• I wasn’t there when it happened, but the story I heard is that the kids were riding in the car. The younger said “Baby Hungry”. The older looked at her mouth and scolded, “you’re not hungry. I can tell by…

  • About two months ago I started to tell my young son stories, to teach him the idea of narrative. The stories are almost always about a medium sized dog named Hades, who is extraordinarily clever for a dog. Hades lives…

  • We were visited by a female Bullock’s Oriole Icterus bullockii this evening, and the last.  She came to the feeder for the grape jelly.  I guess her kids eat like mine.  What a treat to see her.

  • The melody for Simple Gifts is one of my favorite, going back to Copland’s interpretation I heard on vinyl when I was small.  My son learned the song, to sing, in preschool this year. Since he likes the song I…

  • I made a print-and-cut clock for teaching my son to tell time with an analog clock.  It is linked here.  If you find it useful or have improvements please leave comments.

  • Most of these pictures were taken through a window, with insufficient telephoto and probably insufficient tripod use.  Nevertheless, you can tell what kind of bird they are, and for me that is interesting. With luck, I’ll update these with better…

  • Firstly, credit where it’s due; the pictures were taken by my friend Robert Hohlfelder.  The pictures were taken of a dollar bill from about 15 feet.  The camera was tripod-mounted, and the lenses with VR had it turned off.  The…

  • A friend of mine (thanks Marc!) forwarded the linked article to me last week.  While it is more of a coffee tease sort of thing than anything else, it just so happens that the article discusses the coffee/water ratio used…

  • My wife took the baby for a walk yesterday, when the weather was nice.  She grabbed a juniper berry while she was out, because its size was astonishing.   It is pictured below, sitting a US quarter dollar coin.

  • The latest version of Corel Paint Shop Pro is now apparently called PaintShop Photo Pro X3.  Perhaps they’ll eventually regret their ridiculous naming. Many things are the same since the previous version.  The obvious differences are that the menus have…

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