Wisdom teeth: Not for the faint of heart (or stomach)

Aug 25

Wisdom teeth: Not for the faint of heart (or stomach)

Hey, look what I made! For those few who wanted to see, here are my wisdom teeth — removed on 8/24/11. You can click for a larger version of the pic if you are so inclined. :P As you might be able to see here, two of the teeth came out intact, and the remaining two needed to be cut and chopped and sliced and diced out. I was originally going to be completely...

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D-Day ceremony/veteran video

Jun 07

D-Day ceremony/veteran video

My sister and her kids – and my grandfather – were filmed for a news segment in Normandy, where they were for the 65th anniversary of D-Day! My grandfather was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne and jumped from a plane into France on that historic day. On June 6, 1944, American paratrooper Chet Graham parachuted over the French town of Saint-Mére-Eglise...

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Quinn and the Fibonacci ducks?

Apr 02

Quinn and the Fibonacci ducks?

Someone was kind enough to have sent me a really interesting and kind of amazing theory on this photo of my son Quinn – a pic that showed early on how his mind worked a little differently (eventually diagnosed as autism): Here’s part of her note (actually sent to me as a comment on this site): My primary research interest is autism and so I had of course...

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Stargate Atlantis goes into stasis

Sep 11

Stargate Atlantis goes into stasis

Finally published the first article based on the interviews I did a couple weeks back! This piece is really just about the various reactions to the show being cancelled. (I know… a day late and a buck short. It’s taken a long time to get all the chats transcribed — nearly three hours of audio — and they’re still not all done,...

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Stargated

Sep 09

Stargated

I managed to get the chance to journey up to Vancouver a couple weeks ago to visit the set of Stargate Atlantis. I was there to interview the cast and crew for a series of articles to run on SheKnows.com… but I was really there ’cause SGA is one of my favorite shows. Rather than letting a writer set up some phoners with the troupe, I decided that (a) I...

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