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29 September 2007 - Backyard Campout


28 September 2007

This past weekend we finally got to meet our newest little cousin, Brent. Nancy and Ken are very proud of the little guy and he is a serious fellow ... look at the determination he shows going after the toy in the video below! Of course all the normal gags like silly faces and peek-a-boo elicit smiles and giggles as well. We're all glad Nancy and Ken are getting to experience the adventure of parenthood.


19 September 2007 - Our neighbor Stacey gave us a new pet...


17 September 2007

Zara came up to me this morning exclaiming "I got gum!", which naturally had me a little worried. Where did she get this gum? How much have they eaten? Is it anywhere else? Then I noticed the chewed up pieces of paper on the ground. The "gum" was actually a bit of notecard, quite slobbery and satisfying to 2 and 4 year olds though. Very innovative pair those two.


16 September 2007

Tonight as we sat and watched Star Wars to settle down from an exciting day, a hot air balloon crashed in the yard across the street. About 50 neighbors, kids and all, raced out to help salvage the balloon. We were able to lower it in a grassy field and fold it up as balloons should. The kids thought it was great fun to see a balloon up close and were amazed at how big it was. I don't know where the balloon came from or where it was going, but we were all glad to help. Such is America.


10 September 2007

Uns ist in alten mæren wunders vil geseit,
von helden lobebæren, von grozer arebeit,
von freuden, hochgeziten, von weinen und von klagen,
von küener recken striten muget ir nu wunder hoeren sagen.

Siegfried had to die because he was too heroic. His overhelping of virtue unbalanced his humors, at least in the medieval mind, and like Icarus he flew too high. The renaissance was inaugurated by men like Da Vinci and Paracelsus, who excelled in a variety of fields but were undisputed masters of none. I am cut from latter cloth. I have found my attention is only focusable on a particular subject for 2 or 3 years before I must move on. I could perhaps paint myself in noble libertarian colors, like a John Galt abandoning physics rather than becoming a thrall of the Department of Energy, but it was more trite matters which finally precipitated this change. I have campaigned for your tax dollars, perhaps with remorse, but actions are more important than intentions. No, it was the imperiousness of my self-proclaimed Doktorvater which led me to change course.

It is with great irony that having left the field you can now find my name as an author on SPIRES and that there is an article appearing about me next month in Symmetry, the magazine of US High Energy Physics. It is surely vain to now draw comparisons of myself to Stephen Wolfram, but he too left physics to pursue the adventure of starting a business. I'm sure the decision will look obvious in hindsight, but for now there is a difficult road ahead, with obstacles to overcome and fog obscuring my path.


3 September 2007 - Boomsday


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