Archive for July, 2008

Jasmine Gotcha Day

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

July 18th, 2004.  The day they brought Jasmine to my hotel and left for good.  Some guy, her “grandma”, and another little girl.  They spent maybe 10 minutes together, and then left.  The door shut, and Jasmine cried and screamed.  I expect I was the first man to ever pick her up.  She finally just [...]

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Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) (via mattharding2718)

Friday, July 11th, 2008

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Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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Libby looking down

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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Andy in front of piece of Berlin Wall

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

 
I’m at the Microsoft MVP summit.  They had poorly curated corporate art, but the piece of the Berlin wall in the lobby was pretty cool.  Although the individual pieces of art were good, there was no overall personality to the exhibit. While I was in Seattle the Dalai lama and Bishop Tutu were having [...]

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Picture of boardwalk at Atlantic City in 1959

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Dad took this picture in 1959, I wonder why he was there.  Or more accurately, I wonder what academic conference was there?  Let’s see, Carol would have been 5?  I know my 5 year old (Jasmine) would be saying “This is  SO BOOOOORRRRRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG, Daddy!”
 

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Do you yahoo III

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

They used one of my photographs on the front page of Yahoo answers (Mexico).  This time it was a picture of Libby.  Think we took this picture in Paris when Libby was less than a year.  I should get one of my linguists friends to translate!

 
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Korean Tie Chogakbo Pattern

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Chogakbo Pattern

In the period of the Yi Dynasty, our ancestors saved tens and hundreds scraps of cloth left over and quilted them together to create wrapping clothes or covers called CHOGAKBO.  Now we take the unique shape and outstanding beauty of CHOGAKBO and applied them to modern style, creating scarf, necktie, and other miscellaneous goods.

 
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Libby is 4 years old

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Libby’s 4th birthday party was the other day, not her actually birthday, but her party (she made that very clear that these were birthday party presents, and not birthday presents).  All the presents had horse’s on them, from dresses, to animals, a music box, to the cake…

which candle to blow out first…

4 years [...]

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