The blog is back (again)

Well, after a brief affair with iWeb, I've moved my blog back to Wordpress, but on a different host. (Thanks, Cotton!) All of the old content seems to be here, and everything looks like it's about 1.0 ready. You can go ahead and do things like subscribe to the RSS now, and I'll be finishing a few things here and there in the meantime. Plus, I've got some pretty good posts saved up.

I'm NOT crazy! (At least not about this.)

WARNING: NERD POST AHEAD. POSSIBLE PHYSICS AND/OR BASIC ELECTRICAL THEORY.

Those of you who know me fairly well have heard of my twitchy eyes. If you haven’t, blah blah blah meningitis blah blah smacked my head on the floor blah blah my eyes have a really low frame rate when I move around blah blah torsional nystagmus.

Anyway, one interesting side effect is that I seem to be much more sensitive to lights blinking or changing very quickly. For example, I can almost always pick up the rainbow effect from DLP TVs, even relatively new ones. I’m a lot better at picking up on scan lines on CRTs, and so on. So when I first saw LED Christmas lights on a house in the dark, I could swear they had a 60 Hz flicker to them.

Happy wedding, Kameron and Ashley!

Well, almost 2 weeks later, the pictures are online from Kameron and Ashley’s wedding in Dallas. The ceremony was at SMU’s Perkins Chapel, and the reception was across town at the Aldredge House in Dallas. Here’s the gallery.

My brother, the marathon runner

Contrary to what the picture would suggest, he can’t actually fly, but he came pretty close! Brent ran the Dallas White Rock Marathon this past Saturday. He didn’t walk a step, and he finished the race in just over four hours. We chased him around Dallas thanks to a printed map, an iPhone, and a Suburban. Every time we saw him he looked like he had just started the race. I think I was more tired from walking around afterwards than he was from running the marathon. There are plenty of pictures here. Click through to see a few of my favorites as well.

I swear this isn't a baby blog.

We went over to Brian and Nikki’s for dessert and Christmas decorating tonight. Rowan’s getting pretty big, and he doesn’t particularly like to smile, but I got some pictures of him anyway. I’m just getting warmed up for the thousands of pictures I’m going to take of my kid, though...

Christmas lights!

By my math, we have about 3,000 lights on the house. Putting the icicles on the roof was an exercise in treachery—especially the back corner of the house (the far right in the picture). Sitting on that downhill slope while leaning over to clip on lights was a bit terrifying. Although, I have to admit, it was worth it—and it will be much easier next year. I couldn’t have done it without you, crazy multifunction ladder.

Parenting tips

I was doing some research on the impending birth of my first child, and I came across these parenting tips. Take them to heart. (Click through to see the picture.)