Dude, I am so fucking ready for this. This is such a cool time for video games.

Another nice perk about working at this school: tonight I'm running tech for a Q&A with Taylor Branch, the author of The Clinton Tapes.

I believe the interview was secured because one of the parents whose child goes to the school is his agent, or something.

Hi everyone. Hope you're doing well. I have a question for everyone. My nephew is teething something FIERCE right now with FIVE teeth coming in at once. Both my sister (his mom) and I ran low grade fevers with diarrhea when we got teeth like this at that age and lo and behold...poor kid is hurting, has a low grade fever, and diarrhea. I had heard that chamomille tea can help soothe teething pain and I know it tends to help my stomach when it's upset like that. Is it a bad idea to give chamomille tea with diarrhea? I would think it would help fluid intake. I also worry that he won't take the tea by itself (we've never tried before...) so I was wondering at what age is it OK to give kids honey. He's 15 months old now. I've heard 1 year old and over is safe and other places have told me not under 2 years old.

Poor kid is with his parents tonight (a rarity, I know) while I work my "short" overnight shift and my sister is so overwhelmed. Any thoughts or experience?

I had an awesome weekend. :)

Before the winter sets in, I need to share this little piece of wisdom with you:

At the olive farm, they built their fires in the back of the fireplace with their wood leaning against the wall in a little half-teepee. As the wood collapsed into coals, another piece would replace it, leaning on the back wall over the coals.

I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier.

"If every day you properly cared for your body, mind & soul, how much time would that take for you?"

I asked that on Facebook and expected people to be interested, but nobody answered. You start looking at FB and it's painfully empty, hardly anything of substance happens on there. I forgot how I felt when, after using LJ for 5 or 6 years, I started hearing about FB and Twitter: I wondered why it was worth the time considering nobody really said anything. The relationships there seem like people milling around at a party, making small talk, saying "Go Sounders" because it's common ground. I mean, what could you possible say in public that has substance?

I've always preferred the small gatherings at a person's house where there's enough people to have an interesting conversation, but not so many people that the conversation fractures into small groups. To me that's ideal, it's where depth comes out.

Anyway, yesterday I woke up and wrote in my journal, meditated then went for a run. By the time I was showered and ready to go I had spent about 2.5 hours taking care of myself in a way that I feel I should do every day to stay healthy. It's daunting to look at it that way, especially considering these are things best done in the morning (and meditating at night as well).

Anyway, I'm curious how you'd answer that question.

my insurance does not cover a naturopath so i was interested in the vitamins and herbs (And doses) your family takes to stay healthy and prevent illness?
i have a 7 month old who is 23 pounds and an almost 3 year old who is around 29 pounds. i am interested in giving them vitamin D but i have no idea how much to give them. right now i give my 3 year old probiotics (i also give the baby probiotics) and multivitamins. i also give the 3 yr old children vitamin C and fish oil..before and after shots. i give the baby vit c before and after shots.

what vitamins and doses do you guys take yourself?

my son has had 2 double ear infections so far and i would like to stay away from antibiotics. what do you do when the infection causes a fever? that is when i gave my son antibiotics. i think he may have another one now but he has no fever and i'm interested in hearing what natural remedies you guys use to prevemt, take the pain away, and rid an ear infection?

It's officially official, I'm moving to Zurich by end of the year!



I've mentioned the possibility that I might move to my closest friends, but I didn't get final word until a few days ago, so I thought I'd say something publicly about it now...

Some background:

-- Living in Europe has been a dream of mine for years. I've visited the UK and Italy, but that's about it (airports in other countries don't count). There's so much else there I want to experience and from what I hear, Zurich is an excellent hub for traveling around the region.
-- My new project that's getting me over there is the reason I wanted to work at Google in the first place... tackling the issue of information overload head-on. I'm just as excited about this new project as I am about the move.
-- This is something that's been in the works for months... Google is supportive of facilitating these kinds of transfers, but a lot of things have to come together to make them happen. I have many colleagues and friends to thank for helping me out with this opportunity and to them, I am eternally grateful.
-- I'll be there for at least a year and I'm not sure what I'll do after that. I'm pretty thrilled about this aspect of the adventure.
-- I should be relocated sometime towards the end of December. I'll probably do some kind of combo going away/bday party with my bay area peeps before I leave so stay tuned on Facebook for info on that.

Other notables:

-- I'll continue to work on my previous project, Sidewiki, at least for the foreseeable future as it's something I'm still very close to and want to see succeed.
-- I'm going to miss my friends a lot, but I'm hoping you'll all come visit me! Zurich is easily accessed by train or cheap flights from within the EU, so if you find yourself visiting Europe in 2010, put ZRH on your list!
-- I'm incredibly excited to be near Berlin and Paris... two places I've never visited, but have heard so many good things about. My good buddy Jeff is in Berlin and Nathan is in Paris, so it will be fantastic to see them more often.
-- I'll be making the switch after many years of working on client software to working mainly on web and mobile based projects. I'm going to use this opportunity to get back into coding and doing more interactive prototypes.
-- Google's Zurich office is supposed to be super sweet and I'm looking forward to having a smaller company feel for awhile.
-- Skiing and snowboarding are two things I have very little experience with... I'm crossing my fingers that they'll have some bunny hills out there to practice on.
-- I plan to take German lessons and want to make sure I branch out from just socializing with my coworkers. I've heard it can be tough as an outsider to make friends in Zurich, but I'm hoping I can find some fellow music lovers as a way to bridge the gap.
-- I purged a fair amount of my stuff when I moved to SF, but not near as much as I would've liked. I'm going to use this next move as a way to finally slim it all down to just the bare essentials. I've got the international Kindle now so I won't need to take as many books with me and I'm digitizing all of my cds onto a mirrored drive. The only bulky thing that remains is my vinyl collection... I won't have enough time to digitize my records before I leave, so I'll probably just keep them in storage unless someone in the bay area wants to babysit them while I'm gone. I'm hoping to go the projector route finally too as a way to have a more mobile entertainment center.

I take my first trip to Zurich this Friday with a few days in the UK at the end, during which I'm hoping to catch Ryuichi Sakamoto perform his piano pieces in Burmingham (!!!!!!!!).

This new move is probably a good chance to retire my public LJ as well which I haven't been updating that often thanks to Twitter and Facebook. I'll continue to use it for friends-only posts (still baffled that no one else has come up with a better replacement for this), but I think it's time I wrote more often on something I can fully control like WordPress. I'll put a note here once that's live.

Chocolate, fondue, timely public transportation, army knives, fancy time pieces, and neutrality await. Uf Widerluege!

Greetings, all. I am in search of good lard or tallow for cooking in the Denver area. The only lard I've found so far is the Snowcap lard sold at King Sooper's, and it's hydrogenated, ick. Any assistance would be appreciated!

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PS. А последний альбом Кэша (American V: A Hundred Highways), это вообще восхитительно. Есть на musicmp3.

We have this half-gallon carton of Whole Foods orange-peach-mango juice in the fridge. It's good by itself, but I just discovered that if you add rum, lime juice and a drop of almond extract, it makes a pretty convincing imitation Mai Tai.

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An interesting anagram of "BANACH-TARSKI" is "BANACH-TARSKI BANACH-TARSKI".

[why this is funny]

that was the most wonderfully stunningly seriously perfect movie

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bostonsteamer: Who's going to Ultimate? Hopefully this nice weather will hold up and the lightning/hail won't return.

Q: What does a Frenchman say when he wants strawberries in Israel, and he's in a hurry?
A: "Tout suite"

("Toot" is Hebrew for "strawberry")

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bostonsteamer: Did anyone notice anything out of the ordinary on my flickr stream in the past day or so?