http://www.tedtedted.com The dad. The entertainer. The cube rat. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:49:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en before getting too excited. I don't think they really have these cool floating cities yet. http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/06/18/check-snopes/ I try not to be surprised when an amateur comes up with a better how-to guide than I've done in a while. http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/05/06/how-to-guide/ Drew is a very nice guy who makes a mean espresso. He works at Ritual Coffee Roasters, about 10 blocks from our house. I spend way too much time there. Here is Drew at the national barista championship in Minneapolis a few minutes ago. Chris Baca, another Ritual great, was ... http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/05/04/285/ Lilly is a pretty good shot. Every picture in this set was done by her, except the first one. It's cool to be reminded of what a place looks like from a view four feet off the ground. http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/04/22/lilly-in-the-house/ I usually don't go in for April Fool's kind of stuff, but this is moderately funny, in a mildly geeky way. http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/04/03/the-w3cs-new-sex-10-specification-oreilly-xml-blog/ The difference between Matt Gonzalez and me is that Matt isn't too lazy to document exactly why the Obama thing is such a scam. I just take it for granted, but Matt magnanimously takes on the burden of proof. http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/02/29/matt-gonzalez-does-my-homework-for-me/ This is currently the best site on the web. (It acceded to the position after this one abdicated recently.) http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/02/23/go-immediately-to-this-site/ My cousin Ian, on his way from Austin to Osaka for some super-brainiac post-doctoral type thing, was stuck on a plane for six hours at San Francisco last Friday night, courtesy of a storm we were having. We brought him home and made him eat some of Mary's chicken pot ... http://www.tedtedted.com/2008/01/08/ian-flies-through/ ...was a blast as expected. Laura was annoyed at the liberties taken with the plot, but I was too busy soaking up the Terry Gilliam silliness to notice. Evil minions in funny hats, fisheye lenses, the whole thing -- it reminded my suddenly how long it's been since Brazil, and ... http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/09/the-golden-compass/ My dad's dad passed away in November at 95. He became a Lutheran minister in 1935 and served in about 10 churches, ending up in Madison, Wisconsin. Laura and I joined the family for the funeral in Minneapolis, where Opa had lived in retirement. Then we all drove to Madison ... http://www.tedtedted.com/2007/12/08/opas-funeral/