JASon on March 20th, 2007

Coffee shop anyone?

JASon on March 5th, 2007

Aj sent me a link today that I just had to pass along. Baby Rock Records takes songs from famous rockers and lullaby-ifies them! There’s nothing like some baby Nirvana, Radiohead, Zeppelin, and U2. Oh, and don’t forget the baby Metallica and Tool :-D They’ve even put some short clips online, so go give a listen…you know you want to.

JASon on February 25th, 2007

It’s amazing to hear my 2.5 year old son say the same things as I do. It really makes me wonder what I say, and how often I say it.

I was taking a load off this evening playing some MLB2k6, and doing an overall poor job at it. It was the bottom of the 9th, I was up to bat, down by 1 run. With every swing-and-miss that I did Judah would exclaim loudly, “Oh geez!”

All of a sudden my mind is whirling with, “Did he just say that? Was that ‘cheese’ or ‘geez?’ I haven’t been saying that, have I?”

I guess that’s on par with when he repeated after me yesterday. I was working on something, and in a moment of exasperation I said “crap.” Not five seconds later I heard my echo, “cwap.”

Awww cr… ge… dan… DOH!

JASon on February 18th, 2007

I’m in the process of starting up a new blog venture, and I’m having some good fun getting it up off the ground.

A few months ago Sarah stopped by my office at work, and we had a great catch-up conversation (she lives in Boise and does missions work, so we only see each other once or twice a year). She made a comment about how she reads Aj’s blogs frequently, but mine only once in a while. The reason: I write mostly about tech stuff and not so much about family and life. I have to admit that there is definite truth to that.

In the months following that conversation I thought about that one statement, wondering what (if anything) I would do in response to it. I eventually decided to take a similar path as two people I interact with daily, Bren and my wife. Bren has a personal blog and a business blog. Aj has a personal/mama blog and a religious/Quaker thought blog. I now have my personal blog (this is it) and a tech blog.

Sarah — I’ll be putting my tech content elsewhere from now on, so don’t ignore this too much ;-)
Stay tuned here for more stuff about normal life, Judah news, and Half Pint news. And of course the photos and videos. If you like the tech stuff, join me over at TechJive, too.

JASon on February 7th, 2007

If these photos come as a surprise to you, you need to watch the video in this post.

In this photo Half Pint is showing his strength.
Half Pint the Bodybuilder

This is one of Half Pint’s feet. Don’t know which one, but the other one is in there somewhere.
Half Pint's foot

A good shot of Half Pint’s profile, with the arm in there perfectly posed. He’s compliant already :-) Half Pint's Profile

If you didn’t pick up on my choice of words yet, Half Pint is indeed a boy.
Half Pint

If you aren’t able to “read” the photos I made some notes of them on Flickr, so click on each photo to go there. Or you can click here for all of the photos.

JASon on January 30th, 2007

A coworker sent me a link today, and my immediate thought was of Minority Report. Watch this video and you will understand. Here’s a YouTube video of Jeff Han, one of the developers of this new multi-touch screen technology, given at the 2006 TED conference. On a smaller scale, this is similar stuff to the touch screen of the new Apple iPhone. You can watch that in action here for the full keynote, or check here for the Wikipedia’s info on the iPhone touch screen.

[tags]multi-touch screen, Jeff Han, Apple iPhone[/tags]

JASon on January 21st, 2007

Judah has this thing where he first pulls the cushion off of the arm chair, then he’ll jump on the bare chair while singing his ABCs.  Without further ado, I present Judah singing the ABCs.

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JASon on January 18th, 2007

In preparing for Christmas I decided to put my Mac to good use, and “produced” a video for our families. It was good fun to get to dabbel in video production stuff. Without further ado, I give you “The Evolution of Movement.”

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JASon on December 15th, 2006

A co-worker sent me this photo today. Enjoy!

JASon on December 11th, 2006

Are you a fan of the TV show Scrubs? I am, and I had a great time today watching this video on YouTube. The video for Charlie Brown Christmas was mashed with an original Scrubs script to create this classic irreverent video.

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I became acquainted with the music of Sufjan Stevens a short while ago through the wonderful music genome project at Pandora. Well, before Aj and I headed out for the weekend she burned off a Christmas Mix CD that featured two Christmas songs by Sufjan. The whole album was good, but those two songs have been stuck in my head, so I did some searching today and found that he actually has a Christmas “box set.” The best part of it is that you can stream all 5 albums online! Click here to get to it. The song stuck in my head the most is “Once in Royal David’s City” on volume 2 (Hark!).

[tags]Scrubs, Charlie Brown Christmas, mashup, Sufjan Stevens[/tags]