Archive for March 21st, 2010

Aaron Asleep at Dinner

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Aaron has been going through some changes. Since we “lost” his pacifiers this week, he has stopped taking an afternoon nap. This means that by dinnertime, he can get a little tired. Throw in some running around outside and he can get real tired. The video is about two minutes long, he wakes up a bit at 50 seconds when I ask if he’s having a dinosaur dream.

On a technical note, this is from the Google Droid phone’s video camera. It’s pretty good on several levels: 1) has about the same image density as our Sony point-and-shoot, 2) actually compresses the video file, so that it is a manageable size (26MB vs. 250MB, big difference), and 3) it’s always with me. Lens, focus and especially colors are not as good, so for any serious photos I’ll use the dedicated camera. But this is way better than the iPhone’s crappy image collector. I used the iPhone in San Francisco to image some business cards I picked up, and could not read the images afterward — it’s that bad.

Health Care Reform

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Looks like it’s done now. Thank God. Stole the photo above from Paul Krugman; it seemed appropriate.