In the spring of 2008, I changed my life. I was 34 years old, and for the previous 13 years–starting when I graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree in computer science–I had been working in Silicon Valley as a…
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Christmas Greetings
Below please find our traditional year-end family newsletter, which hopefully does not inspire in you the depths of revulsion described by Garfunkel and Oates: http://vimeo.com/8192170 You are, of course, free to not read it. We’ll never know! But seriously, somebody…
Xmas Tree Update
We’ve procured and personalized our final 2010 ornament: I was surprised to find that we don’t actually have that many photos of both cats sitting close together and looking at the camera. The following picture was my second choice, but…
Our Geeky Xmas Tree
Our old digital still camera has been slowly dying for several months, but our friends Kathy and Brian were kind enough to send us a newer camera they found in a box of spare electronics. Thanks, guys! To try it…
Postcard #51
Another electronic greeting–this one from my Uncle Tau, who lives near Boston, Massachusetts. There was a reason I wanted actual, physical postcards–because I liked the idea of having real objects I could touch, and I wanted to see what kinds…
Postcard #44
After my sister and I both graduated college and moved away for good, my parents sold the house we’d grown up in and bought a smaller house on a hill in RPV. Then they moved into an apartment, temporarily, while…
Postcard #36
From my father’s brother, who apparently delegated the inscription task to my cousin Julianna. Because no adult has handwriting that neat.