We survived the trip to Storyland, a small amusement park in New Hampshire. The ball bath seemed to be the favorite activity (for the kids, that is).
And we spent one day at Attitash, where they had a pretty good water slide and an excellent alpine slide, which is really a looooong fiberglass track on which you ride on little wheeled sleds down a mountain. Think one-man bobsled without the ice.
Jim on 08.31.04 @ 07:39 PM ET [link]
I finally posted the pictures from the trip to the Marriott's camp in the New Pictures section. It's probably hard to tell from the web-sized pictures, but I think I am habitually over-sharpening. Need to watch that.
And by the way, this picture of Sarah isn't puberty hitting early -- it's a pair of tennis balls.
Jim on 08.27.04 @ 10:35 PM ET [link]
The kids are now out of preschool and are taking a couple weeks of "vacation" before they start kindergarten at the Atrium School. Just twelve more years... Just twelve more years...
Jim on 08.27.04 @ 12:10 PM ET [link]
We're off to upstate NY for a few days to stay at Barb's parents' cabin ("camp" in NY-speak). We'll come back smelling of mothballs.
Jim on 08.22.04 @ 11:21 AM ET [link]
(via Boing Boing) Wonderful Illustrations from Japanese children's books from the 1920's. They are a great combination of art deco/nouveau and asian motifs. I just wish the pictures were a little larger.
Jim on 08.22.04 @ 11:19 AM ET [link]
Eclipse 3.0 has turned out to be an excellent Java development platform. I actually haven't tried using it for C/C++ development yet, but it's on my list. The as-you-type error checking is very good, and even its suggested "correction" are almost always on the mark. Being a java app itself, Eclipse is a bit sluggish, but it 's quite usable.
Jim on 08.20.04 @ 08:18 PM ET [link]
Linux fonts are slowly getting better. But anti-aliasing isn't quite there yet. I'm running Mandrake 10.0 with KDE, on LCD screens. With AA turned off, most fonts look a bit "warty". With AA turned on, most fonts look "fuzzy". Neither is acceptable.
Jim on 08.16.04 @ 04:49 PM ET [link]
Welcome to the new Schrodinger's Dog! More to come later.
Jim on 08.15.04 @ 08:33 PM ET [link]
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