October 2007 Entries
I know everyone is dying to know how Miles is doing. Well, for starters, it turns out that he’s actually a she. Fortunately, she doesn’t seem to be at all offended at the sex change. Her future mama decided that a name change is also called for and thought that Milee might be appropriate. I’m not sure what you get when you cross Miles Vorkosigan with a god of war, but hey, she’s the one that has to live with the result. Milee is doing very well and has turned her ample energy to tormenting fighting tips out of Art...
I often wish that geeks had a better grasp of markets and applied logic. This thought returned recently when I read an article linked from someone I follow on twitter. David Pogue’s questions in his NY Times article are all interesting to be sure, but some of them aren’t really all that unanswerable. For fun, I’ll cherry-pick them for my own entertainment. Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels, but $14 a night at expensive ones? This one’s a softball. Free Wi-Fi will often be a deciding factor when choosing one cheap hotel over another whereas the deciding factor...
I take a risk in posting this because I don’t want it to get back to Cordy and I know some of my older kids might see it. I rely on their discretion. I hope they have some. At any rate, inspired by the book Dear Tooth Fairy (and largely copied from it), Cordelia decided she had found a great idea and wrote two letters she dutifully gave her mother this morning. I share the results with you here. (Clicking them will bring up a larger version.) Technorati tags: Personal, Family, Tooth Fairy
The main occupation of the family these days is the arrival of a bedraggled kitten. When found, he was barely two weeks old. A neighbor boy found him in a ditch that is now likely haunted by the ghosts of his siblings. He brought the poor thing to us. It’s flattering that we’re known in the neighborhood as people who can take care of distraught animals, actually (and will). Anyway, the veterinarian told us that he had only about a 50% chance of survival, particularly as he had an infection that could turn out to be...