Author: djuggler

I can’t put it into words. You have to watch this! I did twice. It’s worksafe and clean. And great!

So what’s the longest running blog you’ve stumbled across? This guy has been blogging fairly consistently since Sept 11, 2000!

Ever had one of those days that started out on such a good note that it seemed you could do no wrong then you proceeded to screw everything up?

I so look forward to the end of my days
When at last I can lay myself to rest.
In darkness troubles are so few
And if allowed peace comes to you.

No conflict for the calmed spirit.
Muscles relaxed without burdens.
Nothing new for the mind.
And plenty, plenty of time.

The Day’s journey beats us up.
In the end there is no reward
Aside from the comforting thought
That you burden no one more.

Dean and Tim.. Did you ever figure this out?

I think Evan is nearing that age where he can start communicating through sign (amz). He effective has started using his own sign for "pick me up" which is a natural gesture of simultaneously raising his arms above his head and holding them there. As long as we reinforce the sign by picking him up when he does it, the sign will stick.

Cathy and I prefer to teach ASL over made up signs but are flexible enough to adapt to Evan’s own choices. The trick is to pick a single sign, like banana, and use it until the child learns it then add another sign. Trying to teach too many signs at once will only lead to frustration. With Amy it was very nice to know that she wasn’t just hungry but that she wanted a banana or apple juice before she could speak.

We highly recommend Baby Signs (official site – and it’s using ColdFusion! albeit with the horrid Fusebox methodology).

Other posts referencing Amy and signing:

• Special moments with a baby
• Braggin On Baby
• From the Mouths of Babes

Had some quality time with Noah teaching him to play Go. And updated New Hampshire’s Lottery Results Blog.

So I am trying to have a calm relaxing yet productive day. Something I’ve delayed working on I declare "I’ll spend the next hour working on this and be very satisfied" so of course my development server falls off the network. I suspect the network card has failed but who knows. My hour now gets to be spent troubleshooting hardware.

Update:etho-: PCI bus error, bus status 00000020

Resolved: Reseated 3COM 3c905b-tx in a different pci slot.

I was holding Evan during my previous post so I got distracted and forgot to make the last paragraph.

With his flipping over comes a certain amount of pride to mom and dad. It’s so cute! And he seems so pleased with himself. And here’s the lesson to the new parents. If you turn your back to get a wet wipe when changing a dirty diaper when you turn back the baby won’t be where you left him! Ewww.

I love that Evan has figured out his hands. He loves that he has figured out his hands. But man is he quick! Coffee, waffles, keyboards, printed specifications, or anything in front of you while holding an Evan on your lap is in severe danger. Reflexes must be sharp!

This morning I put a toy in front of him so I could eat my waffles while holding him in my lap. The toy was in now way as interesting as what Dad had and in a millisecond I almost was wearing my waffles. Nice work Evan!

In other realms Evan has learned to flip over at will. He’s like a Weeble. Put him down on his back and before you’ve fully released him he is on his stomach again! Now he roll back. He has tasted freedom! Crawling is not far off. He can already pick a direction and move himself o an object of desire. Time for major throw rungs in the house!

Appalachia Alumni Association brings us 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal (which in turn came from TBogg who found it on Craig’s List)

Speaking of "Craig"s, anyone know the whereabouts of Craig Howard?

Time to cook dinner. All I really want to do is chill out. I think I’ll cook dinner and work on a hardware issue at the same time. I also need to do one small thing to the house.

Would your children know how to save themselves in a school shooting? I’m not even sure I like the idea of having to teach this to a young person. I try to teach trust, honesty, confidence and following the rules yet to prepare a child to deal with such a situation we have to teach them insecurity (look over your shoulder), awareness (not a bad thing but in this context we are teaching suspicion), lack of trust, conspiracy and fear.

In college I pranced across the lawn at UT and looked at my surroundings and thought, "wow, if a snipper were in that tower or atop any of those buildings I could die right now." But I chose to embrace my moment and enjoy life rather than rush from bush to bush and shadow to shadow trying to evade the imaginary killer. Is a child capable of such a decision?

So you want to include a Google Map on your site? With ColdFusion you can do it in two lines of code using CFGoogleMaps!

<cfscript>
    //Create the object
    cfgm = CreateObject('component','cfgooglemaps');
    //Pass the init function your google key and the
    //lat and lon on which the map should be centered
    cfgm.init('INSERT GOOGLE MAP KEY',38.898748,-77.037684);
</cfscript>

<cfoutput>
    <!--- Now just output the map --->
    #cfgm.getMap()#
</cfoutput>

7th Heaven and Arrested Development have been cancelled.