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I guess I fail the test , since I answered "no" to both questions, though I suppose Brad Andresen from college (the one who always said of me, "You're more liberal than you think you are.") would be happy to hear that I'd be more likely to think it alright to slap my dad... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 29, 2009, 10:39 am
Category: Reviews

Reading, Counting, Pulling Up

5/4 - Jonathan read Hop On Pop to us. It took two sessions because it is a pretty long book. It was fun for me because I know that was one of the first books I read out loud to my parents. 5/8 - Kids only know what they're exposed to. When Noah saw the TV in our... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 13, 2009, 8:01 am
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Free Range Kids: One Hundred Years Ago

Would you send your nine-year-old on a New York City subway by himself? Would you send him on a horse from Oklahoma to New Mexico and back by way of the deserts of Texas - taking his five-year-old brother along? It can be frustrating sifting through the chaff at the children's... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 23, 2009, 7:21 am
Category: Reviews

Quotes and More

4/10 - Noah comes up to me, winking, and says, "Mommy, me one eye!" It was hilarious. (I couldn't wink until first grade.) 4/11 - Guess which story this is, by Noah: "Let me in. No, no, no. Blow up house!" 4/20 - What does Noah say when... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 20, 2009, 6:43 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Another Word Problem

If you start a pot boiling at 9:55PM (knowing that you will be up for a while) to hard boil eggs for the following day and don't set a timer, how long will it take before you go back to the kitchen to turn off the stove? Your answer should be written in terms of: E: Number of... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 19, 2009, 10:54 pm
Category: Reviews

Coloring, Colors, Teeth

3/29 - Jonathan was upstairs quietly playing for a very long time. When he finally came down, he showed us what he had been working on the whole time. It was a completely filled in color-by-number page. He read the colors all by himself to see which one went with which... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 4, 2009, 2:30 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

2008 Taxes

I haven't looked at how much time it took us to do taxes this year - I thought we were doing pretty well, time-wise, until we blew 8 hours or so today finishing them off (or is it them finishing us off, I'm not sure which...) I noticed a number of places where the strange, complicated... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2009, 10:21 pm
Category: Reviews

Gardening

I've been mentioning my garden doings on Serina's blog and in private emails with her, and I thought I'd compile and post the relevant info here. March 15: Whoohoo! I just placed my order with fedco , and we’ve been preparing our squares out front. Jon just... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 18, 2009, 6:41 pm
Category: General

News I Forgot to Mention

Speaking of news, I forgot to post here that the closing arguments for Judy's trial are scheduled for tomorrow, and I'll be heading to Pittsburgh to hang out with folks who will be there in her support. Of course, this might be the first time a scheduled meeting actually happened when it... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 17, 2009, 11:41 pm
Category: Isaac

Faith, 6 months

We skipped the four month appointment because we were in Switzerland, but six months came quickly enough. At 27.5" long and 16.8lb, she is 50% in weight but 95% in height! Dr.Anderson wondered if we weighed her correctly, but he said when he saw her he had no concerns about her... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 8, 2009, 8:09 pm
Category: Faith

Stuff again

2/10 or earlier - Faith can transfer an item from one hand to the other. 2/10 - Jonathan, studying a penny, "This coin says 1 - 9 - 9 - 9. That's super long ago!" (I knew my kids would think anything before 2000 was ancient history.) Since coming home from... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 26, 2009, 2:39 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Installing clusterssh on Cygwin

Since I am a lazy Debian user, I am not used to compiling things from source. (sidenote: It is interesting to me how many people from other distributions are fairly used to mucking around in source code, spending hours working on getting a simple package installed) But, clusterssh... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 23, 2009, 11:49 am
Category: Reviews

Recovery Rebate Calculator (AKA, Will the IRS Give Me Any More Money?)

The IRS hasn't published their calculator yet, and I have been reading about lots of people trying to figure out what to do with line 70 on their 1040 (ie. the famous RRC that is causing probably more time wasted than was worth the money that was sent out last year. So, I wrote a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 17, 2009, 1:41 pm
Category: Programming

House Work on Carroll Street

Heather and I spent several days over the last week at our old house, cleaning and fixing various things that our previous tenants broke. It is pretty annoying to have people totally not care about your property, and live in pretty disgusting conditions, presumably to get back at me for... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 11, 2009, 11:38 pm
Category: Reviews

Fakeable Caller ID

We've gotten two calls in the last couple days from people claiming that we called them, and quite irate about it. What they didn't realize is that you can't really trust the caller-id values displayed on your phone - they are trivially forgeable by anyone, and I think relatively hard to... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 11, 2009, 11:32 pm
Category: Reviews