February 2010
8 posts
Can Hand-Drawn Matrix Codes Save Lives During A...
Ever since the third DC CrisisCamp a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about the potential role that matrix codes can play in disaster response. A matrix code is kind of like a UPC symbol used when scanning items at a store, except that it’s shaped like a grid and can be used to contain all sorts of information. For example, it’s not unusual to see matrix codes on...
Can Hand-Drawn Matrix Codes Save Lives During A...
Ever since the third DC CrisisCamp a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about the potential role that matrix codes can play in disaster response. A matrix code is kind of like a UPC symbol used when scanning items at a store, except that it’s shaped like a grid and can be used to contain all sorts of information. For example, it’s not unusual to see matrix codes on...
Sean And Dizzy, Finally Becoming Buddies
So Kayleigh and I were watching a video this afternoon. At some point I realized Sean had wandered off into the kitchen and was being surprisingly quiet. I walked in and found him there, gently petting Dizzy - and for the first time ever, Dizzy seemed to be enjoying it: Posted via email from aka @acarvin | Comment »
46th and 8th Ave, Waiting
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Kayleigh composes her first song, Kayleigh & Sean...
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To Brainstorm Further: Matrix Codes for Haiti?
Ever since CrisisCamp this past weekend, I’ve been thinking about experimenting with ways that matrix codes like this one could be used to track important data in Haiti. Download the free ScanLife app for the iPhone and point the iphone at this particular code. It should pull up details from the Sahana database for a hospital in Haiti, including its current capacity and supply levels. So my...
January 2010
4 posts
Kayleigh the Human Bubble Machine
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Wii bowling with an audience of one
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I wonder what he's thinking
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Spot the cartoon characters in the World Fair Use...
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December 2009
22 posts
Back Of The Bus Flashbacks
We got Sean a toy school bus, around 10” long, and when you look into it through the back window it gives you weird flashbacks to middle school. I managed to take this pic with my iPhone pressed against the back. Suddenly I’m feeling braces on my teeth again and the strange feeling I left my Trapper Keeper at home. Posted via email from aka @acarvin | Comment »
Psychedelic Eyes
Kayleigh plays with the spinning LED toy she got for Christmas Posted via email from aka @acarvin | Comment »
Land of snow and fog
Back yard trees enveloped in fog on Christmas afternoon. Posted via email from aka @acarvin | Comment »
Recipe for the perfect frittata
A few days ago I bragged on Twitter that I had made the perfect frittata. Several people asked me for a picture of it, but we were too eager to eat it before we could take a photo. I made the frittata again tonight, and this time took a picture, which I thought would provide me with an excuse to post the recipe as well. So here it goes: The Perfect Frittata 1 16oz container of Egg Beaters...
In which both kids actually make eye contact with...
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I wonder what Kayleigh is thinking....
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My Little Gator Fan
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Free Skate
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Old Timers at Caffe Vittoria, Boston's North End
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Scenes From A Jewish Funeral
We buried Grandma yesterday. It was a brisk, cloudy day, but not cold by Massachusetts-in-December standards. Almost 30 people showed up: our immediate family, a number of my mom’s first cousins, and even two of my cousins from my dad’s side of the family. We we really touched by everyone’s attendence. It was only my third or fourth time to the family plot at Sharon Memorial. I...
