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Geek Alert

I used to be a huge font geek. I would amass great quantities of fonts only to use my favorite dozen on every project… Anyway, over the years I’ve drifted away from caring about fonts—probably because I don’t do much design/publishing work anymore—until I came across YourFonts.com. The font below? Yeah: my handwriting.

It’s funny: why does what seem to pass for the height of digital cool mean taking an analog “thing” and making it usable on my computer? What’s wrong with me? (Note how I ask this on the blog so Deb has a maximum of a thousand characters to answer that question.)

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Ladies & Gentlemen…

He really did do this spontaneously. It all started with him climbing up on the stepping stool and “giving a speech” to mommy & daddy and then we turned the lights off to oogle our newly decorated Christmas Tree when he “introduced it” to us… I’ll admit we had him do it again after we grabbed the camera, but it was substantively the same as when he just randomly did it the first time. Silly kid.

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We also had a company holiday party at Tavern on the Green [left pic] this weekend which was fun… But not as much fun as Colin had that morning riding the New Jersey Transit train (a.k.a. the “daddy train”) into the city to watch a screening of The Tale of Despereaux. First big-train train ride and first in-theatre movie for Colin. Plus the holiday party. Plus buying and decorating the Christmas Tree [right pic] after watching Watoto at church. He was exhausted and went to sleep so easily tonight. We loved it!

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Colin’s a Rockstar

Colin is a rockstar all because his buddy Ceci and her parents Sandra and Charles got Colin a drum (please note additional noisemakers features of the drum the cymbal and cow bell). Admittedly Colin loves the drum and has a lot of fun deafening his parents singing and drumming, but we will have to make sure and find a nice retaliatory present holiday gift for Ceci.

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Not Even Three Years Old

Well, it had to happen…

The scene: mom and dad sitting on the sofa tapping away on our laptops while Colin plays with his trains in the train room. Colin comes over and sits down between us.

“Mommy, can I play alphabet on your computer?”

“No, honey.”

“Daddy, can I play alphabet on your computer?”

“Sorry Colin, I’m trying to find a sofa for the basement.”

…Pause…

“Oh. Where’s MY computer?”

He busily told us for a couple of minutes about how he needs a computer and wants one when he gets older. He wants a Colin Computer.

He’s not even three years old. And he has a iPod Touch. C’mon Colin, that has more computing power than the first 10 computers your dad every had…

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Uh oh! Off’n the Track!

Post title is a quote from my son. Remembering the quote inspired by this post on Streetsblog.org…

[Thanks, Joe, for shooting it over to me!]

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Looks Like John was Right…

Eating veggies CAN be bad for your brain.

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Of Eco-Crimes and Modest Clothing

A couple of articles worth reading, methinks. One makes me laugh and one makes me happy.

Laugh: Large Families… (I’m all for being green, but c’mon!)

Happy: Mom “Shocked”… (And dad of baby girl relieved.)

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Au Revoir iTheme

Goodbye iTheme, hello WooTheme! What you’re looking at now is a brand new theme for ellsworthlink.net!

I’m sunsetting the long-time template of ellsworthlink.net—shown here, to the right—for a newer, slightly-more-fun(-for-me) theme called FreshNews. In that process I’m making a number of changes to the back end that will make it either easier for us to maintain, better for users, or just “different” because I wanted it to be different.

One of the big changes is subscriptions. The quick story is that I removed all the subscriptions so we could try a new subscription service. This new service is much (!) more reliable and I think we’ll see folks who stopped getting emails a long time ago start to reliably receive the emails if you recreate your subscription by following the link at the tippy-top of the page on the right-hand side. [Hmm, it is a link, Ellsworth, just give it to them: Subscribe to Alert Emails.] The biggest difference you’ll see here (well, aside from them working) is that you’ll only receive one email per day at the most, even if we post multiple times—they’ll all be included in the every-morning-at-5am email.

Lots of cosmetic changes, and lots of stuff will continue to change, but Deb keeps making fun of me that this isn’t up yet, so here it goes…

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