Martin will turn three shortly and we seem to have hit upon what I imagine folks refer to as the “terrible twos”. I’ve also been given uplifting advice such as “two wasn’t nearly as bad as three… oh and wait till they get to four.”
In keeping with the theme of Maritn’s use of language, I [...]
July 25, 2009MartinNo commentsI woke the family up early in the morning, 5:18am to be exact, and shifted us into high gear to make the Link light rail inaugural train ride.
This one trip emphasized the need for light rail before we even made it to the ribbon cutting ceremony.
We walked over a bus top and arrived 10 minutes [...]
July 18, 2009Family, Martin, SeattleNo commentsMartin’s latest word fun fest involves his desired location in relation to a specific person.
A new favorite of ours is:
Pick me down
A variation of “pick me up” of course. Awesome.
Also interesting is his use of:
sit on my lap
What he really means is, “Let me sit on your lap”.
January 14, 2009MartinNo commentsMartin’s figured out he can swap words around within a sentence and that doing so might provoke a different outcome.
Sometimes it doesn’t work.
I want not go outside
moments later…
I not want go outside
Besides testing his world with language, Martin has many phrases (often used in a socially unacceptable ways) that tend to [...]
December 6, 2008Martin1 commentI’m at the W3C TPAC, in Mandelieu, France, doing my small part to keep the web moving forward. It is always said that the best part of any conference is the non-standard face-to-face meetings: hallway chats, chance encounters, lunches, and dinners. I’ve been doing my best to take advantage of these moments, like hanging out [...]
October 23, 2008Technology3 commentsA good overview of the “demoable” bits of HTML 5 (it is hard or too boring to demo lots of the parsing, dom consistency, error handling changes).
September 26, 2008TechnologyNo commentsMartin has been itching to climb anything he can find at the playgrounds near our house. Last week he finally figured out the rope ladder, video after the cut.
August 30, 2008MartinNo commentsMatt Haughey talks about how weblog comments have become nothing more than 1-up showmanship.
His post gets to the heart of why I’ve disabled comments on my personal weblogs for the last couple year. When we started up this blog, I decided to enable comments because we do enjoy talking with family, friends, and strangers. Additionally [...]
August 28, 2008Technology4 commentsI’ll start by saying I’m by no means an accessibility expert, etc etc etc and this is just a general summary of the state of things… not an endorsement of any one proposal, method, group/faction/junta/cabal/etc.
If you were following but dropped out of the <img> & @alt discussion going on in HTML 5 for the last [...]
August 26, 2008TechnologyNo commentsSeattle Transit Blog pointed to an interview in the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce with current Bellevue mayor, Grant Degginger (the article is behind a pay-wall, boo):
Q. How do you make Bellevue more walkable? A. Bellevue was laid out as a suburban city and one of the legacies of that [...]
August 25, 2008SeattleNo commentsVideo Link: The Beatles – Golden Slumbers. Performed by Gerry Phillips, Manualist.
I found this piece when earlier today Steven Frank linked to Gerry’s Star Wars Cantina Song rendition.
What I like best about Gerry’s work is that he takes his craft seriously but also seems to humbly accept it is a gimmick. The material he covers [...]
August 21, 2008EntertainmentNo commentsBecause I’m avoiding yet another resurgence of the @alt debate in HTML 5, here’s an article from the Wall Street Journal about how one San Francisco citizen is attempting to halt improvements to the city’s bike infrastructure: (emphasis mine)
New York is wooing cyclists with chartreuse bike lanes. Chicago is spending nearly $1 million [...]
August 21, 2008Fitness, SeattleNo commentsEveryBlock is available in Seattle now and it is perfect for sifting through online records by local street address. For instance, I was able to easily look up our favorite grocery store, PCC Natural Markets in Fremont. From the EveryBlock detail page I bounced over to a list of recent inspections and I could see [...]
August 18, 2008Seattle, TechnologyNo comments