My New Favorite Soup

Super V

The original, and enhanced by NDJ...

Sugar Dew

While we were at Sam's Club today on a critical Simulac run NDM pointed this baby out to me. I admit, I was pretty excited. Coke is much better made with cane sugar -- i.e. Mexican Coke -- so how could sugar Mountain Dew fail to be excellent?

Well. There is a way.

Compared to HFCS Dew, sugar Dew is a little flatter, a noticeable step down in sweetness, with a much more pronounced medicinal aftertaste.

It is hard to believe that the difference is solely due to the difference in sweetness between sucrose and HFCS's cocktail of fructose and glucose. Under the fuzzy lens of can ingredients labeling the products are otherwise identical. Yet, there it is.

V's Quilt

GCE's mother made this utterly fabulous quilt for V. It has intricate, hand-crafted zoo animals on the front and a frog pattern in honor of my mother on my the back. My cell phone snaps don't do it justice. Thanks so much!

Welcome Home V

We brought V home early this afternoon. She was a champ and decided to sleep peacefully the whole way home despite being overdue for both feeding and changing. Dog introductions went fine; Líle was a little intimidated at first bust warmed up quickly. V even grabbed her a little.

Family Resemblance?

Can you tell we're related?

Happy Birthday to V!

This afternoon, after what must be the shortest and most anti-climactic labor ever -- I swear, it was TV birth short -- we welcomed VRM into the world. Mother and baby are both doing fine.

V was of course immediately transferred into a frog blanket.

Full Term Ultrasounds

Here is a sneak peak at VRM thanks to 4D real-time ultrasound.

We got quite a good look at her lips from several angles.

Apparently she is a finger-sucker, just like her father.

Pond Visitor

Caught an evening diner at our All-you-can-eat fish buffet tonight!

International Bavarian Of Mystery

The Time: The last, desperate throes of the Cold War.
The Place: An untapped trove of biodiversity.
The Hat: What can I say?

Farewell S2

My lovely original Tivo, after over 8 years of faithful service and 2 additional hard drives, is finally dead and gone. Its transferred lifetime service will live on in my HD. For one final time I would like to thank all my wonderful ex-staff for the gift that made sure I've seen all 7,418 episodes of Law & Order.

Rationalist Rap

RDM turned me on to the rapper Baba Brinkman through The Rap Guide to Evolution. Nice animation!

Wall-E Cake

Here is the result of our visit to the cake shop. NDM produced this for a coworker's son's fourth birthday.
Everything was edible except for the wire holding up the stars.
My favorite parts were the roaches, which the children misidentified as crickets. I was not permitted to correct their identification.

Cake Crazy

NDM has drawn me off to downtown Orlando to wallow in cake supplies. While she runs down the aisles oohing and aahing, I thought I would see if I could blog from my new phone. What do you know?

Ultrasound #2

We had our second ultrasound today. Now the arguments about naming can finally begin in earnest. (I already have a Gmail address reserved in case my nominee wins out.)
Everything looked acceptable, from size...
...to the number of critical digits.