http://original.solidether.net Design, Programming & Whitespace Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:13:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whatever your wish for... http://original.solidether.net/2007/02/03/sweet-princess/ Watch what happens if you try to give her a poison apple. http://original.solidether.net/2007/02/01/tough-princess/ Lower School Spanish teacher finds missing grade book. Tells search crews, "Never mind." The search for the book, containing the Spanish grades of Hackley School third and fourth graders, involved a large scale dismantling of the Hackley Lower School building by professional crews trained for just such an emergency. (See picture ... http://original.solidether.net/2006/03/07/grade-book-recovered/ The other evening I was writing code to rebuild "Find Coltrane" with Ruby on Rails instead of PHP. Before I went to bed I read something from "The Pickaxe Book" and then set it on my nightstand. In the morning, I discovered that all 832 pages had fallen off the nightstand ... http://original.solidether.net/2005/11/20/programming-ruby-makes-you-blind/ Here's a Photo Set of Anne and Eva visiting the Christo & Jean Claude installation of The Gates in Central Park. They made it down to the city on the last day of the exhibit. http://original.solidether.net/2005/03/27/anne-eva-at-the-gates/ Well I finally added something to the Photo Set section of the website but I can't take credit for creating the images. I have a screensaver called Fracture that I've been messing around with, and Fracture created the Fractals Photo Set. Fracture uses various mathematical algorithms to generate fractal images. Fractals ... http://original.solidether.net/2005/03/08/math-made-art/ Well sure. It would be nice to be able to see the real installation of Christo and Jean-Claude's The Gates. If you can get to Central Park I highly recommend it. Here's an alternative if you happen to live in Massachussetts and you can't make it to New York. (Thanks ... http://original.solidether.net/2005/02/21/christos-got-nothing-on-this-guy/ Like when you get to this part… of Tito Puente's Oye Como Va performed by Santana. http://original.solidether.net/2005/02/09/some-moments-are-too-sweet-for-words/ A few months ago, our friend Aamir made a gift of a special book to Eva. The other night as I was unable to sleep at 2:30 AM, I read the 110 pages of "The Old Man Mad About Drawing"  by François Place with much delight. The story is ... http://original.solidether.net/2005/02/07/the-old-man-mad-about-drawing/ Well the wind has changed at 218 Gordon Ave. Our friend and nanny Marilú Vasquez has returned to her home in Lima, Peru. To say we will miss her doesn't quite get it. Being able to endure 200+ screenings of Mary Poppins was impressive. Having someone so completely competent ... http://original.solidether.net/2004/12/04/our-very-own-mary-poppins/