Blog: Whale Watch!
For Erica’s birthday, I took her on a whale watch here in Portland. We had a great time, and saw a lot of unexpected wildlife. While we eventually saw a few whales, the most exciting sightings were not mammalian. As the boat headed out, we saw several sea otters and a couple [...]
Blog: Great Juggling, part 2: Jay and friends
After the previous mellow entry, I thought it might be nice to include something a little bit more high-energy. Now, the first few times I saw Jay Gilligan perform, back in the late nineties when I moved to the Midwest for college and started attending juggling festivals out there, his work was often very [...]
Blog: Great Juggling, Part 1
I thought about doing this a while back, when I first wrote about the whole Chris Bliss thing. I let the idea go, but recently decided to go back and give it a shot. (Thank you, Dolores.)
This is the first in what I hope will be a fun series of posts about jugglers [...]
Blog: Joy
Four years ago, I seem to remember some incompetent blowhard blathering on about a right wing mandate. As this past Tuesday night progressed, the thought kept popping into my mind, Crocodile Dundee style, that “that’s not a mandate. Now THIS is a mandate.”
I got off of work at 11:00PM, listened to McCain’s speech [...]
Blog: New Environs
We are, by this point, mostly settled in to our new place in Portland, Maine. The town seems great. Its tiny size relative to Chicago is already coming through, as we run into people we’ve already met far too often when wandering around downtown. In a similar, but small world, remarkable coincidence, [...]
Blog: Too..Something
I enjoy reading about the creation/evolution debate. I like seeing science and reason defeat lunacy. Lately, the blogs have been a-roaring over the Expelled brouhaha with PZ Myers and his mystery guest. Tonight served up some more delicious drama when PZ crashed their promotional conference call.
This is all, of course, tangential to [...]
Blog: Summer shows
Yesterday was the first of my shows for this season with Newton Learning, the education-y company I juggled for in the fall. They run after school programs, funded by No Child Left Behind, at schools that perform low enough on whatever standardized testing is the current..um..standard. Where last year all of the shows [...]
Blog: The Secret Crapola
I finally got around to watching The Secret this week, with Erica and Kate. I first learned about it through a coworker, and then some months later read up on it as Oprah started endorsing the damn thing. Now, there are many, many, critiques out there already, and I don’t really plan on attacking the [...]
Blog: So then I realized this blog needs more metal.
I have been listening to almost nothing but metal lately, (with a little Bangles and Roy Zimmerman thrown in), and I’m pretty excited about it. Since I’ve finally figured out embedding in this thing (I just turned off the Rich Text Formatting stuff) it seems like a celebratory YouTube dump is in order!
First up, [...]
Blog: Lame and Cool at the same time..
So I still haven’t figured out embedding video in this WordPress thing… Lame. Erica and I put up a couple of videos of ourselves on YouTube, though, which I think is pretty cool. Still lame that I don’t have the videos sitting nicely in the middle of this post.
So here is the [...]