Not a terrible weekend; took an extra day, got a bunch of stuff done a day early, which was nice, because of all the end-of-year Girl Scout activites going on. Also, thanks to the newly-arrived car bike rack, we got a few good hours of trail riding in at the local park. Very nice. Saw […]

I don’t feel especially guilty spending part of my tax return on a huge HDTV (at a fraction of the price listed on the link; I’m not stupid) and turning my living room, which also got a refresher with some paint and new shelves which really opens up the space, into a screening room to […]

As I’d mentioned previously, and did a bit of twittering about in theater, the family spent the weekend at ravencon, which politely decided to set itself up about 20 minutes from my front door this year. This was the first year doing the whole weekend (last year, we did a spur-of-the-moment Friday night drop-in), so […]

The whole household is terribly excited about this weekend’s RavenCon coming to town; three days of hanging out with like-minded science fiction and fantasy fans, playing games, meeting authors and creators, and generally discovering new things to get excited about. This morning I got the email confirming our registration, and late last week the schedule […]

I love living in the future. Seriously, lag-free video conferencing with my wife and kids who are sitting over 100 miles away is a very, very cool thing. …now, to get working on those warrior robots.

Upon reaching a certain age, one may leave behind certain childish things… …but not all childish things. PFFFFFFFT!!!!!

Among other things* this weekend, we took a trip (at my son’s urging) to the Science Museum of Virginia, which is twenty minutes from my driveway (and has been as long as I’ve lived here), but I’d never managed to visit before. It was a nice day out for the family; we played with a […]

Posed for a pre-race photo, here are this year’s entries for the cub scout pinewood derby: Three of us built entries this year. From left to right, Mary’s mouse racer, Andrew’s flaming car, and my last-minute Conestoga wagon. Hopefully, we’ll do well.

…I’ll let this guy do it: Happy Birthday, My Dear!

With much fanfare and Bravado, today, the Institute for the Study of Random Stuff Told to Chuck on the Phone during his Lunch Break received the results of a study which will, once and for all, settle a long-standing, heated debate in the disciplines of temporal physics and autovisual transmission which has raged between experts […]