Chrissy and I went in for her ultrasound appointment yesterday to find out the gender of “Baby 2.0″. After sitting in the waiting room for over an hour (or sleeping on my shoulder, in Chrissy’s case), we finally got in to take a look at things. This, apparently, requires half a gallon of green goo, applied...
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A marketing company called SeedWell created a viral video that pokes fun at BigDog, the horse-robot that I want to ride around town. It starts off mimicking the video from Boston Dynamics, but gets progressively sillier. I’m hoping to see a rebuttal from Boston Dynamics, with each set of robotic BigDog legs doing the...
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Boston Dynamics has released a new video of their walking robot, BigDog. Work on this project has come a long way, and the prototype is now able to climb steep inclines, recover lost balance and leap over short distances. I believe that it’s remote controlled by an operator, but it would be very cool if it could automatically...
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I signed up for Twitter a few months back, and I’m hopelessly addicted now. I find myself checking my Twitter feed about ten times a day: reading replies from friends to people I don’t know, checking those people’s feeds, adding them to my own friends list if they look interesting. I don’t mind the jones,...
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I’ve been trying to lose weight for the last several months, and the recumbent bike in our basement has been a big factor in my plans. I was sticking to my schedule for a while, trying to get on the bike at least two or three times a week. When I went to C# training last month, I was worried that I would have to wait a week to...
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Chrissy left on Friday for another scrapbooking retreat with a group of friends. I took a personal day from work so that she could leave early in the morning. Aiden and I were looking forward to three days together on another whirlwind “Daddy and Son Weekend”. We’ve done this before, so I wasn’t expecting...
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After weeks of unsuccessful attempts, Aiden has now managed to climb onto the couch without help. This is possibly a bad situation for us, since the couch is considered “gateway furniture”. Next, he’ll be moving on to bigger and more dangerous furniture, like the kitchen table or the entertainment center. ...
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The final level of the single player game involves chasing Akasha, the Necris High Inquisitor, around a small cathedral until one of you gets twenty kills. It’s a duel to the death in a playing field designed by MC Escher. I hate to say it, but Akasha took me behind the woodshed repeatedly. I finally dropped the...
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