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Ruuben Levi Eelis
Jun 29th
Was born on Monday! What an awesome little dude he is. Maija has written a story about it already, though she’s still in the hospital.
A hunger to write
Jun 23rd
Over the last few months I’ve been developing a hunger to write again. Having a young family hugely impacts the time you have available for hobbies and personal fulfillment, so I’ve been trying (and generally failing) to make wise choices with the time I do have. God has provided for us in 3 awesome ways with a specific project that is consuming almost all of our evenings, at present.
The back story, is that our good friend Dave was approached to have his master’s thesis published as a book. A thesis and a book are two different things, and significant editing More >
Settling into 2010
Mar 22nd
We’ve just got back from a 2 month trip to Toronto, where we had a lovely time with family and friends. But we are glad to be home, 2 months is a long time to be away… staying in other people’s homes, etc. Now we’re starting to feel like we can actually begin this year, which is a good feeling. We’ve got a few plans and goals for the year, which are exciting us now.
Such as:
- buying a car (looking for something used and cheap) - saving for a trip to NZ for Christmas - Maija finishing her thesis before More >
Perspective and Priorities
Jan 12th
Andrew Gazaneo quoted a comment from Marc Driscoll, about perspective, which I liked:
“You can pray for a woman I just met. Got off alcohol only to get on prescription drugs, just lost her 2 little kids to the state, & her husband got arrested for beating her. Meanwhile, some people are really frustrated that their 3G connection is slow. Perspective is a great gift.”
I just finished a poll for Avaaz, a worldwide human action network. And the results from 40,000+ members trouble me slightly:
I don’t care about the specifics of global warming (or cooling), or climate change perse… but I More >
The right netbook
Oct 31st
I’m trying to convince Maija to ditch her 2 year old white Macbook and get a netbook. She’s almost sold on the idea… and once I find the perfect model, I know she’ll go for it. Why ditch the Macbook? Because she was looking for a small machine… and it’s 13.3 inches is really not that small anymore… and it’s quite heavy for it’s size. It’s dog slow… ever since she bought it, and it’s falling apart (casing cracks in multiple places, stopped charging the battery this week).
So… I’m hunting for the perfect model. It needs: - an 8-10 inch More >
Picasa 3.5 photo tagging = voodoo magic
Oct 23rd
Picasa 3.5 just came out… Picasa being the fantastic photo management software from Google. 3.5 features, among other things, photo tagging. Which is all fine and dandy… except that once you’ve started tagging people, it figures out what their face looks like and tags the rest of your photos automatically. It’s insane. I mean… I tagged 1 photo of a friend of mine, and within a couple of minutes (I have many thousands of photos) it pulled up another 15 photos of the same person… perfectly matched. It’s not foolproof, and you’ve got to keep tagging and fixing incorrect tags, More >
Highs and lows
Jun 13th
I’m in Toronto for 2 weeks (half-way through now), for the occasion of Mike Livingston and Brieanna Enwiechter’s wedding… and also to launch some new websites for work. I’m having a serious case of highs and lows… some evenings are spent with friends having a great time, other evenings spent late in the office trying to get this project completed. I’m missing home, missing the family… and am feeling a bit distant from God at present.
It’s interesting to me… I find my experience of Christ changes over time. At present it seems intricately linked to my family, to my home. More >
In 2056 I’ll be 70
Feb 21st
I’ve never had cause to contemplate the year 2056… but in that year I will be 70 years old. That seems an unfathomable amount of time away from now. I find it fascinating really.
My (new) Finnish drivers license expires in 2056.
And here’s more pictures of our boy!
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Damn it feels good to be a father
Jan 24th
Maija’s contractions started in earnest this morning, and within 45 minutes we were on our way to the hospital (leaving uncooked cookie dough on the kitchen counter… shock!)
Upon arrival, the midwives seemed to relax just a little when they found out it was our first child. “This’ll take some time” I’m sure they were thinking. Until they checked Maija out, and found she was already 8cm dilated. This baby’s coming out!
2 hours later… for a total of 4 hours labour… James Eden Puddle!
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Jan 10th
I don’t remember when I first started using the phrase “Johnny on the spot”, but it’s one of my favourite sayings. I use it sparingly, and try to use it appropriately.
The grammatical genesis of ‘Johnny on the spot’ cannot be traced very clearly, but the phrase certainly originated from the longer and less expressive one, ‘Johnny is always on the spot when wanted.’ … The expression is to some extent a variation or rather a continuation of that other phrase, ‘He gets there.’” Johnny here must be a general name for any young male and doesn’t refer to a real More >