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Update to yesterday’s post about the woman who got house arrest for killing a man:

The federal Conservative Justice critic said Tuesday that cutting a woman off e-mail and ordering her to serve two years of house arrest for killing her cheating lover sends the wrong message.

Here’s the full story.
The judge says that the jury found […]

I happen to subscribe to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Canadian news feeds, and I just got two that illustrate how absolutely unspeakably insane Canada’s laws are right now.
Kill someone, stay at home
Kill a man, but if you’re really quite a nice person normally, you get to stay at home. No jail, not even confinement to […]

Recently at Seattle’s Woodland Zoo our youngest son Aidan jumped on a park bench and started hamming it up with an eagle sculpure.
I grabbed the camera and staring shooting. Only later did we realize that - as can happen rather easily on my camera (Sony Cybershot DSCW1 5MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom) I […]

Two weeks ago I re-read Collapsium, by Wil McCarthy.
The first book of McCarthy’s that I read was Bloom, which was absolutely mind-blowing - exactly the experience you get from top-notch science fiction.
Collapsium is very, very good as well. Imagine a scientist - a shy and awkward scientist, to boot - as the star of an […]

… and it’s about making lots of money.
Somebody, please, stop the insanity.
(Via Jonathan Schwartz.)

It’s blue. And it’s a flower. Hence the title.

Whoa. Very, very, very cool - a rotating chair that holds your binoculars and tilts back so you can stargaze in comfort.

I saw it first here, and there’s more info at the manufacturer’s site.
From that site:

Comfortable: A reclining chair supports your entire body
Fun: Counterweighted mounting bar holds your choice of binoculars
Simple: Convenient joystick gives instant […]

This is a very cool idea - outsourcing to rural USA - that I hope catches on.
The cost of living in rural USA is a quarter what it might be in a major city, so the wages can be lower, but the people are smart, local, able to communicate, and in a convenient time zone. […]

When we left Osoyoos for Seattle, we travelled down through Oroville, Washington.
There’s nothing to make you feel that you’re in the (rural) US like dead deer heads in a gas station:

We went down through Washingon, crossing through Leavenworth, which is a pretty prototypical tourist trap done up in Bavarian (nicer way of saying German in […]

Just finished reading Red Thunder by John Varley.
Good read but not nearly up to his previous effort, The Golden Globe. The book is about a couple of young reasonably disenfranchised Americans who, with the aid of a semi-autistic genius and a disgraced astronaut, build a spaceship to reach Mars ahead of the Chinese.
The book […]

Coming back from a vacation spent entirely with 3 kids, I was thinking late last night about children, family, and parenting.
Parenting takes a ton of energy, more patience than you have, a huge slice of your life, and much more besides.
But one thing I think parenting does is teach you about yourself. Of course kids […]

I haven’t made a real post on my blog for almost a week now - vacation has been busier than work and everyday life.
However, now I’m going to start posting some of the pix that Teresa and I took on our trip. This section is from home to Osoyoos, BC.
We drove to Osoyoos in about […]

We’re back! (From vacation.)
Whoa. 1012 articles in my RSS reader. Yikes.
Maybe I’ll go back on vacation.

We’re (Teresa, Gabrielle, Ethan, and Aidan) currently on vacation, so don’t expect a ton of posts here for the next bit.
Right now we’re in Osoyoos …. 30 Celcius at 8:00 PM!
Water, sun, fun, etc.

… an enterprise app built with this sensibility in mind.

I happened to see this in my iPhoto library when digging up an image for a friend … it’s a painting I did about a year ago.

I just saw this software in Macintouch’s RSS feed.
Very cool - great software for web developers and bloggers.
The app is called DreamCatcher, which couldn’t have anything to do with a certain web design app, could it? DreamCatcher is desktop software that runs on Mac OS X - Just set it up with a URL, it’ll […]