Archives for May, 2007

Dear Zoe, We will remember your third month as “the month with all the puking.” At least, I hope we will remember it that way, and not “the first of many, many months of puking.” Although, as I write that, I can hear every other parent in the world laughing at me, so maybe I [...]


I just found out that Steve Swor, one of my friends from the radio station, killed himself last week. They found him in his truck in a closed garage on May 15th. He was 38 years old. I haven’t seen Steve since Annie and I left Ellensburg a few years ago, but we’d been keeping [...]



I have mixed feelings about the beta. On the one hand, it’s totally good. The gameplay is exactly what you would expect – sort of a synthesis of the best parts of Halo and Halo 2. The feeling is familiar, all the new weapons and gadgets really enhance the experience, and the graphics are beautiful. [...]


(Sorry for the delay in posting this – I’ve been sitting on the draft for nearly four months now, planning to expand it, but it’s time to cut my losses and just post it as is.) Annie had been going to bed with her cell phone on the nightstand for the last two weeks, just [...]


Totally Good.


I went down once into the [particle] accelerator at CERN in Geneva and we were driving around the accelerator ring in an electric golf cart and the guy was explaining that they’re out pursuing the pi meson or whatever. And he said “Quite often we have accidents down here because people are driving the 27 [...]


Dear Zoe, It has now been two months since you were born… Well, actually, it’s more like two and a half. Things have been a bit hectic around here lately, and I wasn’t able to get the second newsletter written on time. With one month under our belts, your mom and I felt pretty confident [...]