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Don’t buy an electric car because it saves the world, or because it’s good for you. Buy an electric car because electric engines outperform gasoline engines in comfort, convenience, and speed.
Witness the Tesla Roadster. Better yet, buy me one.

P.S. Co-incidentally, I just saw “who killed the electric car” and saw a talk by its creator. [...]

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The whole family took a trip to New York’s great American Museum of Natural History. Daughter had been there a year ago, and she was excited to return. She took lots of photos of the gemstone collection, which I couldn’t believe was not against museum policy. But nobody stopped her.
This was Son’s first visit. [...]

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Rendering of the Mayflower by Son. Crayon, collage and watercolor on construction paper.

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For the past few weeks I’ve been, um, just a little bit obsessed with the melodies and lyrics of Sufjan Stevens. Here are two cool free Sufjan links I’ve found:

Interview on KPBS radio in which he explains the meanings of some of the songs from Illinoise

Lord God Bird, a song he recorded for NPR

Both links [...]

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Here’s one of me illustrating the principle that men are the weaker sex. Found at newsweek online.

Original:

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The renowned author cradles his water bottle during a lecture.

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Son has added two books to his reading list. By “reading list” I mean he can read over 80% of the words without help, and asks to read these books by title:

Caps for Sale
Guess How Much I Love You

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My stock photo, actually taken by the Wife, was used in the progressive print magazine “yes!” to illustrate an article about Maine healthcare. At the time, I was living in Maine, and the photo was taken there, so it is appropriate.

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Somebody asked me about tips for processing online images, and this was my reply:
I follow these “rules”:

Always use sRGB profile for Web display (ie, not Adobe RGB or ProPhoto and definitely not CMYK)
DPI is irrelevant for the web; it’s merely a ratio that is important for printing. Think instead in terms of absolute [...]

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Who’s the “star of the week” at Son’s daycare? Why, it’s son, of course.

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