Things You Don’t Want To Hear On Your Commute, As Uttered By A Frantic Wife
“Your son is bleeding from the mouth because he jumped face-first off the couch. Please come back home.” (paraphrased)
Momma Says Spock You OUT.
“Your son is bleeding from the mouth because he jumped face-first off the couch. Please come back home.” (paraphrased)









Count with me, please, exactly how many truly, deeply geeky things are incredibly right about this piece. Kazoos Korg Stylophones Recorders Theremin Thumb piano Cowbell Ukulele Spoons A Keytar Kazoos, for Heaven’s sake! Then, once you’ve whetted your appetite for this kind of thing, be sure to check out Domino’s Hip Hop Medley and their [...]
Bonnie Vasko has already posted a brief summary of Wednesday night’s “inaugural” Philly WordPress Meetup, so I thought I’d simply take a moment to document some of the resources we talked about in the “advanced”/developer session. Hopefully some of the other attendees will find them useful. We talked briefly about Free theme frameworks/parent themes, such [...]
Yowsa. Arduino + a heaping amount of German ingenuity For. The. Win.
I’m extremely excited to announce that I have agreed to take a position with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (aka CHOP) starting in early August. I will be working as a senior Linux administrator in their research department and will get a chance to ply my trade in pursuit of gene sequencing and population studies [...]
Satirists the world over are given a gigantic stage upon which to display their talents. You’ve seen Ok Go’s “This Too Shall Pass”, now watch the pitch-perfect dissection of a fondscarring childhood memory, disguised as a parody of the aforementioned song:
Write down the date — October 30, 2010, the day before Halloween, I’m due to speak at WordCamp Philly down at Temple University in Philadelphia. I’m incredibly honored to be given the chance to speak on a topic near to my heart: Making WordPress Work AT Work. I plan on posting a series of articles [...]
This post is more of a reminder to myself than anything else. It took me a while and a bit of Googling to find the right answer. If you’re using phpPgAdmin to administer PostgreSQL databases and you want to be able to alter records from the web-based interface — i.e., you want each row to [...]
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as interpreted by Sir Ian McKellen: Too, too funny. This, of course, calls to mind this incredible scene from Extras:
I’ve really caught the Mercurial bug recently and have begun chewing coworkers’ ears off about its benefits. I’ve been looking into ways to integrate it into my WordPress-related efforts and, inspired by this recent post on the WP Devel blog announcing a github effort to make WP available via git, I decided to set up [...]





Eek. I hope he’s ok.
Thankfully, he appears to be, although he was very clingy and reticent to let us take a look. It actually turned out to be a two person job just to 1) restrain him and 2) look in his mouth to make sure all his teeth were still intact.
A few sniffles and much hugging later and he appears to be all right. Now we just need to work on this whole “actions have consequences…” thing (a mighty hard concept for 11 month olds to grasp, apparently).
It gets worse. I know it may sound hard to believe, but it gets worse.
Our day just isn’t complete without The Boy (TM) doing a faceplant somewhere, and he’s 3! Of course, he’s made of rubber, and usually laughs it off ( “I fell. It was an axxdent”), but man oh man have we heard a few loud clunks on the hardwood…
His behavior frequently allows me to utter my favorite Hill-ism : “That boy aint right”, and it’s corollary “6am am already that boy ain right”.