Monthly Archives: May 2006

New Additions!

Posted on May 31, 2006 by jetrotz

In a story that’s raging across the blogosphere, Amy’s first cousin Miriam Celedonia and husband Steve Golus welcomed their twins Chella and Grey, born one minute apart and both weighing in at an uncanny 6lbs 3ozs each, into this world! … Continue reading →

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Meme Alert – Websites as Graphs

Posted on May 31, 2006 by jetrotz

This spiffy web app maps the contents of web pages into a tree with different nodes representing various types of page elements – blue for links, red for tables, green for divs, violet for images, yellow for forms, orange for … Continue reading →

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Video Update: Duet

Posted on May 29, 2006 by jetrotz

A few weeks ago Amy found an old recorder for Sam to play with. He immediately took to blowing through it, and in this video plays along with mom’s French horn. When he first began to get sounds out of … Continue reading →

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Video Update: Itsy-Bitsy Spider

Posted on May 29, 2006 by jetrotz

About a month ago, Sam began to show us the hand motions to the itsy-bitsy spider song. Here, he’s accompanied by our resident musician. Click on ‘play’ triangle to start video on the page.

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Video Update: Sam at the Beach

Posted on May 29, 2006 by jetrotz

I’ve spent some time this weekend working on digitizing and editing videos we’ve taken of Sam over the last six months. The big result of that project was a DVD with all the clips, but I’m slowly working on short … Continue reading →

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MiniReview: Thumbsucker

Posted on May 28, 2006 by jetrotz

Based on the Walter Kirn novel of the same name, Thumbsucker is an interesting little film by first-time director Mike Mills (no relation to the R.E.M. bass player). The film captures well the strained relationships between a teen boy who … Continue reading →

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Wine 2.0

Posted on May 25, 2006 by jetrotz

Okay all you geeks out there – now for something really useful coming out of the Web 2.0 biddness – a fresh-for-2006 site to let you research, catalog and of course – TAG – your wine drinking – WineLog.net. The … Continue reading →

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Class of ‘84

Posted on May 25, 2006 by jetrotz

Three cheers for our new rep to the old alumni magazine Images, Mary Gilbreath! She took it upon herself to organize the original slackers, the Atlanta members of the Savannah Country Day School class of 1984 for cocktails and dinner. … Continue reading →

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[itvt] on CNN Enhanced

Posted on May 24, 2006 by jetrotz

Since the February launch of the CNN Enhanced interactive television product, there has been very little trade coverage of what I think is one of the most interesting and widely distributed domestic ITV projects around – it reaches over 11 … Continue reading →

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In the Tall Grass

Posted on May 23, 2006 by jetrotz

Sam and Amy had a lovely afternoon, hanging in the front yard with some of his friends. Dad had to grab the camera to get this shot of him exploring the pathway among the monkey grass. Gallery is here on … Continue reading →

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