Happy New Year !
We're back at work and school and still playing with our favorite xmas gifts. Hope everybody else has a great holiday season.
Along with the new year, it seemed a good time to give the blog a new look and feel. Hope people like it and if not, there's only 340 days or so till we change it again.
Speaking of xmas gifts, Grandpa Gene knocked the ball out of the park twice for the kids xmas gifts. He sent Lily a reusable vinyl Disney Princess dress up book and Jacob a ginormous Tonka front-end loader. Both kids had to be told "TIME TO OPEN OTHER PRESENTS.....ONE....TWO....!"
I'm currently bummed that my favorite movie reviewer, David Edelstein, is leaving my favorite online magazine, Slate, to go to New York magazine which is a real nightmare of design AND it's hard to tell whose reviews are whose (or is that who's are who's?). All good things must come to an end.
Other Slate news is their new feature on the meaning of life which is sorta hosted/directed/facilitated by Robert Wright who has a couple of really interesting books out, including Nonzero. Meaningoflife is a series of short interviews with scientists, theologians, philosophers, and other interesting people talking about what it's all about.
