This is one seriously twisted practical joke.

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Hi. How are you?
Julien is now a second grader. At least insofar as he has successfully completed the first grade. To celebrate the end of a great school year, I took him to see Shrek 2 yesterday. I don’t know about him, but I loved it. And actually, I say that in jest - I […]

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I remember my friend Bob in Albuquerque had a monumental record collection. He had every album worth anything to anyone lined up there in old yellowing strips of torn endpapers with faded names. He was the guy who got me into Kerouac. He had this boxed set called The Jack Kerouac Collection. He didn’t own […]

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When Reginald was home with the flu, uh-huh-huh,
The doctor knew just what to do-hoo.
He cured the infection
With one small injection
While Reginald uttered some interjections…
Hey! That smarts!
Ouch! That hurts!
Yow! That’s not fair givin’ a guy a shot down there!
–Interjections from Grammar Rock

Ari had to get a shot in her butt. Apparently the nurse who gave her […]

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New baby! Hooray for new babies! Congratulations to Kevin and Jen and Max!

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By the way, I’m building my own Linux system from the ground up and I’ve started a new blog to chart my progress: /odd/linux. It’s got everything a good blog needs: sexual tension, high drama and betrayal! Ok no it doesn’t have any of that stuff. But it has configuration scripts and binary compilation stories! […]

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I was so wrapped up in everything that I forgot to publicly announce Ari’s birthday yesterday. I’m such a loser. She’s not as old as me, but she’s still old. We calculated the seconds with Julien last night, as in how many seconds we’ve all been alive. Gabriel has been alive for roughly 65,664,000 seconds; […]

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So the boys and I took Ari to the Ladybird Johnston Wildflower Center yesterday to celebrate Mother’s Day. It was beautiful, of course, but it’s not the wildflowers I want to tell you about. On our way to the center, we were listening to the radio and one of the commercials was for Fox 7 […]

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“One patron asked Dave as he was walking by one day if he had anything to do with the computers. Dave said yes, and the user thanked him for stopping the pop-up ads.”
Here’s a great story about how an entire county library system in Maryland (central location plus five branches) got kicked one too many […]

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Gabriel has been experiencing a minor developmental explosion. I have a feeling the next couple of weeks will be chock full of posts that begin something like, “You’ll never believe what he did today, oh my God!” (Okay no they won’t begin like that. If they ever begin like that, shoot me.)
One of Gabriel’s recent […]

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