Category Archives: Holidays & Special Occasions

Happy Birthday, Sesame Street!

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If I were to rank the TV shows I spend the most time watching, Sesame Street — or, as Loyette calls it, “Fi-Fi!!!” — would probably be second only to “assorted live sporting events” (if that even counts as a show). Such is the life of a parent of an almost-two-year-old. 🙂 As a result, I tend to get random… Read more »

Happy Halloween!

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Notwithstanding the scary events that transpired up in Oregon, I had a great Halloween. Loyette went trick-or-treating for the first time — she was a pirate — and seemed to enjoy herself a lot. (She also loved helping us give candy to the neighborhood kids.) Loyacita came along for the ride in the Baby Bjorn, dressed as a tiger. Both… Read more »

Oh, the weather outside is frightful…

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Via @denverpost a few minutes ago: “According to the roof of The Denver Post building, 11.25 inches of snow fell here so far today.” And there’s more coming tomorrow. Quite a bit more. Welcome to October in Colorado: Note the Halloween decorations on the front porch of the house at right. Heh. The fake spider webs blend right in with… Read more »

Arrr.

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Just a quick reminder for all ye land-lubbers who don’t go surrrrrfing the Interwebs on weekends: tomorrow be Talk Like a Pirate Day! P.S. If you want to tweet like a pirate, you can use this auto-tweeting translator. And be sure to tag your tweets with #yarr, so they’ll show up on TweetLikeAPirate.com. For another (non-tweeting) English-to-pirate-speak translator, go here…. Read more »

That’s the way it was

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As you probably already know, today is the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing — arguably mankind’s greatest achievement (though, as Conan O’Brien pointed out, putting cheese inside the pizza crust is surely a close second). In honor of the anniversary, Mac OS X, iPhone and iPod touch users can download Carina’s SkyGazer astronomy application, free for today only…. Read more »

Fun with consecutive integers!

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If you’re like me, and you missed 12:34:56 7/8/09 in your time zone, here’s your chance to catch it again… in the Pacific Time Zone: UPDATE: Clock removed, because the hour has now passed. Here’s a screenshot for posterity:

Happy 4th of July!

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Hope you’re all having a great holiday weekend. Here’s a photo from today’s ingenious Stapleton 4th of July parade, in which the “floats” are the strollers and bicycles of the neighborhood’s abundant kiddo population: This evening, we’ll head to Becky’s cousin’s barbecue, and then hopefully catch some fireworks. Happy Birthday, America! P.S. No baby yet. 🙂 P.P.S. With apologies to… Read more »