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So I discovered the other day that my new Mac came bundled with Plasq’s nifty Comic Life, a program that lets you easily drop your photos and other images into comic book layouts, add effects and word balloons, and generally cause you to lose track of time.
I started putting together a simple page last night […]

Just a quick post for now… We are back safely from San Francisco. Thankfully, the house is still standing–no exploding water heaters, no massive wake of feline destruction, nothing. I suppose it’s a good thing we got in when we did, as the news now tells us a plane got diverted to […]

Friday was grey, damp, and cold in Cleveland, which made it an excellent occasion to get the heck out of town and go to sam16 and supercarrot’s wedding in New Jersey. The drive out was mostly in the dark due to Liz’s work schedule, but we still managed to arrive in the Collingswood area […]

Big congratulations to mokatz and his lovely bride Monica, and equally heartfelt best wishes for their new life together! We drove down to Pittsburgh yesterday to watch these two lucky folks commit themselves to the greater adventure of marriage, and to join in the festivities, and I don’t think we could have asked for […]

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oogby and reasie are married! It was a lovely, utterly clear blue day in the park, and a joy to attend and assist with the special day.
We finally got around to seeing Hero on Saturday night. Beautiful! It’s as if Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Rashomon had an impeccably elegant baby. […]

Varietals, our favorite wine bar, is being sold, closing, and will be transformed into something new and unfortunately different. We can’t attend the big farewell celebrations tonight or tomorrow night, so we had our own little going away party last night, just aquamindy, Maureen (the soon-to-be-ex-owner), Josh (soon-to-be-ex-manager), and plenty of good wine and […]

At long last, Andy and Lauren are wed! They are now Mr. and Mrs. Doctor and Doctor Andrew Boyd (insert Spies Like Us joke here). They were married in the fields outside of The Salt Lick’s party pavilion, under a high, graceful canopy of trees. A light, refreshing rain spattered in joyful […]

The big day is finally upon us; Andy and Lauren are finally getting married!
Yesterday was the rehearsal dinner on the River Walk. It was a bit crazy, but everyone had a good time. I took a bunch of photos, some of them good, some of them less good; they’re online now, but I […]

Had a rough day at work, partly because of having to solve other people’s bugs in production, and partly because of the compressed schedule of the day. Liz picked me up around 2:45 this afternoon and we rushed off to the airport. After running the TSA gauntlet, we boarded our tiny little regional […]

Today was Moving Day in the office — the day of my transition from my lousy old cube to my shiny new one. At my old location, there was a sort of open public area that is “graced” with some tables, supposedly to encourage small groups to collaborate there instead of visiting each other’s […]