Moana? As good as advertised. Also, feels weirdly like a corporate challenge to a duel between new-Pixar-flavored-Disney and old Disney. Or the end of a duel? It was the "you're a princess, right?" / "same thing" conversation between Moana (new Disney) and Maui (old Disney) that really slapped me in the face with it ( Read more... )

I've been taking Japanese lessons for about six months now, as part of the new job ( Read more... )

Oh hey - here I am making cranberries sauce the easy nuke-cranberries-repeatedly way, and we have an open bottle of Gewurtztraminer sitting around.

You may call it "adding any available booze to anything that isn't nailed down." But I, my friend, call it fate(I'll let you know if it comes out well ( Read more... )

I'm off to RubyConf in Cincinnati. So expect slow responses from me until Sunday at the earliest ( Read more... )

Have you seen the Basic Instructions comic on the Beegees? Do.

I'm just gonna leave that link there.

I feel like I should mention this loudly and publicly: Doctor Paul Turek, operating out of SF and LA, is absolutely phenomenal. I don't have anything else for him to do right now, but I have only very good things to say about everything he's done for me so far ( Read more... )

Depression is an older friend than I let on. We still pretend not to recognize each other on the street.

Was thinking about language today. Learning Japanese does that, sometimes ( Read more... )

A random note: I give my kids a lot of sugar. Just sayin'.


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Krissy and I have been talking about having another kid. No, we're not pregnant yet. We won't be for awhile yet, even if everything lines up perfectly.

But... I have been doing Krissy a disservice in how I've talked about this. So I'll talk about that disservice, and why we're having another kid, and a bit of the logistics. No, not that part of ( Read more... )