I had a great working vacation to New Orleans last week, where along with some UX folks who design websites and mobile apps for Twitter, Google, Obama for America, I spent 5 days in NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana) talking to muscians (from buskers to rising hip hop stars), record producers,…

Miles went to work with John on Thursday and got to live the life of a “madman” ad guy, including writing, performing and shooting an ad for KFC

Installing plumbing at the community garden Garlic, parsley and swiss chard that overwintered in the back yard  

Miles completed his science fair project today. He chose a computer science project this year, and for the project he wrote a program in the Python programming language that will play rock papers scissors against a human opponent. Here are some shots of his board, which he will display at…

The reason myself and Miles were able to get to C2E2 was Liam’s volunteering at the Nerdist booth on Friday.  Here he is with Dru Dence, a woman I work with, who helped organize the whole thing!  

Liam volunteered at a comic and movie convention that earned him a weekend pass that myself and miles were Amee to take advantage off. We saw Dot Com from the sit com 30 Rock, loss of people dressed up as super heroes, a live quiditch game from the Harry potter…

Here’s eleven year old Miles in a really cool monster mask from Australia!

Miles got invited to a paintball party with his friend from school Sanjay.  He along with Sanjay’s family had a great day and all enjoyed avoiding paintball shots in urban, jungle and even armageddon settings

We got John a bike repair stand for his birthday. Now it will be easier than ever for him to repair all our bikes! Happy birthday, john!