Feb 15, 2009 - Is my life boring?
I have been looking at my website lately. I haven't had front-page changes to it for quite a while! Does that mean nothing is happening, that my life is boring?
Life is quieter now that the kids aren't at home. But Melanie and I are busy. We have our day jobs. Melanie has started back to school (at UWB). We just finished taking a waltz class together. I am working on a new personal software project.
I also find that I am keeping up with a lot of new and old friends via Facebook. And that has had a little bit of overlap with this website. But it has been a Very Good Thing! :-)
The big thing, I think, is that we have fewer "big" events because the kids are not going to school locally. And much of my website content here has been about these events. Life transitions are certainly interesting!
So no, my life isn't boring. Just the web-site front-page!
Nov 27, 2008 - Thanksgiving 2008
Nov 08, 2008 - Seattle Auto Show 2008
Sep 15, 2008 - Hiking Black Tusk
It seems that I get in one major hike each year. This time I went to Black Tusk with David.
We did it as a day-hike, and that was a long day, but very incredible.
Jun 14, 2008 - Inglemoor Graduation
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This year we had two graduating seniors. It was at the same venue where I graduated. | |
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Andrew was on one side of the floor and Jessica was on the other, so we couldn't be close to both. Andrew's mortar cap is the tallest one. |
Jun 04, 2008 - Prom, Piano & Pops
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This has been a busy end-of-school year season. Since we have two seniors, they went to Prom. | |
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Andrew took his friend Katy. |
May 24, 2008 - Park Afternoon
May 23, 2008 - Andrew's Hair Spike
May 22, 2008 - John & God's Kingdom
I have a friend, John, that is near the end of a fight with cancer.
His wife Margie has a blog about their experience. It is interesting, funny, poignant, and significant. In one of the last entries, she talked about how although John's body is quickly failing, his inner self is growing and strengthening.
A conversation had brought up an old terrifying memory from his childhood. Through prayer, God was able to put His peace over top of the memory and change its present effects. God's Kingdom just expanded in John's heart.
I don't know why God wants John to walk this road - and be taking his wife and young children along as he travels. My heart hurts for their hurt. And yet in this, John Fawcett is calling us - like John the Baptist did - to continued preparation of our hearts for God's Kingdom.
May 15, 2008 - It's not evolution
An article in today's Seattle Times gives credit to evolution for a quick change in the kinds of stickleback fish in Lake Washington. However, that is not so clear.
Half a century ago, Lake Washington was very polluted and murky. It has since been cleaned-up, and its waters today are clear and swimmable. Natural selection pressures on the native stickleback fish therefore would have changed as well. Sticklebacks now have a much more difficult time hiding from their primary predator, cutthroat trout.
The stickleback is an unusual fish, in that it doesn't have scales. Instead the fish has bony armor plating. Certain types of the fish are completely covered in armor. However, there is a lot of variety in this feature, and other sticklebacks have less plating, or none at all.
May 02, 2008 - Squirrel Diversity
I was watching a couple of squirrels playing in a tree outside my window and remembered this comment I read in a paper (the 2nd letter to the editor). The squirrels we usually see in the Pacific Northwest are not native to this area. They are an aggressive new-comer that has pushed out two other native species. The writer was saying this is bad and that we should not encourage the interlopers.
"Ahh, but isn't that evolution in action? Darwinian evolution is the natural course of events and has been going on for millions of years successfully diversifying the bio-system, right? Why should we ineffectually subvert what should be happening?
Apr 26, 2008 - Cognitive Surplus & Sharing of Creativity
So I have my website (that your are reading) with stuff from my life on it. Others have Facebook pages or make videos and put them on YouTube.
Where does all this stuff come from? According to this interesting article (also linked above) it comes from a cognitive surplus in society. The interesting thing is that he says that there have been other civic surpluses. Initially society didn't know what to do with them and for a time wasted them. But then people found out how to put these surpluses to good use for everybody.
Apr 20, 2008 - Sunday Afternoon with Friends
Apr 18, 2008 - April Snows
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This April is very crazy! Last Saturday was an exceptionally warm day. Today was an exceptionally wintery day! We had frozen precipitation most of the day. | |
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This is the view in front of our house. |
Apr 16, 2008 - Mark Henderson's Photos
My brother-in-law Mark drives to work through the region north of Bellingham and has been taking pictures of the area scenery. Mark's scenery photos are very beautiful!
