posts regarding the topic. However, today, I dealt with a situation on a social network that required additional commentary. If you aren't interested in reading about my view on politics, and/or specifically, the topic as it pertains to the current election cycle in the US, feel free to ( Read more... ) -
Nesting
The Verona I had this afternoon is keeping me awake so I decided to make a very overdue post ( Read more... ) -
Inspiration from a jump rope
I'm still sore ( Read more... ) -
New York City
Two weekends ago, for our first wedding anniversary, Sheena and I took the train to Manhattan. We had a fantastic time, and the following is a set of what I think are the best photos from the weekend.
Midtown Manhattan from the Empire State Building
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Finding Happiness
Yesterday, after helping with the MINIs On Top packing party, I came home, and for the first time in months spent hours tidying up my workspace. It felt absolutely wonderful when I was finished ( Read more... ) -
Morning Routine
"So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of maximizing our creative-problem-solving capacities?
We’d set the alarm a few minutes early and lie awake in bed, following our thoughts where they lead (with a pen and paper nearby to jot down any evanescent inspirations). We’d stand a little longer under the warm ( Read more... ) -
228 Days
As the subject of this entry suggests, it’s been 228 days since I last wrote in this journal; how disappointing. However, in perspective to time within the universe, 228 days isn’t much, but in a human’s lifetime, so much can change, and in this segment of time, so much has changed, yet so little has changed. Confused yet ( Read more... ) -
Code!
For a while now, I’ve been alluding to working on a project without providing any details on what it is. I figured that it’s about time I mention something a bit more concrete to my only real on-line thought repository ( Read more... ) -
The Clarity of Mind?
While reviewing code this afternoon, for a personal project that I’m working on, I realized that I had already solved a problem that I had been struggling with for a couple of weeks. The reason I felt compelled to write about it here is because I occasionally encounter moments like these, especially when working on a technical problem ( Read more... )