Here are some new words Gabriel would like you to add to your dictionary when you get a second: Blacuum (the big noisy thing that mommy uses to suck up all the dirt on the carpet (it just so happens that ours is black, too, so this new word is doubly handy)); cruck (as in […]

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Our precious cat has murdered another bird. Not another yellow one, though. This time it was a tiny, grayish-brownish birdy. Cat tried to bring it into the house, but fortunately the bird was still chirping. Otherwise cat might’ve hauled it into the closet and ripped its guts out all over our shoes. But Ari heard […]

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“Please do not rub bacon in your hair.”
The words themselves aren’t so bad. The circumstances that forced me to utter them, however, are.
This kid is so freaking “two”.

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So Ari and I were working in the office late last night, her at her computer and me at mine. Ari started getting droopy around midnight and so she was smart and headed off to bed. Me, I was not smart and since her computer was free, and since her computer is the one connected […]

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We’ve had so much rain lately. And it’s been so cool. This time last year it was already pretty hot. This year it’s like paradise. Our backyard is so overgrown and lush. I mowed a little over a week ago and the grass has already become long and scraggly again. It’s like Eden. Only without […]

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So in Home Depot’s big orange book of Home Improvement (required reading for first-time homebuyers), there’re instructions for installing a roof-mounted attic vent. This requires cutting a hole in your roof, which makes sense when you think about it. I mean, how else would the air get out?
Anyway, I bought a motorized attic fan suited […]

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It’s hard to believe, but it’s true: Gabriel’s two. (I’m suddenly feeling tremendous pressure to continue the rhyme, but I must resist.) These two years have been much different than Julien’s first two. For Julien, we scrutinized everything. Every little coo and woo and waa was elevated to the highest priority level. But with Gabriel, […]

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I have successfully compiled Apache 2, mod_perl2 and PHP 4.3.5 all by myself. While I love PHP and never plan to part with it, I must agree with a dude in a forum somewhere that “PHP is dependency hell.” The number of libs and devels needed to successfully compile PHP is astounding. Well, at first […]

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Wow. There’s been a lot of movement around here lately. It’s kinda fun. First, we changed hosts. We’d been with addr.com since the dawn of time, or at least since the dawn of our domain. From 1994 to 2000, I’d only ever had university accounts. I think my first url was http://www.unm.edu/~mickeyb. Then I got […]

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This is hilarious and beautiful and holy all at the same time: Beatallica, a Metallica-style Beatles cover band (via Matt). “Hey, dude it’z true not sad / Take a thrash song and make it better / Remembah! That metal iz in your heart / Then you can start to be a fretter”.

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