I love the "What’s In Your Bag?" Flickr pool where people can post up the contents of their day packs or bags for the world to see. Pure gadget and manpurse (murse) pr0n.
I’ve even put up one myself in the past (though I need to update with my new canvas bag).
Anyway, this is the best entry I’ve ever seen, hands down.
More pics to come soon on the Flickr page as soon as we get them downloaded from the camera… but WOW what a crazy day!
Here’s the preliminary judgement… she has Anna’s nose and my lips. She also seems to have my stern look when she’s frustrated 🙂
Thanks to everyone for the well wishes via email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, text messages and thanks to those who stopped by the hospital to see Mary Hudson. We’re logging all of these for Mary Hudson to enjoy and reflect on when she’s older.
Mom and baby are sleeping soundly after an exciting 24 hours and I’m getting ready to join them.
I can’t process how excited I am to be this beautiful little girl’s dad, and I hope I live up to her expectations that she clearly expresses every time she opens her eyes and looks me in the face. Talk about a perspective changing experience!
More soon…
mary hudson getting weighed and measured on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Mary Hudson Harrelson entered the world this morning at 6:30am.
She’s beyond beautiful. The delivery was wonderful and an amazing experience for everyone.
You can follow updates on our Flickr page:
We’re in the hospital tonight awaiting the arrival of Baby Harrelson! Contractions started around 5 and intensified until around 9pm when we decided to head to Mission Hospital here in Asheville.
It’s currently 3:00am and we’re progressing nicely… should have a delivery sometime in the next few hours!
You can follow live updates on my Twitter stream (http://www.twitter.com/samharrelson)
More soon!
My life is now complete (via boing boing), a Bible translation project using the popular LOLCat form:
1. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat was invisible, and he maded the skiez and da earths, but he did not eated it.
2. The earths wus witout shapez and wus dark and scary and stuffs, and he rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
Thanks, Jeff D!
When I taught 8th grade science, we spent a considerable amount of time on Archimedes (machines, etc) and eventually Newton and the discovery of the calculus.
This news makes my heart swell as we continue to realize that we 20-21st century westerners weren’t the first to achieve such grand inventions as calculus or even a notion of grasping at the infinite…
Two of the texts hiding in the prayer book have not appeared in any other copy of Archimedes’s work, so no one but Heiberg had studied them until now. One of them, titled The Method, has special historical significance. It could be considered the earliest known work on calculus.
Archimedes wrote The Method almost two thousand years before Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz developed calculus in the 1700s. Reviel Netz, an historian of mathematics at Stanford University who transcribed the text, says that the examination of Archimedes’ work has revealed “a new twist on the entire trajectory of Western mathematics.”
In The Method, Archimedes was working out a way to compute the areas and volumes of objects with curved surfaces, which was also one of the problems that motivated Newton and Leibniz. Ancient mathematicians had long struggled to “square the circle” by calculating its exact area. That problem turned out to be impossible using only a straightedge and compass, the only tools the ancient Greeks allowed themselves. Nevertheless, Archimedes worked out ways of computing the areas of many other curved regions.
I hope my former 8th graders will here the name Archimedes again sometime in their life or career and think back to our class and how we were also grasping at infinity.
Math Trek: A Prayer for Archimedes, Science News Online, Oct. 6, 2007
I love the Beatles. They literally changed my life when I was a punk kid in Mullins, SC.
On the new Wu-Tang Clan album due out later this fall, there’s an interesting track that samples the famous (and lovely) Beatles song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" which appeared on The White Album.
I’ve been hearing a good deal about all of the negotiations that went into making this possible and supposedly the Wu Tang album was delayed for this first ever Beatles sample.
Here’s the song in streaming format… I’ve had it on repeat the whole day. Good stuff:
Wu-Tang Clan – The Heart Gently Weeps
I just purchased the domain name “ClothDiaperDad.com” since Anna and I are going the cloth diaper route.
I’m not sure how I’ll use it, but thought it would be fun as a place to share learning moments and the inevitable mistakes (blowouts?!?) that will come with the use of cloth diapers.
BTW, we’re using BumGenius brand… they work great so far (of course we don’t have a baby just yet… should be soon!):
I’ll be co-presenting at this year’s Blog Wolrd Expo with Stephanie Agresta on Friday Nov 9. This looks like it’s going to be a great show with people such as Leo Laporte, Dave Taylor and my pal Jim Kukral attending and presenting.
If you’re in the Las Vegas area or looking for a reason to head to Vegas in November, I can’t think of a better place to be to learn all about blogging!
I recently found a replica of one of my favorite pieces of art and history, the statue of Ashurnasirpal II in the round from the Temple of Ishtar.
Ashurnasirpal was the ruler of Assyria in the 9th Century BCE and a very interesting historical figure. My little book published by Yale University Press last year (Asia Has Claims Upon New England) was about the artwork in his palace in Nineveh as well as the journey it took from ancient Assyria to modern day New England.
And here is the description of the original (including pictures) from the British Museum site (the original is in London now):
A rare example of an Assyrian statue in the round
Neo-Assyrian, 883-859 BC
From Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern IraqThis statue of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) was placed in the Temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi. It was designed to remind the goddess Ishtar of the king’s piety. It is made of magnesite, and stands on a pedestal of a reddish stone. These unusual stones were probably brought back from a foreign campaign. Kings often boasted of the exotic things they acquired from abroad, not only raw materials and finished goods but also plants and animals.
The king’s hair and beard are shown worn long in the fashion of the Assyrian court at this time. It has been suggested that the Assyrians used false hair and beards, as the Egyptians sometimes did, but there is no evidence for this.
Ashurnasirpal holds a sickle in his right hand, of a kind which gods are sometimes depicted using to fight monsters. The mace in his left hand shows his authority as vice-regent of the supreme god Ashur. The carved cuneiform inscription across his chest proclaims the king’s titles and genealogy, and mentions his expedition westward to the Mediterranean Sea.
The statue was found in the nineteenth century by Henry Layard, the excavator of the temple.
I am a complete dork.
British Museum – Statue of Ashurnasirpal II
