One of the most dramatic bits of flora in the Texas springtime is the redbud tree. While a there are a wide variety of plants that break forth into profligate bloom around this time of year, warming up with scales sung in pale green and eventually bursting full voice into florid arias of blue, purple, [...]
My friend Barry has a phenomenally active and sharp mind. While he composes and plays a variety of music for a living, he enjoys forays into nearly every other field of intellectual and artistic endeavor as well. We once whiled away a happy hour together playing with a program called Graphing Calculator which used to [...]
I thought I’d largely shaken my gaming bug for a while after leaving Origin, but the fact that I’ve asked my dear, long-suffering family for a Sony PSP for my upcoming birthday may indicate that I’m relapsing. Since one of my primary metrics for the utility of any piece of electronic gear is “Will it [...]
Today at work we launched the new Texas State University website. While the site looks pretty nice, you can’t really see a good number of the interesting bits I’ve worked on. Here are a few highlights of the new site: Events are automatically rendered both to the home page and to vCal files. This makes [...]
This Valentine’s Day, my friend Daniel earned himself a place high on my list of people to knock off violently and painfully. His offense? Setting the romance bar so ludicrously high that we — every single male on earth — looks boorish and unfeeling by comparison. You can read about it on Fanny’s weblog here, [...]
I have a treatise on making good salsa lurking at the back of my brain, to which some of my less-fortunate friends have already been subjected in fragmentary form over Mexican food. Until I get my magnum opus written up, however, I give you this — my favorite salsa recipe. The foundation of this green [...]
Friday’s court date went, for the most part, without incident. Of the three lawyers required for the process — one to represent me, one for Emily, and one for Emily’s biological father — one was apparently supposed to be selected from a list that the court maintains. Nobody was aware of the fact in advance, [...]
I’m afraid I’ve once again let my posting lapse, due to fairly overwhelming demands from real life. A few of the things competing for time: Our family has, over the past week, been playing host to the Streptococcal Follies. Liam is the only one who has made it through the last 7 days unscathed by [...]
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