Author Archives: Tom

DevConnections Las Vegas, Day One (Pre-conf.)

When the clock-radio alarm goes off at 6:30AM, it is playing Katy Perry’s “Waking Up In Vegas.” Oddly, nowhere in that song does she discuss blearily performing one’s morning ablutions, then staggering downstairs to purchase an $11 plate of biscuits and gravy from a Nathan’s Hot Dogs stand and eat it while sitting under a […]

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So we headed to Chicago’s Chinatown….

…for the New Year’s parade last weekend — and, while taking advantage of the truly lovely and unseasonal weather,  introduced my in-laws to dim sum, which somehow they’d never managed to encounter. (The girls, of course, had their usual — sesame chicken covered in sweet orange goop over mounds of white rice — but the […]

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Knocking on wood….

I don’t want to jinx us, here, but Haley has actually managed to sleep in her own bed for two consecutive nights, only requiring a couple visits from us. Something went wrong with her sleep habits early on and we never quite managed to address it successfully, no matter what we tried; as a consequence, […]

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Curds and whey: cottage cheese reviews. Seriously.

I enjoy the odd bowl of cottage cheese every now and then. But I’m picky; there’s a huge difference between brands, and it doesn’t simply boil down to trusting that the more expensive ones are going to be better. As a consequence, I find myself sampling brands whenever we start shopping at a different grocery […]

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I’m really not much of a shutterbug…

…but I’ve been looking over the past few years for a camera to replace our aging — aged, really — Canon G5. I like a fair bit of manual control, but Christy kept running afoul of the various mode dials on the G5; she’d accidentally bump it over to Aperture Priority mode or Movie mode […]

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