Family Affair YouTube Example

Here's the link you posted embeded into your blog

First Grade 2007

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

Finally got around to scanning this. Warning, you may see this picture later this Christmas.

Notice the missing teeth on the bottom row.

Merry Star Wars Christmas

How cool would this be? Even more fun than skateboarding downhill. We have to show you this Christian.

Happy Birthday Christian

Sorry we could make your party yesterday, but Happy Birthday Christian. We hope you had a spectacular time.

We all love you, and I have a love quote for you this morning.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides
David Viscott

A Song For My Love

Check out this website. All unsigned artists. I love this song when the Beach Boys sing it, reminds me of my love.

http://www.thesixtyone.com/PetraHaden/collection/collection_item/736/

Here's the video of the Beach Boys singing it.

The Moment of Victory

I have experienced this myself in rugby, and other things. As we've heard, it is the journey, not the destination where all the fun is.

Speaking of journeys, we visited Brazos Bend State Park this weekend. Isaac pet snakes (Gammy loved hearing of that, especially the Mexican Milk snake who looked remarkably similar to a Coral snake), spiders, and even baby alligators. In fact we saw about 5 adult alligators running around (well actually sleeping) in the park. We can't wait to take you there.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing
else. Martina Navratilova

Quote of the Day

Thank you Martin Luther King Jr., somedays I really need this one. Hate is a very strong word isn't it?

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

RE < C Computer Energy Consumption

Have you seen this expression, REnew energy initiative from Google, to use renewable resources to power their applications.

I've preached this to my group frequently, a processor costs more in energy costs than initial purchase costs. However, I had not considered the long term effect of large applications like Second Life. According to this article, a Second Life avatar consumes more energy than an average real Brazilian person.

While I've heard you can do a job interview over Second Life, I doubt they have virtual wind farms, like we have here in Texas.

Thanksgiving Communism and China

Getting the family together always seems to have a great affect of stirring the intellectual pot. I love it.

My question, in after dinner discussions, was "how strained is the adoption relationship between the U.S. a democracy and China a communist state." One of our dinner guests suggested that China is, in fact, a republic; suggesting it's name The People's Republic of China. Unfortunately, due to my own lack of research on the subject, I could not argue this suggestion.

While looking for this on the web it seems, despite its name, The People's Republic of China, is in fact a communist state. Thier leader, Hu Jintao while holding one democratic title of President of the People's Republic of China, is also the General Secratary of the Communist Party of China. In fact, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has been the constitutionally gauranteed rulers of China since Mao Zedong.

It seems, while Mao initially baised the CPC on Marxism-Leninism principals, currently, the Chinese economic practice is described as a socialist market economy. This economic principal, while socialist, the "state retained ownership of large enterprises, it does not use this ownership to intervene to change prices which are set by the market."

Of course this just scratches the surface on an interesting after dinner conversation. Love to hear any feedback. Thanks again family for the always stimulating time.

Happy Thanksgiving Family

We are so thankful for our family. I found this quote today

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Shine on Family, we love you

Baby You Save Me

You have to check this site out .

Here's the song that Denise and I danced to in our wedding.


I can't listen to this song without cracking up, I'm so lucky. Better head home and see my lover. Manana

Further With the Beautiful Boy Song

Found this new web site that let's you play songs in your web site.

Here's Celine's version


And John Lenon


And Something a little different

Life Without TV

I must admit, we definately watch TV, but this list is awesome. Another entry from Michael's No Impact Man suggestion. My favorite is,

We ride aimlessly around on the No Impact Mobile (our tricycle with a back seat
for Isabella), seeing what we can see ...

Star Wars, Star Trek, Robots, and Ninjas

I love these cool YouTube viewers. Isaac and Christian will love this one.

Beautiful Boy

Mom called and told me about this song. Here's a video from YouTube. I played the original John Lennon version for Isaac as well.

2007Halloween

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

Pictures of Isaac's Halloween costume. "Come to the dark side Luke, it is your destiny." Did he say 'destiny'

Flying Robots

How easy (or difficult) can it be to build a flying robot. Sounds quite difficult.

MakerFair Austin

Just found out that the MakerFair will be in Austin this weekend. We're trying desprately to miss a game of baseball so we can attend. Looks like a giant do-it-yourself science fair.

How about a catapult competition.

Quick Quote of the Day

"There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people."
H. R. Schafferfrom

Isaac Heart

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

We're testing a new scanner. Isaac created this piece of art, he calls it, "The Heart Master"
Happy Thursday

Pearland Pictures

Mom and Grandma are helping post this one in the living room. Happy Friday!
Check out the house we are looking at, here's a map.

Green M&M Quote of the Day

Happy Tuesday. I never thought of sharing being vulnerable, but it makes sense.

Sort of like this concept that Denise and I learned about the power of admiting fault in a customer service transaction. Even if it's not necessarily your company's fault, saying I'm sorry can completely disarm an otherwise volitle situation.

Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If
you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking.
Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being
Vulnerable. Hugh Elliott

Disk Golf Adventure

Who knew there where so many cool things on the disk golf course. Well we knew, but these are the first pictures. Sorry no snakes this time, but we'll try to keep the camera with us more often.

Isaac's First Lost Tooth

Isaac's first tooth out. It reportedly happened on June 13, 2007. YEAH!

Christian's Math (Data) Project

I received a call from Christian this afternoon with a survey regarding my favorite color. Analysing data, and building web applications to contain data is a significant part of my work day. In fact, I just recently architected a survey application for Denise's old team at work.

Good work Christian, take a look at your charts. I have suggestions for even better data (break down your data even further and guess the age and sex of each person that you surveyed, that way we can see if a person's age or sex has an affect on their color preference).

Snake Oil Salesman

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

This man could truly sell anything. If he is able to get Gammy and Denise to the property after sending this picture, he should give classes.

Sweet snake though, Isaac and I are definately in.

Acapella Amazing

Wow, check this out, totally incredible.

Wiki Conversation

Ever notice how cyclical things are if you take the time to notice? We found this quote from the founder of Wikipedia on our Starbucks cup this morning.

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis gives us a place where everyone
who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come join us in building a better
and more rational world." - Jimmy Wales -Founder of Wikipedia and
Wikia.com

First Pics: Isaac's Kindergarten Graduation

Just to demonstrate the speed of technology, here are some pics of Isaac before his graduation ceremony. We're headed out the door for the festivities. Happy Friday!

The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul

I just leafed through the last chapter in Rudy Rucker's book. While each chapter has a dizzying array of advanced mathematics (which I promptly skipped over for the most part) to argue his "the universe is a gnarly computation" theory (universal automatism), the author comes to a very real and understandable conclusion.

Rudy attempts to answer, "the meaning of life" question using this same theory. He suggests that even human emotions can be described in a computationally rich scale.

• Rage - simple class 1 computation which predictably and simply terminates
• Hatred - class 2 computation looping endlessly and again predictably
• Needy desire to please another -class 3 (random, messy, with no obvious order) computation
• Compassion - a gnarly ever evolving class 4 process

This leads Rudy to explain that the meaning of life is beauty and love.

It seems to me, no matter how complex or simple our explanation is, the ultimate results is always very similar. Compassion, Beauty, Love

Peace!

Interesting Interview with General Dan Mcneil

General McNeil is the current NATO commander in Afghanistan. Although his opinions apparently differ significantly from the outgoing commander British General David Richards, he refuses to give commentary to the interviewer which might be construed as negative toward his ally. Even when pressed by the reporter.

The General also displayed an incredible knowledge of when his expertise stopped, and the policy maker's began. This seems an admiral trait with a man put into such a powerful position.

Birthday Thanks and a Little Surprise

We finally got time to load up the new MP3 player this weekend. What a great player, it even plugs into our car. With such a big drive, we fit the Beattles plus 83 other songs, and only filled it half way.

Oh yes, this and one other surprise. I understand it happened last weekend. Apparently, the tree looked closer to the monkey bars than it appeared in the window.

Birthday Pictures

I've been under a new project, but here is a set of birthday party pictures. Some very good ones of all the kids and adults. I had to show this one of the princess.

Isaac Singing - Each of Us Is a Flower

We were playing with an MP3 player Denise won at the gym, and found it also does recording. After a little research on how to host wav files, I think some of you will certainly appreciate the results.

Austin Trip Spring 2007

Our fun trip to Austin and pictures with the Bluebonnets. The Bluebonnets made us remember how lucky we feel to be Texans.

Isaac's Blue Belt Test

Exciting blue belt test for Isaac's Taekwondo classes. At this rate, he'll be a black belt by 7.

Google Video Element

Another new element. Press a video in the navigation and it will play on the page. Cool!! These are currently Rugby Haka's

New Page Element

Testing a new page element on the left navigation bar. This is a feed to my photo hosting service. Whenever I load new photos, they should appear in this feed bar.

English Professor

I was reading the quote blog, and this one reminded me of an English professor I heard of at West Point.

An English Professor
"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."

Coding Philosophy

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

I found this cartoon blog which covers software development. This one may even be applicable to some who read my blog.

Sunday Mashup Music

I've found many cool toons on the MashupTown.com site, however, some are not very work or child safe. This one is very safe, and even inspirational. You can turn it up with the family huddled around the computer. Isn't this how you guys listen to music these days?

And You Can be My Cowgirl

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

I Want to be a Cowboy

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Originally uploaded by mhughen.

Its rodeo time in Houston

Quiet Day is Better for Reflection

We finally rolled out our new web application, and I can make time for a post.

I was looking at Rudy's latest post, and he brought up the interesting concept of holyzoism (fascinating how his site outlines his novel writing experience. He asks for user input, and discusses various theories for the novel).

Holyzoism is an ancient philosophy that all or some things posses life. This seems to include plants and animals. However, there seems to be a slight difference with the similar philosophy of panpsychism, the concept that all things have a soul(Maybe Michael can discuss the difference on his site).

After watching Al Gore win an Academy Award for his documentary about global warming, it seems if the world could collectively conceive of holyzoism and panpsychism, they might have an easier time fixing global warming.

"This I believe" NPR essays Creating Our Own Happiness

Sent this to my team this morning, good words to remember.

I heard this essay coming in to work this morning, after dropping my son off at school. The essential theme of the essay is covered in the quote, “Try to be happy in the context of the life you are currently living.”

Have a good week.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7572601

Old Pictures But Good Ones

Wedding Pics
Valentines
Christmas
Thanksgiving
Green Belt Test

Sorry I've been buried under a project the last several months. Here is several groups of pictures including some from this evening. Thanks Gammy for the Valentine's day treats.