Archive for January, 2007

Michael Yon Reprise

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

This is a really old post by Michael Yon, but it’s still good to reread it on occasion. It deals with the dangers of speculating on legal cases as well as the dangers of printing news items without their proper context. Please, do go read the whole thing.

Live The Flavor

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Doritos is evidently running a contest where you film a commercial for them and if you win, they’ll show it during the super bowl . According to the Confederate Yankee, these guys filmed the following commercial for less than $13. And it’s pretty funny in much the same way that FedEx commercials […]

New Toy for Daddy (and Mommy)

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Wendy and I splurged on a new camera, one of the fancy DSLR ones. It’s a Nikon D40. It is sweet, let me tell you. I’ve already taken over 300 pictures with it in less than two weeks (including the ones from Betsy’s birthday party in the previous post). Everything is […]

Betsy’s 2nd Birthday Party

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

We held another birthday party for Betsy — the first was family only — and her friends at the Red Sun Chinese Buffet. It went really well with all of the children getting to eat from the buffet, learn to sing “If you’re happy and you know it” in Mandarin, and only two children […]