So don't worry, those in Seattle, these pictures aren't Chicago or Detroit, but after tonight they could be, I suppose. The snow is really coming down, but it's beautiful and fluffy too.
Jon got these pictures as an email from someone at his work.
Stay warm, everyone! Give Molly a snuggle for us...
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Molly is teething?!?!?!
Hey guys! We haven't posted new Molly pics in awhile so I thought I would get on that. So we think she might be teething! Oh no! We're not 100% sure & if she is she is crazy early. We got all concerned b/c she was really fussy for us this weekend. We called her doc & from her symptoms they think our little tyke might be cutting a tooth. However her fussiness has stopped even if the droll hasn't. ;) She may have just had the flu that I just got. Yuck! :-P I have to say I miss sick days (kinda hard to take a day off when you're a mom). Okay I'm going to finish posting these pics then take a nap. :)
Extra good-bits
This is mostly for Ian, but I'm getting a little HTML under my belt these days--thank the website I guess. In the last post, I used the <a href> </a> clause to display the link. There's, to my mind, nearly infinite ways to create a link, but the one I keep coming back to most often is this one and it allows the inclusion of an extra piece (target="_blank") which does something potentially VERY useful! - open another window.
When your link looks like this:
<a href="NAME OF SITE.COM" target="_blank">NAME YOUR LINK</a>
(just replace the name of side and the name of link with whatever you like--do this on the "edit html" tab of the blog window) then you've got a link to wherever you want that reads whatever you want AND it opens a brand new window.
Pretty schnazzy ;0
It's really weird that this is descried as an unsavory tactic, seems like most links to external sites can be handled this way--and when you put the default target to blank in the header BUT change internal links back to self to prevent new windows WITIHN a site...seems just plain smart. Anyway, I also had some fun finding a javascript media-player I hope you enjoy.
And, lastly, let me leave you with with "the album meme" should you want to create your own album covers such that currently gracing my recordings page.
Instructions:
1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
When your link looks like this:
<a href="NAME OF SITE.COM" target="_blank">NAME YOUR LINK</a>
(just replace the name of side and the name of link with whatever you like--do this on the "edit html" tab of the blog window) then you've got a link to wherever you want that reads whatever you want AND it opens a brand new window.
Pretty schnazzy ;0
It's really weird that this is descried as an unsavory tactic, seems like most links to external sites can be handled this way--and when you put the default target to blank in the header BUT change internal links back to self to prevent new windows WITIHN a site...seems just plain smart. Anyway, I also had some fun finding a javascript media-player I hope you enjoy.
And, lastly, let me leave you with with "the album meme" should you want to create your own album covers such that currently gracing my recordings page.
Instructions:
1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Ra
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.ph
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesti
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
Google-pages is fantastic!
As I was showing Dad at our belated Christmas, Google-pages is pretty neat.
I'm tickled pink that they'll host your website for FREE! The only downside is that you have a very - very lame domain name. Also, for those curious, I haven't seen an uptick in spam yet, and I'm fully google-able.
At the moment, my site has two sections, I've been creating a website to assist a bunch of new players in a league we're doing - when you've already done all the legwork for someone the game becomes just difficult to learn (instead of having Antarctic glacial cliff-like barriers to entry) instead of nigh impossible.
The other section is a (growing) collection of my low-fi covers of infinitely more famous recording artists. And to circle the wagons right back to Christmas, I'm using Laura's MP3 player to do the recordings (also a Christmas gift) - but most importantly the guitar Mom & Dad gave me. Thanks! And, enjoy
I'm tickled pink that they'll host your website for FREE! The only downside is that you have a very - very lame domain name. Also, for those curious, I haven't seen an uptick in spam yet, and I'm fully google-able.
At the moment, my site has two sections, I've been creating a website to assist a bunch of new players in a league we're doing - when you've already done all the legwork for someone the game becomes just difficult to learn (instead of having Antarctic glacial cliff-like barriers to entry) instead of nigh impossible.
The other section is a (growing) collection of my low-fi covers of infinitely more famous recording artists. And to circle the wagons right back to Christmas, I'm using Laura's MP3 player to do the recordings (also a Christmas gift) - but most importantly the guitar Mom & Dad gave me. Thanks! And, enjoy
Saturday, January 19, 2008
More Molly Pics
As promised to mom, some more Molly pics and a few new videos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ian.huff/MollyElizabethVI
Molly <3 Matt Hasselback
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5545019892251072100&hl=en
Tummy time on Laura's quilt
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=118871373764283071&hl=en
Ian Feeds molly
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5396775400414112687&hl=en
~Ian
http://picasaweb.google.com/ian.huff/MollyElizabethVI
Molly <3 Matt Hasselback
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5545019892251072100&hl=en
Tummy time on Laura's quilt
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=118871373764283071&hl=en
Ian Feeds molly
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5396775400414112687&hl=en
~Ian
Monday, January 14, 2008
The raw stats
Just got back for taking lunchtime off to go with Liz to Molly's two month checkup. In case you are interested here are the stats for our big girl:
Weight: 13lbs 4oz (95th percentile)
Height: 23 1/2 inches (90th percentile)
Head: 15 3/4 inches (75th percentile)
I'm thinking either Volleyball frontline or WNBA power forward personally...
Not as camera happy as over Christmas, but I have taken a few new shots over the last week or so. I'll get them up and posted sometime this week.
~Ian
Weight: 13lbs 4oz (95th percentile)
Height: 23 1/2 inches (90th percentile)
Head: 15 3/4 inches (75th percentile)
I'm thinking either Volleyball frontline or WNBA power forward personally...
Not as camera happy as over Christmas, but I have taken a few new shots over the last week or so. I'll get them up and posted sometime this week.
~Ian
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Ian's paternity leave reading
Hey guys, I put this together for some of the other sci-fi / fantasy readers at my office, but I figured that I would share it here as well.
~Ian
Extras, by Scott Westerfeld
The first book that I read over break was to finish up the Uglies series. Steve recommended these to me, so you probably all know about them already. This final book was an ok finale to the end of the main trilogy. While I enjoyed the book I couldn’t shake the idea that this was a cash-in addendum to a popular series that had not been planned from the start. In addition, the characterization of some of the returning characters was a little lame to me.
Anyways, if you happen to not be familiar this is a young adult series that is dang fun to read at any age. It has cute themes (most of the books have an obvious Just So Stories moral about something like trust or friendship) with a pervasive original sci-fi bent. Extras was just alright but the series is still a favorite of mine.
Snake Agent, by Liz Williams
Now here is a good elevator pitch for a pulp novel, “World-weary Chinese detective (married to a demoness on the DL) travels to hell solve a series of bizarre murders with his demon partner.” And yes, while this is not high literature by any stretch of the imagination, I had fun with this novel and I’m looking forward to starting the next book in this series. To be honest, it really is just a pulp detective novel in structure, just with a very bizarre setting (think A Chinese Ghost Story) which I think appealed to me, since the usual film noir setting of most detective novels turns me right off.
The Terror, by Dan Simmons
As long as you have the time this would be my biggest recommendation out of the books I read. It is essentially the arctic survival tale of Ordeal By Ice by Farley Mowat crossed with an unnamed horror from a Stephen King novel. It’s a neat combo with all the goodies of both genres: ships sticking in ice, shadow shapes in the fog, dog sled expeditions, natives, bloody murders on the ice, incompetent leaders and cannibalism. It was something like 800 pages but I finished it in about two days, although the massive video game binge that I was coming off might have contributed to my speedy reading. Very good stuff.
Territory, by Emma Bull
Here is another odd concept for a book, a retelling of the story of the O.K. Corral shootout with hints of dark magic involved. I picked this up from an Amazon.com best-of list and felt that it was pretty solid. It’s much lighter than many of the other books that I read and even though there is plenty of death and dark magic its tone is always pretty joking / upbeat (think Firefly). I actually think that this has some pretty heavy romance elements to it and I think that I’m going to recommend it to Liz next. The only downside is a rather disjointed ending. I’m actually going to go back and reread the ending myself to see if I can make better sense of it this time. The disjointedness is especially odd to me as the rest of the book is quite straightforward.
~Ian
Extras, by Scott Westerfeld
The first book that I read over break was to finish up the Uglies series. Steve recommended these to me, so you probably all know about them already. This final book was an ok finale to the end of the main trilogy. While I enjoyed the book I couldn’t shake the idea that this was a cash-in addendum to a popular series that had not been planned from the start. In addition, the characterization of some of the returning characters was a little lame to me.
Anyways, if you happen to not be familiar this is a young adult series that is dang fun to read at any age. It has cute themes (most of the books have an obvious Just So Stories moral about something like trust or friendship) with a pervasive original sci-fi bent. Extras was just alright but the series is still a favorite of mine.
Snake Agent, by Liz Williams
Now here is a good elevator pitch for a pulp novel, “World-weary Chinese detective (married to a demoness on the DL) travels to hell solve a series of bizarre murders with his demon partner.” And yes, while this is not high literature by any stretch of the imagination, I had fun with this novel and I’m looking forward to starting the next book in this series. To be honest, it really is just a pulp detective novel in structure, just with a very bizarre setting (think A Chinese Ghost Story) which I think appealed to me, since the usual film noir setting of most detective novels turns me right off.
The Terror, by Dan Simmons
As long as you have the time this would be my biggest recommendation out of the books I read. It is essentially the arctic survival tale of Ordeal By Ice by Farley Mowat crossed with an unnamed horror from a Stephen King novel. It’s a neat combo with all the goodies of both genres: ships sticking in ice, shadow shapes in the fog, dog sled expeditions, natives, bloody murders on the ice, incompetent leaders and cannibalism. It was something like 800 pages but I finished it in about two days, although the massive video game binge that I was coming off might have contributed to my speedy reading. Very good stuff.
Territory, by Emma Bull
Here is another odd concept for a book, a retelling of the story of the O.K. Corral shootout with hints of dark magic involved. I picked this up from an Amazon.com best-of list and felt that it was pretty solid. It’s much lighter than many of the other books that I read and even though there is plenty of death and dark magic its tone is always pretty joking / upbeat (think Firefly). I actually think that this has some pretty heavy romance elements to it and I think that I’m going to recommend it to Liz next. The only downside is a rather disjointed ending. I’m actually going to go back and reread the ending myself to see if I can make better sense of it this time. The disjointedness is especially odd to me as the rest of the book is quite straightforward.
Monday, January 7, 2008
...and now, new from the Wizarding community...
Here's the link to great pictures of the wizards I painted on commission for Bruce Hirst and Hirst Arts. He's got some great photos of the wizards on his game board, and at the bottom even some nice closeups of the minis themselves!
Yay!
Yay!
our Christmas pics finally up!
I just got some last pictures from Jon's grandma, so here are some of the photos from our Virginia trip. They are all from Christmas morning; the first is Jon's (great uncle?) D.E. frying the oysters, and the rest are from our time at the theater, eating breakfast and watching the kids open gifts and read the Christmas story. There are a lot of pics of Jon playing the guitar with his cousin Aaron "helping." And the foam sword...well, it was a prop, so it appears in a lot of the photos!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Seattle Christmas 2007
I went a little crazy with my camera, as I am wont to do, but I narrowed the album down to just the 73 best shots. And Molly didn't seem to mind the camera flash (or the attention), so I enjoyed clicking, and I hope she enjoyed posing. For all they say about babies being self-centered, they aren't self-conscious in the way we adults are, so they don't really 'pose' at all, so Molly's expressions are refreshingly candid. Although Liz and Ian certainly weren't the center of attention this Christmas, we had a great time visiting with them, too!
Here's the link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/matthuffster/ChristmasInSeattle2007?authkey=ZfyPkp-2sUI
Here's the link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/matthuffster/ChristmasInSeattle2007?authkey=ZfyPkp-2sUI
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