The Third Bit

At quarter after ten last night, in our pajamas, Sadie and I signed the papers to buy a new house.  (Well, new for us: it was built in the 1920s, and the previous owner lived in it for 51 years.)  This afternoon I picked up a check at the bank and handed it over to the real estate agent as a down payment.  It seemed like such a small piece of paper, considering everything that was riding on it… We take possession at the end of August; lots of renos to do (knob and tube wiring — yee hah), but we’re very excited.

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Everyone’s making good progress:

• Ming and Bing have posted their second demo — next step is to do some serious design of the final product.
• After correcting an earlier post of mine, Xuan has blogged a fuller description of what she and Edward are building.
• Zeev Lieber posted a brief summary of what Dmitri and William did last term. Dmitri’s still wrestling with GWT exceptions.
• Jeff Balogh shortens his build.
• Matthew Basset sent his first data.
• Joseph Yeung is converting an EXE to an MMC.
• Victoria Mui completes a subtask.
• Daniel Servos likes Moodle plugins.
• Qiyu Zhu can edit roles.
• Nick Jamil provides more details.
• Qi Yang bursts into song.

Oh, and it looks like I’m going to get a grant from The MathWorks to upgrade the Software Carpentry course and find out what scientists are actually doing with computers — more on that once I know whether Sadie and I have bought a house or not.

Announcements, Family, Software Carpentry

StreetKnit got a mention in Vogue Knitting‘s Spring/Summer 2008 issue — w00t!

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Madeleine is now a year, two weeks, and one day old. Still only has two teeth, but love gnawing on bananas (and occasionally fingers); walkin’ up a storm, and we’re the proud owners of two hand-painted… um… paintings.

So this seems like as good a time as any to put in a plug for the Pogy Travel Crib:

It folds up into a disk about the size of two frisbees stacked on one another, weights half a kilo, sets up in seconds, and is easy to clean. If you’re doing the rounds of friends & family with a newborn, I can’t say enough good things about it.

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Madeleine started walking on Saturday.  Nothing tentative about it—she just decided she was done with crawling, so she started staggering like a drunken Finn in high seas across the living room floor.  And the kitchen floor.  And the upstairs hallway.  And, well, you get the picture.  Yay Maddie!

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Please welcome my newest nephew, Caden Lewis Anand Vivegananthan, to the world.  He arrived Monday (8 lb, 2 oz); mother and child are doing well, and Esan is thrilled—just thrilled—to have a baby brother.

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Pictures of babies in Google Gear.  Here’s Maddie:

and here is one from Titus. More?

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Just in time for the fall, we have a spiffy new back yard.

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