It bugs me that some of my best writing is on Facebook where only a few friends will see it. So let me elevate this comment, which was in response to my friend Charlie. He started out with this question, regarding the particle/wave duality of light:
You can measure a wave and you can measure a particle - how can something be both?
My reply:
You just have to squint at it at the right angle.
It's like one of those pictures that is a duck that turns into a rabbit if you look at it long enough. What is it a picture of? A duck? No, it's a rabbit. A rabbit? No, it's a duck.
A duckrabbit? Now you're getting closer...
My 4yo says it looks like a rabbit that looks like a duck. My 2yo says it's a duck, and when I tried to point out how it looks like a rabbit, and asked him if he saw the rabbit, he said "I can't find it!"
"...because a lot of people will tell you not to dedicate your life to this."
This is a great story about a young Spanish luthier just taking up the trade:
Alma (Spanish with English subtitles) from Kauri Multimedia on Vimeo.
"This initial passion needs to be encouraged and maintained. It's like being with a woman. If you are not prepared to work and move forward you will quickly decide to change and move on."
My four year old daughter is jumping around, excited about making cookies, because she just woke up and had a dream about making cookies. I explained we had to wait until Mommy and Daddy were ready to make cookies, and why don't you go eat some breakfast while you wait? She said "Dad, I'm not hungry for breakfast! I'm hungry for cookies!"
Update, later in the day: My daughter just ran in the room and said "Daaaaaad! Mom says that grapes are plants," in a tone of voice that indicated that her mother could quite possibly be the stupidest person on the planet for believing such a thing.
"Honey, grapes are plants." I said. She suddenly looked at me like I had two heads. "What do you think grapes are, honey?" I asked gently.
"Grapes are food," she said forcefully.
"Hmmm. Look, you remember the sugar peas in our garden, right? They're vines, growing on the fence. Now, are peas plants?"
"Yes."
"But you ate some yesterday. Are peas food?"
Pause. "Yes! Peas are food AND plants!"
"So what are grapes?"
"Grapes are plants... AND food!" Long pause while this sinks in. "I HAVE TO GO TELL MOM!"
My wife finally got her book up on Amazon!
It's called The Naturally Frugal Baby: Financial Survival Strategies and Tactics for Having a Baby without Going Broke. This is the Second Edition (the first edition was only available on Lulu.com) and has been extensively updated and revised. Yay for Amazon!
If you'd rather have bits instead of atoms, you can still get it in e-Book form from Lulu.com. You can get the book cheaper from Lulu.com as well, but as Peggy points out, if you take advantage of free shipping from Amazon it works out to be about the same price either way.
[UPDATE]: The best review yet comes from my friend Mike on Facebook, who shared the link and commented: "I'M NOT HAVING A BABY. My friend's wife wrote a book about making and raising babies on a budget, and since many of the people on my FB are hellbent on breeding, I'm posting the link."
My car is in the shop for some transmission work (yeah, I know, FUN), and in a spectacular display of timing we just donated our previous car to Minnesota Teen Challenge. So I'm carless and my friend Nathan has been giving me rides. Nathan listens to 89.3 The Current, which I don't usually bother with because they are too eclectic and they probably aren't going to play my current favorite guilty obsession songs.
A song came up. Everything is Everything by Booker T. Jones. You may remember Booker T. Jones as the front man for Booker T. and the MGs:
I recognized the organ sound immediately, and looked up at the new foofy radio in Nathan's car, which, though some wizardry, it was displaying the song, 10 characters at a time. It took 45 seconds to display the whole song name.
As soon as I got home I bought the song on iTunes. So there you go Marketers: a little piece of completely uncollectible market data for you.
And for everyone else, here is the song, which rules:
I set up a new weblog. This is it, you're reading it. I moved my old weblog and you can read that too if you want. The new blog has pullquotes, which I'm sure you're all excited about.
"Hey I installed new blog software" is pretty boring, so here's a picture of a snail on a basketball:
[UPDATE: I can see I need to do some things to enable commenting. Hang on that might take a while but I'll get there, I promise.]
[UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Commenting is enabled, just register an account. No, I don't know how to enable comments from unregistered users.]
To enable comments from unregistered users, you need to give those users permission to comment... so look at the permissions page and take a look at what roles have the ability to comment.
If you need an anti-comment-spam module, take a look at Mollom.
I'll leave anonymous comments on for now and if it causes any problems I'll either add a moderation step or disable them altogether.
Really you should be creating accounts with the handy links in the side bar over there! Then you can log in and not worry about it.
Wow. I just read the saga of your orders for the Stella amp. I was one of those orders. I heard about the kit from the Make Magazine link. It sounded great, and I thought I could use it with the telecaster style guitar that I built last year. I finished soldering all the components last night and found an old speaker lying around. I tested it this morning, and it sounds great. As soon as I get my hands on a better speaker, I'm going to build a nice wood cabinet to put it in. I'll try post some pictures when I'm finished.
You know why this is awesome? My next project is going to be a telecaster!
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