A while back, I was speculating about getting a new camera. I finally gave up using the S30 with the broken screen and decided to act. Although I showed some recent system-administration-confererence-action shots, indoor snapshots are never as much fun. So when we decided to go see the visiting reindeers—from central Oregon apparently—at the San [...]
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By the way, Dina went to Fairbanks a few weeks ago, enjoyed the chilly contrast with Bay Area weather, and had a productive and fun visit. And, to keep karmic scales in balance, I caught a nasty cold for reminding her of the low low temperatures she could expect.
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It’s a balmy 9°F (-13°C) tonight in Fairbanks, although with windchill it feels like -6°F (-21°C). Why one would be naked and outdoors to verify that measurement is beyond me.
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The current temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska is again -6°F, or -21°C.
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The current temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska is -6°F, or -21°C.
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Ben and I biked to GeoKids and then I carried on to the Menlo Park campus yesterday, perhaps in honour of Canada Day. Ben was pretty happy for the first few miles, but I suspect was bored by the time we made it to downtown Menlo. (Google Maps has the distance at about 5 1/2 [...]
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Nathaniel and Benjamin have been trading an ear infection back and forth for the past few weeks, and Nathaniel also looks like he caught the stomach bug that had been prowling through his class at daycare. (But Ben never developed chicken pox, so that’s one positive.) I finally decided that the colds and allergies were [...]
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Well, the rash hasn’t progressed, and none of the constituent bumps have become vesicles, so Ben can’t have chicken pox. I suppose it’s just a viral rash—it already looks like it might be fully subsided by tomorrow. So, another quiet day at home reading (and watching Thomas) together.
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Benjamin has chicken pox. The pox just started to show up this morning, so I expect we’ll be at home for most of the week.
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The book from my father’s Festschrift, From Orthography to Pedagogy, Essays in honor of Richard L. Venezky has been published and the essays are wonderful. Prepaid copies can be ordered from the above link for $39.95.
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