http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/ en-us 2008-06-17T19:48:00-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001670.html Those of you who only subscribe to this poor, sporadically-updated blog and don't read Shelby's blog may have missed the news (and the update) that when our adopted daughter comes home with us from China (in about three years --... Kevin 2008-06-17T19:48:00-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001654.html Another comic from xkcd: Those of you who know Shelby will not be surprised to learn that her favorite present from Christmas 2007 was a year-long subscription to the Bacon of the Month Club. (Accompanied by a copy of the... Kevin 2008-05-04T20:57:32-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001651.html Kevin 2008-04-26T11:34:56-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001649.html I'm a type geek — and not just the kind of guy who has a lot of fonts installed on his computer. I once took a typeface design class from Sumner Stone; one year for an anniversary present, Shelby and... Kevin 2008-04-26T11:24:00-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001624.html ... totally separate from the question of how our man Obama will do tonight (I was hoping for an across-the-board blowout, but I'll settle for stalemate -- for now). I had been scheduled to work as an 'Inspector' for today's... Kevin 2008-02-05T21:41:55-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001597.html Twice in the past few weeks I've been dissed for rudeness by door-to-door salesmen. The first was some middle-aged yutz in a bowling shirt who was selling something about roofing — I was just coming around to tell you that... Kevin 2007-12-06T07:56:13-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001586.html ... we now know where to stay, thanks to a link from my Dad: inside the world's largest Beagle! And when it's time to leave, we can take home a wooden Beagle from their chainsaw art gallery and gift shop.... Kevin 2007-11-21T12:58:18-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001579.html While I sit in the San Jose airport, waiting until I can board a plane and leave the land of recent earthquakes to return to the land of recent fires, it's Cat and Girl. (If I still worked in an... Kevin 2007-11-01T20:20:53-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001577.html I've been working up in San Jose this week. Last night around 8 PM, we had a little drama and excitement, courtesy of a 5.6 earthquake centered in east San Jose. Up on the sixteenth floor of an office building,... Kevin 2007-10-31T21:59:44-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001552.html I am posting this from "my" Boy Scout camp -- Lost Valley, where when I worked here fourteen years ago, we were lucky to have a radiotelephone that worked half the day, and thought ourselves lucky to have that, as... Kevin 2007-09-08T16:39:11-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001543.html Unsurprisingly, it looks a whole lot like our old Prius, before its untimely demise: One of my post-crash sources of peevishness (far out of proportion, given everything else that happened, but nonetheless) was the fact that my Berkeley alumni license... Kevin 2007-08-23T13:28:26-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001530.html Even with all of today's problems, there just seems to be something so right with a world where an eight-foot-tall Lego man can mysteriously wash up on a beach in the Netherlands. [Since his initial appearance, he's become less mysterious:... Kevin 2007-08-09T19:59:20-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001526.html From xkcd, one of the webcomics that I read regularly, it's a comic about the Lisp computer language, which celebrates its fiftieth birthday next year: ... it's funny-yet-true: when I went off to my freshman year at Berkeley, one of... Kevin 2007-08-02T00:28:58-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001518.html I just received an E-mail from Amazon recommending that I purchase a soon-to-be-released book based on my purchase of Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works ... back in April, 1997. Stop Stealing Sheep was the first book... Kevin 2007-07-18T08:25:50-08:00 http://www.happybeagle.com/kevin/blog/archives/001509.html So obviously I've been suffering from a powerful attack of blogging ennui for quite a while now. I'd reflect on a blogworthy topic or event -- adoption news, our recent vacation in France, local Anaheim politics, a return to the... Kevin 2007-07-02T09:16:00-08:00