Labor and delivery in a modern hospital exposes you to some amusing tech gadgets. There is a computer on wheels by your bed that displays a graph of your baby's (OK, fetus's) heart rate, and a graph of your contractions. Sometimes a nurse comes in to check on you, and pulls up another patient's graphs besides yours -- multitasking, I guess. So you ( Read more... )

The "Sadly we are not at #Fencon" party was better than many convention parties I've been to. And that's not just sour grapes speaking! #

An engineer couple at the Center For Inquiry Secular Family gathering brought remote-controlled cars which they made jump off a ramp. #

But remote-controlled cars were not nearly as exciting to Erika as a ball- ( Read more... )

Weird stuff at MT Asian supermarket: Vegetarian Intestine. Made of yam flour and cornstarch, shaped as an honest-to-goodness intestine. #

Another head scratcher at the MT Asian supermarket: "Dried Wood Skin". It looks like brown, dry, hair-thin weeds. Googling doesn't help. #

Procrastination can be worthwhile. Case in point: after a Windows ( Read more... )

• 20:45 One guy at a party has just given me an extensive tour of his Android phone. It looks really tempting to me! More so than iPhone. #
• 21:15 Now I need to ask another friend to give me a test-drive of her iPhone. And I may be all set to choose my next smartphone! #
• 22:18 Twittering from someone's Android. Slowly finding my way around. Keyboard ( Read more... )

Am in Waco, at a new Starbucks on I-35. Well, it's new to me: it wasn't here the last time I made the trek between Dallas and Austin, but that was years ago. I have not noticed many new wireless coffeeshops (or any new coffeeshops, really) along this rustic stretch of Texas, not counting a Chik-Fil-A somewhere north of Waco that claimed to have ( Read more... )

A few months ago I bought my first smartphone, an AT&T Tilt. I have now had it long enough to become well familiar with it, and I have never ceased to enjoy it. I had experienced a few minor usability glitches at the beginning, but they were quickly forgotten.

( The activation was a bit confusing )

In short, it was a success. I needed not have feared that it would be slow. Nor was it wild and crazy (not my preference either). Just... intense, in a peaceful way. The ACA, CFI and FACT groups mingled pretty well ( Read more... )

I suppose I can't really call this post a book review, otherwise I would have to review each story in this anthology. And I'm not going to do that. So, call it what you will ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon there came a point where I was feeling too crappy to work. So I came home and just lied on the couch for an hour or so, unable to do anything useful and intimidated by the prospect of still having to go to the old apartment and clean. After about an hour I felt better. My stomach still hurt, but the intense fatigue -- the kind ( Read more... )

The move to a new apartment took place yesterday. The movers were supposed to show up between 12 and 2 p.m. So we figured that will give Steve and the movers plenty of time to transport all the stuff, and I'll head to the new apartment after work around 7 p.m., feed the baby and then go back to the old apartment, clean it and pick up the remaining ( Read more... )