Dave Brubeck came to town in December and I went to hear him. Great concert, and Congregation Beth Yeshurun’s sanctuary was not a bad venue. The first half was the Quartet (Bobby Militello, alto sax; Michael Moore, bass; Randy Jones, drums) playing a set of standards. The guys were all in fine form, Brubeck included. […]
Posted on January 15th, 2007 by Nils
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I’ve written about heroes before. While visiting my hometown over Christmas I visited one of my favorite high school teachers, John Randall. I learned that he’s fighting inoperable lung cancer and may not have long to live. His and his wife Dawn’s courage, and the use they’re making of the time he has left, are […]
Posted on January 8th, 2007 by Nils
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It isn’t news to those of you who know Nils and me well: we aren’t pet people. That might be an understatement. We don’t even want a goldfish. I’ve often said I’d rather have another baby than a pet, and I don’t make claims like that lightly.
You pet lovers will be amused to hear that, […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2006 by Araceli
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My application hasn’t been accepted yet, but I’m joining Greg’s No-Hair Club for Men.
The T-shirt is Photoshopped instead of silkscreened, but hey. Maybe I should look into having some of these made as promotional items for the Club ….
Posted on June 2nd, 2006 by Nils
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About three months ago I started publicly charting my blood-sugar levels. Since then I updated two charts daily in order to track a single measure: how well I’m doing at managing my Type-1 diabetes. This got me thinking about how to quantify blood-sugar control in one number instead of two or more.
If you’re diabetes chic […]
Posted on May 25th, 2006 by Nils
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A Houston-area user group for Ruby and Rails is getting off the ground. In our May meeting I’ll be giving a presentation on the Trestle Generator open-source project I started a few months ago. It’s an extension to the Ruby on Rails web application development framework.
Should be a good time. By geek standards, that is.
Posted on April 4th, 2006 by Nils
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Today is the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. In honor of him I offer you this silent, poor-man’s video of me playing a piece by a composer whose work he admired and promoted, namely, J. S. Bach.
That’s not a goatee I’m wearing. I’m picking my nose with a microphone.
This picture was taken at my company’s […]
Posted on January 27th, 2006 by Nils
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The old Houston Municipal Airport, an art-deco structure that was abandoned in 1978, is being refurbished as an aviation museum.
The photo at the right reminds me of Ingrid Bergman with Humphrey Bogart on the tarmac at the end of Casablanca.
Listen to a Houston Public Radio piece about this that I heard this morning, or visit […]
Posted on October 24th, 2005 by Nils
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I just bumped into an interesting social software site. 43 Things is to your life goals and to-do list what Flickr is to your photos. Type a description of something you want to accomplish and you can see how it relates to the goals and experiences of tens of thousands of other users. You can […]
Posted on September 29th, 2005 by Nils
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My favorite corporate identity pundit, Tony Spaeth, probably wouldn’t approve of the Samaritan’s Purse logo. But that’s not the reason why I wrote to them today.
Posted on September 26th, 2005 by Nils
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