A train
31 Oct ‘07, 7.15pm PDT PST: by
ccreitz
Dante is riding one!
Archive for October 2007
Quake
Some of you may have heard that we had a moderately strong magnitude 5.6 quake centered right under San Jose on 30 Oct. Like (happily) everyone else, we’re all fine, none the worse for the experience. In fact, it was kind of a fun ride! But the long-distance capacity of the phone network was strained, so we couldn’t make calls to let everyone know what had happened. So I have turned to the Internet to let everyone know that Dante rode the whole thing out in style, camped out with me and his mom under a doorway.
We has a leaf!
15 Oct ‘07, 10.38am PDT PST: by
ccreitz
Petroglyphs National Monument, near Albuquerque, NM.
Is there a fourth option?
14 Oct ‘07, 6.55pm PDT PST: by
ccreitz
At the Bradbury Museum, Los Alamos, NM. Text: “Which of the following is most dangerous? Touching Plutonium / Swallowing Plutonium / Inhaling Plutonium”
Coach Belichick called
13 Oct ‘07, 12.14pm PDT PST: by
ccreitz
He wants his outfit back before game day, OK?
Hybrid children watch the sea
You got your Yoda in my Cthulhu!
A new batch of pictures is up, covering the last month or so. This is my favorite, as it shows off Dante’s recently acquired “smiling” skill, and also the awesome calamara-cephalic hat that our crafty friend Jenn was kind enough to knit for him… and, as if that weren’t enough, there’s also his Yoda robe. So cute.
For friends and family looking for baby pix, Dante features in a few moblog entries, like this one, featuring Dante wearing an outfit that says “Baby” on it. This is so users know that he is a baby. My dad pointed out an interface problem, though: when you bathe a baby, you almost always remove its clothing. How, then, does such a label enable you to distinguish baby from bathwater?
A week later, we received a bathrobe, also featuring the legend “Baby” on it, which goes about halfway to a solution.
Fully operational
“As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now
witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!”
Google Maps has just put up Street Level images for Pittsburgh, PA, and my friend Brian discovered evidence that the next-generation weather control laser, which the University of Pittsburgh has been developing for years, has now gone into production mode. Mounted to the 42-story Cathedral of Learning on the Pitt campus, it is the first weapon capable of dispersing Pittsburgh’s persistent (some would say “constant”) cloud cover. It is also capable of vaporizing a human target in orbit, which will be handy when Space Hitler inevitably returns. Critics have complained about the expense of the project, pointing out that there are plenty of other skyscraper-based death rays, but proponents emphasize that none match the Pitt device for energy density, total photon flux, or appetizing pierogie aroma.