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One of my outdoor plants had been flattened. I found the culprit (say “hi!” to Timmy).

Alanis can still wail

Our new additions to the family

I follow DHH (creator or Ruby on Rails, among other things) on Twitter and he always has great insights on tech. I found myself one day reading the Basecamp (of which he is a co-founder) employee handbook, thinking it was going to be something like the one from Valve, but to me this was so much more. I stopped reading every now and then to think “wow, can work life possibly be like this?” and was left wondering how I as a small cog in a corporate machine could hope to make any changes like this. ...

Here be the books I’m attempting to get through this year. Most have been sitting in my book case forever. I was going for one a month, but decided to add a few more, since: I got to the last part of “The War on Science” nearly a year ago; have already read the first edition of “Wolfenstein 3D”; and have already started “Algorithms to Live By” and “The Disaster Artist”. ...

IMG_20131011_163512.jpg … after which it moves to an undisclosed location.

Here are some photos that Adriana took recently, first of me playing with Connor, and then the aftermath: And then one containing the many faces of Maya: serious, spooked, happy, chipmunk, goofy, and pissed-off.

Here is Maya and Connor having a bit of fun in their favourite play spot while listening to the song “Wolf” by Pyramid.