http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm
Albert Mehrabian found that only about 7 percent of the meaning of a message is communicated through verbal exchange [in face to face communication]. About 38 percent is communicated by the use of the voice / tone. About 55 percent (others say even higher) comes through nonverbal – gesture, posture, facial expression, etc.
In spite of [...]

I think we need one of these for the tech office door…

It’s not just conspiracy theorists who think Bush/US Government was more involved in September 11 than they admit. Playwright and Novelist Gore Vidal spoke in detail about the same ideas that bounced around the tech office in the months after the whole plane tower thing.
From the Observer Vidal, 77, and internationally renowned for his award-winning [...]

“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought [...]

5:30 am
Woken up by kids

6:30 am
Woken up by alarm, hit snooze

6:40 am
Hit snooze

6:50 am
Hit snooze

7:00 am
Hit snooze

7:10 am
Get out of bed, shower, eat breakfast, get kids ready

8:20 am
Leave late, miss train

9:30 am
Get to work late

4:30 pm
Sprint to train

5:30 pm
Pick up kids

6:00 pm
Bath kids, cook dinner

6:30 pm
Eat dinner

7:30 pm
Put kids to bed

7:40 pm
Put kids back to [...]

Here’s some photos of my new guitar :

You can click them for bigness

blue sunburst came…picked up after work…very pretty…excellent pickups…onboard eq amazing tonal control …stunning action…d’addario strings from factory nice touch…incredibly playable…can’t type…blisters on fingers…photos later…

ThinkGeek have a great range of geek clothes, including such classic t-shirts as “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1″ and “RTFM”. They also have baby clothes! There’s this little outfit on the left here, as well as one that says “I TCP/IP, but mostly IP”

Got enough money for my birthday and for last Christmas to get a new guitar, as well as a hard case for it. Ordered it on the weekend, it’ll be in Tuesday afternoon/wednesday morning.
It’s an Ibanez AEG10 acoustic electric. I’m hoping for a blue sunburst (see here for a red sunburst, and imagine blue) [...]

I complain a lot, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed. Sometimes I feel like my life is so much worse than everyone else’s. I don’t blog a lot of stuff, but our kids wake up all night, our house is falling apart, everyone we know has either no kids, or ten years more [...]