Little grief bombs

David Lowery of Cracker fame once labeled pets as "little grief time bombs." We take them into our homes, give them love, and then, just when you forget they're mortal, Boom! goes the grief bomb.

Our latest grief bomb went off this fall when we had to say goodbye to our Mouser after 11 years, and it still gets a little dusty sometimes. Earlier today while looking for something on my computer I found this video that I made with iPhoto a couple years ago, and I thought that I'd share. Enjoy. (Mouser is the striped kitty. Gandalf is the large grey tom, and our dog is Buddy)

Site layout changes

It's time for the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of, "Let's revamp the web site." I'm slowly moving toward making everything HTML 5 compliant, but with fallback for older browsers. More improvements should drop in over the next few weeks - we'll see how that goes.

As if I needed a new challenge

The Epiphone Les Paul Studio edition in matte black.

I've been looking at this beauty for over a year. I finally decided to get off the fence and order it from Guitar Center, and now it's in my office. Now I just need to make some free time (hah!) for practice.

Farewell to the STS

Back in March of 2001 I was in Orlando for the annual Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education conference when I heard there was going to be a shuttle launch that week. I rented a car, drove over to Cape Canaveral, and witnessed something that I'll never forget. So, in honor of the Shuttle Transport System's final mission I've uploaded the video I took that day ten years ago. (the video is in H.264 and ogg formats)