It bugs me that some of my best writing is on Facebook where only a few friends will see it. So let me elevate this comment, which was in response to my friend Charlie. He started out with this question, regarding the particle/wave duality of light:

You can measure a wave and you can measure a particle - how can something be both?

My reply:

You just have to squint at it at the right angle.

"...because a lot of people will tell you not to dedicate your life to this."

This is a great story about a young Spanish luthier just taking up the trade:

Alma (Spanish with English subtitles) from Kauri Multimedia on Vimeo.

My four year old daughter is jumping around, excited about making cookies, because she just woke up and had a dream about making cookies. I explained we had to wait until Mommy and Daddy were ready to make cookies, and why don't you go eat some breakfast while you wait? She said "Dad, I'm not hungry for breakfast! I'm hungry for cookies!"

My wife finally got her book up on Amazon!

My car is in the shop for some transmission work (yeah, I know, FUN), and in a spectacular display of timing we just donated our previous car to Minnesota Teen Challenge. So I'm carless and my friend Nathan has been giving me rides.

I set up a new weblog. This is it, you're reading it. I moved my old weblog and you can read that too if you want. The new blog has pullquotes, which I'm sure you're all excited about.

"Hey I installed new blog software" is pretty boring, so here's a picture of a snail on a basketball: