Posted in Drumming, People, Places on Nov 30th, 2005 2 Comments »
Each year, the day after Thanksgiving, the town of Cornwall, Connecticut holds a “talent” or variety show in a church to raise money for their library. My percussion group, The Offbeats was one of many acts. I’ll post pictures of the other acts in the next few days. Here we are playing our opening samba [...]
Posted in People, Places on Nov 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Pati King-Debaun at the 2005 AlphaSmart reception at the Closing the Gap Assistive Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Pati is one of the leaders in the field of assistive technology. She writes software, books, and curricula and presents, teaches and does workshops the world over.
Posted in People, Places on Nov 29th, 2005 No Comments »
Dan Herlihy at the 2005 AlphaSmart reception at the Closing the Gap Assistive Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Dan is an assistive technology consultant and trainer who’s well known the world over.
Posted in Flowers, Places on Nov 28th, 2005 6 Comments »
While in LA I went back and took some more shots of the princess plant in Santa Monica, California. It is a small tree in a large pot with branches and curled leaves and the weirdest flowers I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks to Eric for identifying it it for me. Flickr rocks!
Posted in Food on Nov 28th, 2005 2 Comments »
Pam Darling’s peppers from her garden near Kansas City. If they’re as good as her bread and butter pickles we’re in for a treat.
Posted in Macintosh, People, Places on Nov 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Brian Friedlander at the 2005 AlphaSmart reception at the Closing the Gap Assistive Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Brian is a psychologist and assistive technology expert and was recently named Apple Educator of the Year. Dan Herlihy is whetting his whistle behind Brian.
Posted in Art and Design on Nov 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Check out this paper sculpture by Peter Callesen. Fantastic stuff.
Posted in Cats on Nov 27th, 2005 2 Comments »
This is the first part of a series on The Kitty and her ball.
Posted in Food, Ideas, Our Place, Reflections on Nov 26th, 2005 2 Comments »
I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. No religion. No commercialism. Just a family get-together and a good meal. Nice. While everyone in my family was busy whipping cream and cutting pies I looked out over our table and considered how lucky we are to be able to have a meal like this. I’m thankful. [...]
Posted in Our Place, People on Nov 26th, 2005 No Comments »
It took a while to get her tired enough to pose for a nice picture. Then she turned away, more interested in toys. …enough picture taking grandpa, time to play with toys.
Posted in Movies, People on Nov 26th, 2005 1 Comment »
‘Karate Kid’ actor, comedian Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita, 73, dies Goodbye, Mr. Miyagi I don’t know why, but Pat Morita in the role of Mr. Miyagi in the movie The Karate Kid has stuck in my brain and when I read Morita had died it got to me. Mr. Miyagi, the character in the movie had [...]
Posted in Our Place, People on Nov 25th, 2005 3 Comments »
What can I say? Kids are cute no matter what they do.
Posted in Food, Our Place, People on Nov 25th, 2005 No Comments »
If you make the whipped cream you get to lick the beaters. Them’s the rules. Erin’s been waiting patiently (well, not so patiently) until she was old enough to hold the mixer. This year she did it and here she is reaping her reward. Thanksgiving, 2005.
Posted in Our Place, People on Nov 25th, 2005 6 Comments »
My two stepdaughters: Bonnie (Erin’s mom) and her older sister Jessica, cutting pies while Erin makes whipped cream off camera. Thanksgiving, 2005.
Posted in Our Place, People on Nov 25th, 2005 2 Comments »
Erin and her dad Kyle, Thanksgiving, 2005.
Posted in People, Places, Stories on Nov 25th, 2005 4 Comments »
My wife Anne’s ex husband is David Darling who is a world-renowned cellist and improvisationalist. He’s also a great guy and over the years Anne and I have been together, David and I have become friends. When their younger daughter Bonnie (Erin’s mom) was in high school and David, Anne and I went to see [...]
Posted in People, Places on Nov 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Dr. Caroline Musselwhite at the 2005 AlphaSmart reception at the Closing the Gap Assistive Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Caroline is a speech and language pathologist, author, teacher, assistive technology consultant and presenter and a knitter, among other things. She’s thinking hard (as usual) about something here. Nancy Hogan is in the background.
Posted in People, Places on Nov 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Dr. David Niemeijer at the 2005 AlphaSmart reception at the Closing the Gap Assistive Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. David is a programmer and software publisher: his Macintosh OS X on-screen keyboard software makes it possible for people with limited physical ability to communicate and control both a computer and much of their environment. David [...]
Posted in Ideas, Politics on Nov 24th, 2005 11 Comments »
While flying back from Los Angeles I read A Deadly Interrogation, an important and disturbing New Yorker article by Jane Mayer about the C.I.A. using torture outside of the United States. I urge you to read this article. Now. It’s important that all of us in the US consider how our role in the world [...]
Posted in Social Software on Nov 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
Note: this was originally written a year ago and published at LD Resources. RSS = Really Simple Syndication. Right… that doesn’t help much so this article will go into a bit more detail about what RSS is and why it might be useful to you. Background To most people, a web browser is the internet. [...]
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