On another note I am looking forward to June and the rest of the summer. I am turning 30 along with my best friends Chris and Nate, also Carrie and I have 4 good vacations planned. What more could you ask for? Enjoy the photos.

Love one another, be kind, and if you had to look up to someone, Mister Rodgers is not a bad hero.

Sometimes both heaven and Earth erupt. In Iceland in 1991, the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead. Hekla, one of the most famous volcanoes in the world, has erupted at least 20 times over the past millennium, sometimes causing great destruction. The last eruption occurred only six years ago but caused only minor damage. The green auroral band occurred fortuitously about 100 kilometers above the erupting lava. Is Earth the Solar System’s only planet with both auroras and volcanos?

So I walk up the stairs to my office, turn on pandora where I am greeted with Fabolous. Pop open my email and there is a photojojo newsletter which I proceed to read. There is a google hacking article about images and they are describing how to find images by camera maker, etc. I click on the first link and its just an image search for IMG_001.JPG and its then I realize, this is where our communities have gone. I can see hundreds of first pictures. You went to a party, said hello, took a picture, I just saw it.

Now I am over simplifying it a bit but you get my point. We have lost our sense of community and though people have said it before, I am just getting it (or losing it) and I want them back.

I love the online world however I read an article last month about the weight of the internet, turns out it is far far far less than 1g. Hmm, last time I checked the real world was much more substantial.

See you there then.

If you know me at all you know that I should be taking this advice more than dispensing it (most of the time), but since I love to dish it out, take a look at the article. Personally I don’t know if its possible to implement any of these things, though it would be nice. Life is just too hard sometimes, and just knowing that nothing matters isn’t always enough, I have no idea why but take my advice on this one, its not.

How you feel is how you feel. It’ll pass soon. What you’re thinking is what you’re thinking. It’ll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you feel; whatever you think, you think. Since you can’t stop yourself thinking, or prevent emotions from arising in your mind, it makes no sense to be proud or ashamed of either. You didn’t cause them. Only your actions are directly under your control. They’re the only proper cause of pleasure or shame.

I’d just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven’t heard a new idea in eight years. Let’s get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That’s the philosopher’s job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

Ahh Tim, the quintisential freaker and anti-all. Sure knew what and when to say the right thing though.

I wanted to remind everyone that June 9th is almost here. It’s a very important day for Carrie because she will be walking in the Ashland Relay for Life.

Most of you know that Carrie recently had a battle with cervical cancer. I’m happy to let you know that she just had her 3 month retest and everything was fine. We are lucky that this type of cancer is commonly tested for, and can be easily detected and remedied. Our hope is that all forms of cancer can one day be eradicated; she has decided to take part in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life in Ashland , MA to help raise the funds and awareness necessary to make that happen.

I would love your support for this worthy cause. Contributions are great and we need some crowd members to cheer them on as well. Carrie will be walking with 9 other mom’s who have been affected by cancer and want to make a difference for our children’s futures. She will be walking in two hour shifts for a 24 hour period June 9th and 10th. Please click the link for more details and check out her team members while your there!

Every contribution helps, no matter how big or how small. PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE to donate online (it’s very easy), for information on how to donate via cash or check, or simply for more information about the Relay itself.

Hope to see you there!

On another note I was hacked this month for the first time (at least that I know of). Luckily for me it was just a script kiddie who stopped by and no major damage was done, except the flood of udp packets coming from my house for the last few weeks. Ahh the web. I have patched the stupid vulnerability that I myself created (it was an amateur mistake, I am ashamed) and all is well. Til next time.

RIT Science Summer Camp Flyer

It is my lifelong goal to be the best dad possible, and while there are many ways I can still improve, I think I’m a pretty great dad already, when I sit back and think about it. I know there are some readers who are just starting out in their careers as dads, and this post is for you.

Well and a bit of May. Woot! Another month of pictures! I am on a roll. Anyway hopefully you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them (well Carrie took some too ).