Cyberzen Buzz

2009-12-27T15:55:00.000-08:00

Natalie had a great Christmas. Here she is sleeping with one of her toys at around midnight on Christmas night. I didn't even think to get any pictures of all the goings on with the firetrucks and firemen rushing in and out of the house. We watched until we saw a fireman rush out of the house, grab a chainsaw, and then run back into the house trying to start the chainsaw while he ran. After

2009-11-28T03:37:00.000-08:00

Rumor has it that Allen Iverson may be retiring? Watching this video of his rookie season helps put everything in perspective.

2009-11-10T23:15:00.000-08:00

Dub FX makes incredible music with only a bunch of pedals and his voice. Here's a video of him performing live - phenomenal!

2009-11-04T16:05:00.000-08:00

Henry Rollins was pretty intense even as a young buck.

2009-11-04T15:54:00.000-08:00

Careful with your Swine Flu vaccinations - BuzzTrends shows a potential B A D side effect.

2009-08-22T16:03:00.001-07:00

I've got the new site up and running at BuzzTrends. Here are a few entertaining searches: Global WarmingU.S. EconomyChinese EconomyCobra StarshipCobra StarshipKings of LeonThe site is written in Ruby using Sinatra and a number of other gems.

2009-07-19T22:16:00.000-07:00

Blackie went to the gym and played some basketball today.

2009-07-18T22:15:00.000-07:00

Blackie played tennis today.

2009-07-17T22:12:00.000-07:00

Blackie went adventuring to the volcano today.

2009-07-16T22:11:00.000-07:00

Blackie came to work with me today.

2009-07-15T22:05:00.000-07:00

Jen took all 3 kids up to Vermont to visit her good friend Alana. The kids did great on the flight out and are having a great time. Finger's crossed that the same is true on the return trip.

2009-07-11T22:45:00.000-07:00

The Kiddies having fun at Hill Air Force Museum.

2009-07-11T21:59:00.000-07:00

I took the kids up to Logan, UT, for a couple of nights. We frequented the local parks and the hotel swimming pool ( 5 times! ). We stayed up late watching movies both nights and had a blast ;)

2009-07-04T21:22:00.000-07:00

The local neighborhood 4th of July parade was, as usual, a fun day for all - but mostly for the kids ;)

2009-07-04T21:17:00.000-07:00

We've got to set off some of our own fireworks on the 4th of July!

2009-07-01T21:11:00.000-07:00

The kids got all painted up at the 2009 Salt Lake City Art's Festival!

2009-06-29T21:03:00.000-07:00

I had a great Father's Day - thanks to a great family!

2009-06-28T21:08:00.000-07:00

Moira's 7th Birthday party. She had a magician and a treasure hunt - also had a fantastic time!

2009-06-16T00:08:00.000-07:00

OK - this is real - it is the Milky Rising in the night sky. The camera has some filters on it, but what it shoots is real. To quote the photographer: "Contrast and brightness have been increased to make the Milky Way more stunning in the video. However, standing in the field at the Texas Star Party with dark-adapted eyes with the Milky Way overhead is a very stunning experience. Many

2009-06-14T15:59:00.000-07:00

A Rock-Hunting Sunday outing with Mom.

2009-06-14T15:54:00.000-07:00

Playtime with friends...

2009-06-14T15:45:00.000-07:00

05/19/2009 Moira's Silly Hair day at school.

2009-06-14T15:40:00.000-07:00

05/15/2009 Adventuring around the block.

2009-06-14T15:34:00.000-07:00

05/11/2009 On mars at the Hanson Planetarium.

2009-06-14T15:33:00.000-07:00

05/11/2009 Red Butte Garden with Bruce and Laurel - Panoramic.

2009-06-14T15:31:00.000-07:00

05/03/2009 Moira and Nathan cold chillin' at Barnes and Noble.

2009-06-14T15:24:00.000-07:00

4/18/2009 Out at the Hill Airfield Museum with Natalie and Nathan.

2009-06-14T15:23:00.000-07:00

4/6/2009 Natalie with Sheba.

2009-06-14T15:19:00.000-07:00

4/3/2009 Family out at the Jazz Game.

2009-06-14T15:14:00.000-07:00

03/21/2009 Moira's poetry recital.Snail by Langston Hughes-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Little SnailDreaming you goWeather and roseIs all you know

2009-06-14T15:11:00.000-07:00

3/21/2009 Nathan and Natalie at the park.

2009-06-14T15:10:00.000-07:00

I went into work a little bit late and had a nice breakfast with Nathan and Jenny ( taking the shot below... )

2009-06-14T15:00:00.000-07:00

3/19/2009 Crazy Hat Walk.

2009-06-13T17:22:00.000-07:00

Natalie's 4th Birthday.

2009-06-13T17:18:00.000-07:00

Game Day at Nathan's School.

2009-06-13T17:12:00.000-07:00

Lower Elementary Moab Camping Trip - part 4.

2009-06-13T17:09:00.000-07:00

Lower Elementary Moab Camping Trip - part 3.

2009-06-13T17:07:00.000-07:00

Lower Elementary Moab Camping Trip - part 2.

2009-06-13T17:05:00.000-07:00

Lower Elementary Moab Camping Trip.

2009-06-13T17:00:00.000-07:00

Moira's silly hair day at school.

2009-06-13T16:58:00.000-07:00

This just in...kids love having their faces painted!

2009-06-13T16:55:00.000-07:00

The kids got their own garden in the backyard and they love it!

2009-06-02T09:04:00.001-07:00

I always forget this classic bit from Monty Python's The Holy Grail...here it is in all of its glory!Armaments 2:9-21...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and

2008-10-04T15:06:00.001-07:00

I submitted this to 24 Hour Fitness regarding 3v3 basketball tournament.I'd like to thank you first of all for hosting a 3v3 basketball tournament today. It was a good opportunity to get out and play some basketball.However, I'm outraged by the fact that an exceptionally hard foul has left my teammate, Dustin, with a broken jaw and shattered tooth. The player who inflicted the foul was out of

2008-10-04T14:02:00.001-07:00

Learning how to sue some one.Just played in a 3v3 basketball tournament at 24-hour fitness @ 5700 South and 900 East here in Salt Lake City. It was myself and the brothers Fox: Corbin, Ryan and Dustin. Dustin organized it and we were all excited to be playing some ball - we're not too serious about it.So, in the first game we play I'm back behind the 3-point line and Dustin drives baseline for

2008-10-04T13:59:00.000-07:00

Nathan having better luck with Seizures the last week.After having a couple of weeks with 5 or 6 seizures a day, this past week has been awesome with only 1 or 2 seizures a day, and the last 3 days have been completely seizure free. We've lowered Nathan's Keppra to 4.5 ml (from 5 ml) and he has been taking lots of fish oil and eating a largely gluten-free diet.It's pretty evident ( in my mind,

Survival

2008-09-25T20:03:00.001-07:00

This is spot on. clipped from lee.org

2008-08-03T00:47:00.001-07:00

Seizure update - Nathan had been on Keppra for about two weeks and it wasn't controlling his seizures ( he was still having them ) so were instructed to start him on Phenobarbital. Now, this somehow landed us in the hospital to give him a big loading dose and get him switched to this from Keppra. Well, the switch from Keppra didn't happen and we left the hospital 3 days later with him now on

2008-08-03T00:43:00.000-07:00

Apparently the Kings of Pluto have left on their journey to Earth and are updating their site with material en route. I see that they have posted some sneak preview lyrics to the title track of their (Earthly) debut album Civilization For Dummies. Stoked!

2008-07-07T00:07:00.000-07:00

My son, Nathan, is 22 months old now and has just last night and then again today had some short-lived seizure type of episodes. He sorta goes "absent" for 10-15 seconds and then comes out of it a little bit spacey, or sometimes comes out of it a little bit hyper.We're out of town ( visiting Arcada, California ) and had a trip to the ER today - they found nothing much and honestly didn't give

2008-05-26T23:43:00.000-07:00

Reason 3: Ruby is better than JavaMixins.I've become very accustomed to using lots and lots of Composition in the Javaworld. Spending an Object's inheritance isn't anything to trifle over, afterall. Ruby mixins allow for a sort of pseudo-multiple-inheritance, where you can add implementations to classes without having to subclass. You can even add the mixin functionality into existing (core)

2008-05-26T23:19:00.001-07:00

Reason 2: Ruby is better than JavaProfiling.With Java you have to use a 3rd party framework to get any useful profiling information. There are some good ones out there, but regardless, this is again a big production. Without a profiling tool, this information is next to impossible to gather.With Ruby, you just run your program with command line "-r profile" and you get a comprehensive dump of

2008-05-26T23:14:00.000-07:00

Reason 1: Ruby is better than JavaThe ThreadLocal concept is part of the Thread object in Ruby. Just use Thread.current["myVariable"] to access the variable. In Java, this is a big production. Creating a ContextHolder which extends ThreadLocal and then creating a getter and setter for the value you want to keep ThreadLocal.Score 1 for Ruby...

2008-03-21T20:35:00.000-07:00

Ashley, my niece from Tennessee, has been visiting with us this past week and we've been having a blast. Moira is just completely ga-ga for Ashley. We went up to Brighton for some fun skiing the other day and I managed to catch a bit of it on video. Feast your eyes...

2008-03-17T21:35:00.001-07:00

If I ever get a huge, robotic spider-dog, I hope that it's something like this huge, robotic spider-dog!

2008-03-09T22:04:00.001-07:00

Natalie's 3rd Birthday - Natalie got two cakes this time around - lucky girl!The cake she got with the fam: The cake she got at her party:

2008-03-09T21:24:00.001-07:00

Moira's really liking her Karate class. She's so excited to go to her next class now that she's an Orange belt. Here's some of her moves and also evidence that the messages they teach in class are sticking with her:Here are some of her Orange belt moves: Moira is learning some good stuff at class - we never practice this 'mantra' at home :)

2008-02-17T14:56:00.000-08:00

Here's a really touching video of a balloon artist at a nursing home. Nothing gimmicky just authentic goodness and happiness. Very refreshing ;)

2008-02-09T17:08:00.000-08:00

Moira went to her first Karate competition and came home with a trophy. Everybody who went got to pick a trophy - her's was about 3x bigger than I'd imagine the biggest one would have been ;)

2008-02-09T17:07:00.000-08:00

So, sometimes all the kids end up in a great big box - it's just a fact of life.

2008-01-22T15:52:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul.

2008-01-22T12:52:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul.

2007-11-14T22:15:00.001-08:00

2007-11-08T23:38:00.001-08:00

Ron Paul Girl tells it like it is.

Ron Paul car top sign

2007-11-08T23:22:00.001-08:00

Went in on this illuminated cartop sign with some coworkers - hopefully people will start looking at it sometime soon. I swear, people look away whenever it enters their visual field :(Powered by ScribeFire.

A creative jackolantern

2007-11-08T23:04:00.001-08:00

2007-11-06T23:35:00.000-08:00

Nathan really loves Cooper ( as did both Moira and Natalie ). He's got Cooper so into playing ball that Cooper looks like a puppy again ;)

2007-11-06T23:32:00.000-08:00

Alex, Giles, Izzy, Niko, Moira and Natalie get ready to hit the neighborhood up for treats.Natalie is stoked to have the routine down.Back at home the kids ease into some candy.

2007-11-06T07:27:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween. Moira with two of her teachers (Ms Ruby and Ms Jessica). Moira is a swashbuckling pirate and Natalie is a little bunny.

2007-11-06T07:25:00.000-08:00

Nathan is walking up a storm nowadays.

2007-11-05T22:20:00.000-08:00

A couple shots of Nathan (14 months old) from the past few months. I'll get some new ones up soon of him walking. Moira and Natalie have lots of fun playing with this little guy ;)

2007-11-05T22:16:00.000-08:00

Moira and I got away the other day and chilled out at a lazy creek. We also made this silly video while we were there.

2007-11-05T22:09:00.000-08:00

A snowy October day up Millcreek Canyon.

2007-11-05T22:04:00.000-08:00

Can you read the writing between the (hash brown) lines?

2007-11-04T23:12:00.001-08:00

I've started work on a new site to discuss, compare, and benchmark Java open source projects. I'm hosting the effort over at Javatech.org - so take a look sometime and lmkwyt.

2007-10-27T01:11:00.000-07:00

More Thanksgiving 2004...

2007-10-27T01:09:00.000-07:00

Bun-bun comes to Dearborn St - one month at a time

2007-10-27T01:07:00.000-07:00

Nathan at 3 months old

2007-10-27T01:05:00.000-07:00

Natalie and Cooper catch a bit of quality time during Moira's 5th birthday party.

2007-10-27T01:04:00.000-07:00

Moira's 5th Birthday Party

2007-10-27T01:02:00.000-07:00

Moira's first day of Kindergarten. Natalie is loving the excitement, too!

2007-10-27T01:01:00.000-07:00

Natalie with her first ever guitar. The other side has strings!!!

2007-10-27T00:57:00.000-07:00

A snowy hike with nathan at 4 months old

2007-10-27T00:56:00.000-07:00

Natalies's 2nd birthday

2007-10-27T00:53:00.000-07:00

Natailie's second birthday

2007-10-27T00:52:00.000-07:00

Our biggest snowman to date - 3/4/2007

2007-10-27T00:49:00.000-07:00

Nathan and I videotaping the 2007 Easter Egg Hunt.

2007-10-27T00:48:00.000-07:00

Babies need baths - Natalie, Moira, then Nathan

2007-10-27T00:41:00.000-07:00

Tennessee Cabin Trip - October 2005

2007-10-27T00:38:00.000-07:00

Tennessee Cabin Trip - October 2005

2007-10-27T00:35:00.000-07:00

ORHS - The next generation...

2007-10-27T00:33:00.000-07:00

Ice Cream with Roman

2007-10-27T00:31:00.000-07:00

Natalie...

2007-10-27T00:27:00.000-07:00

Natalie is 5 months old - 8/5/2005

2007-10-27T00:25:00.000-07:00

A wild and happy day.

2007-10-27T00:19:00.000-07:00

Moira making Natalie as comfy as comfy can be...

2007-10-27T00:16:00.000-07:00

A brief glimpse into Moira's "Yellow" period...

2007-10-27T00:12:00.000-07:00

No, we didn't sense the imminent danger...

2007-10-27T00:10:00.000-07:00

And then it snowed on Thanksgiving ( 2004)

2007-10-27T00:07:00.000-07:00

Thanksgiving 2004 - Mom and Dad out to visit us in Salt Lake.