…and with that tidbit of obviousness, a small dose of perspective from a wonderful friend. I’m lifting her post in it’s entirety – I hope you don’t mind, Kate. I know I have devoted a lot of time to discussing the trials and struggles I have faced teaching in a low-income school. While so many [...]
To put it simply: Yeah wyoming hotshots are here! The fire behind the house is mostly out, slurry bombers in air and smoke is clearing around me. Now if anyone wants to hear about my 3 hour hike to get home… That’s our Uncle Doug’s post from Facebook. We’ve since learned that the house was [...]
This was the view from our back porch as of Monday evening, looking west: A fairly large forest fire is burning in the foothills of Boulder. We saw the beginning of it at around 10:30am while out walking Thatcher and watched it quickly grow into the major conflagration it is now. Unseasonably high temperatures combined with [...]
It’s no joke: we love (love!) our pup Thatcher. So much that one or two days a week we’ll drop her off at doggie day care to enjoy the pack for the day. To that end, we’re big supporters of a local business here in Erie called Bowhaus, which also provides live indoor and outdoor [...]
I used to have a little sidebar thing that said I was a father-to-be that I’ve since misplaced in the shuffle to this new layout for motogobi. Well, part of the time spent mucking around with the redesign (which I like a whole ton, ackshually) was done while sitting on the couch watching my son [...]
Last weekend I got sucked into one of the most interesting and cool features of Picasa, Google’s Mac and PC application for organizing photos: facial recognition. Last year, my father began scanning all of the thousands of family photos that he has stored using a slide/negative scanner and a flatbed scanner for prints. I ended [...]