Bearfruit

Last week, around May 2nd or 3rd, my daughter learned to crawl. It’s been a week so now she’s officially at that stage referred to as, “no really, don’t take your eyes off of her!”

So now I’ve got this challenge that so many people before me have faced. How to get her to be stationary for a little bit. This is my brief and whimsical diary of a few experiments.

OK, that subject line makes this sound more cool that it really is. The process was pretty simple. A little python script is attached that you can run locally. I’ll probably remake this in Javascript using a cool image based font that looks like the display on the speak and spell, but for now I just wanted to post this before I forgot about it. (I almost recycled it while cleaning off my desktop!)

Cats and Toilets

I think I’ve figured out why cats drink from the toilet. You see, when you feed a dog, he’ll clean the dish. Therefore you must feed him proper portions. Cats tend to be thrifty by nature. If you feed a cat, he’ll eat when he wants to, and just enough to satisfy himself. Therefore I’ve surmised that cats, being thrifty, drink from the toilet because they see it as a bountiful supply of water and are merely rationing their water bowl for that day that the toilet runs out. Quite brilliant.

Adobe has just released the Create Suite 3 product, but this time, with a new license!

I woke up today with “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” stuck in my head. I think that’s a foreboding sign. On an unrelated note, my cat disassembled a bird in my living room last night. That’s always a pretty sight to see when you walk down the stairs in the morning.

Starling news has just been uncovered, Ubuntu is now more famous than Jesus. Here is the graph from Google trends: (click for a larger version)

Note that point F says, “Mood a bit gloomy in town of Jesus’ birth.” I’m sure that’s because Jesus has just officially been eclipsed in search engine popularity by Ubuntu.

At bedtime the other night, my son announced he’d thought of the silliest name for a baby sister. He’s 6, so I was not expecting a ROFL, but I was surprised. I chuckle now just thinking about it.

I’ve never tried communicating second hand humor through a blog before, so I don’t know how well this will work. If it doesn’t sound funny to you after reading it, try saying it out loud, or imagine using it to address a young sibling, niece or daughter.
The silliest name for a baby sister (according to my son) is: Grandma.

How do you get to Dublin from New York? I don’t know.

Who do you ask when you don’t know? Google

Google, how do you get from New York to Dublin? (note step 23)

vongo - why won’t you let me see your website?
My wife said I have to checkout Vongo. Apparently you can’t even go to their website unless you’re using Windows XP or Vista. So I don’t have a clue what it is except that its something to do with Video. Seems pretty silly that you won’t even let people see your website. I wonder if they have something to hide.

Infinite Loop: Analyst weighs in on Leopard versus Vista sales

could we *please* put a lid on the “Apples are SOOOOOOO much more expensive” bs? It appears in every thread that deals with the Mac, and half of the ones that don’t … and it’s been debunked every time. It’s a troll, it’s wrong, and it’s boring