Oh the spoils of another work week

Central Fun

A concrete castle in winter turns into an intricate aquaduct in
summer. S'all fun.

Bryan doing geek tourism in Chicago

I'm High Green with envy

Eme gets his belt.

Snippet

Just one of all the beautiful moments that make up my day spent with
the kids.

Kapla kreators

Show'n off Eme's solo creation.

Happy Delphie

12 years...animal style!

Celebrated 12 years marriage. No Chris (back in NYC w/ kids) but as
stand in I treated the Grahams to In-n-Out.

Requisite stories of Tamagochi and speeding tickets from wedding were
told.

That's what I call a go!

Liftoff!!!

Little Boys Dreaming

Coney Island!

Delphie at the Aquarium

Baker Homestead On Street View

Was just wandering the by-ways of Google Maps and noticed that Tennessee now be represent'n.

Over on Peanut Road you can actually see the house...

Next step? Stalk up and down Long Creak in search of either runners or two dogs raising hell.

PS
I had to do some "fancy" cut and pasting to get these images onto the blog. You'll wanna do a maps search on the address to walk around on your own...

Princess in her pretty new dress

At Turner field

Mets vs Braves

Never a Dull Moment

Our neighbors in TriBeCa woke up to a big cloud of dust this morning.
When it settled down it turned out an old vacant building had
collapsed. It took place just 2 blocks from where Delphie goes to
therapy. Thankfully, her building is in better shape.

Lego fun

Why can't every day be filled with Lego meetings like on BYCTWD?

At the Lincoln Memorial

E walked from M street to the Lincoln Memorial and back without
complaint. It was a mob there but still a good start to the trip.

High Yellow!

Eme brings home the GOLD!

Eme sparing in the first of three matches. He brought home a fourth place in his devision! Pretty impressive for being the only yellow belt to place.

Eme Tests For High Yellow

Emerson's Belt test was today for High Yellow. We'll get the results in later this week, but he did a great job and worked really hard. He did his entire form without any prompting at all and his sparring was pretty tight!

Happy

Delphie on a zipline: can't get any happier than that.

Hazards of napping when Del is not.

Google Ad Auction

    One of the most frequent questions I get from family and friends is how the heck does Google make money. Watch the video on this linked to blog post for a great explanation of Google's ad auctioning process.

Incidentally, Hal is one of the most brilliant folks working at Google and I never miss a chance to hear him talk.    

Official Google Blog: Introduction to the ad auction 7:43am

Source: googleblog.blogspot.com

When we go to conferences or read posts in forums, we find that advertisers sometimes know more about advanced features than about the basics of how AdWords works. So, we've decided to take some time to get back to basics and talk about how the AdWords auction actually works. ...

At B&N

School got canceled yesterday due to the heavy snow, so we spent the
morning at the bookstore.

Holtz!!!

Eme goes Oak and busts some boards at Taekwando.

Gmail goes offline - that's a good thing

Google Makes Gmail Available Offline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2:50pm

Source: bits.blogs.nytimes.c...

The biggest drawback of Web-based software, including e-mail programs like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft’s Hotmail, is that they don’t work when users are offline — say, while on an airplane or on the road without access to a Wi-Fi connection.

Towers of media

Rigging ready to move plane.

You can see the silhouette of the rigging which'll be pulling the plane (can't see it in this pick) from the water later today. My inability to get a good photo remains hampered by the iPhone - sorry.

The activity around the park was far less this morning as most of everyone (with a brain) is taking shelter from the teen temperatures (11) inside or in cars - the notable exception being the media which needs something to broadcast on the morning shows. One lucky reporter appeared to land a survivor. That is I assume he was a survivor as he was the only person around not wearing a season appropriate coat and the only other bit of outer wear he had was what I'm pretty sure was a red cross towel.

Also lumbering around this morning were a handful of NTSB folk. I'm not sure if that is a cool job or an amazingly morbid job.

Oh well, assumedly this'll be all done with by the time I head home later today.

No, that fuselage isn't the Loch Ness.

Chris and I are not going to become New York Times reporters any time soon with this portfolio, but here are a few more pictures we captured from today's events...

I did my best to touch up these first three photos by Chris (aka I don't know how to turn off a flash)...



(picture of Hudson from the apartment. The first tug boat comes into view with the plane just out of sight to the right)

Emi who is normally very happy with staying inside finally decided that actually seeing a large plane float by the window was just enough reason to go out and take a look around.

(The plane is now "clearly" visable on the right as it comes in view past the apartment building. The three white streeks are the fuselage, tail and left wing.)

I actually think the next picture is the Loch Ness Monster....

I took this last photo just a few minutes ago. They have most of the area blocked off. What you see here is what I think is the left wing poking up just on the other side of the wall....

The fire department, police and tones of other folks are in full force around here. It was crazy with them all rushing around when I came home earlier. Thank goodness they have plenty of big buses to go hang out in as it is frig'n cold out there. Being only out for 30 minutes and I felt my cheeks were going to break off.

My best guess is they'll be fiddling with this all night. It wouldn't surprise me if they waited for daylight to pull it from the water.

If the Nessy shows up again we'll be ready with more smeared images for you faithful readers.

Hudson Plane

Homemade biscuits

Bryan was craving some Southern cooking ...

My Busy Little Artists