Here's a random assortment of pictures from the past few weeks. T-ball is over, and ended with the last few games of the kids hitting over-hand pitching, so that was pretty neat, and then last Sunday, Katie's sister got married! The wedding was perfect, and the rain held off...There's a lot of pictures from that (sorry to those of you who don't even know Beth and Jacob, but some of their family couldn't make it up (the wedding was at Gail and Paul's house in Peacham, VT) so I wanted to share a few more than just the kids :-)

2011_06_29

The kids at the driving range:


Tyler getting a hit:

2011_06_01

Anna had a little dance recital today at Essex High School up on the stage (I say little because the full shin-dig was all ages/levels, and lasted three hours...Anna's class was second, and lasted about 4 minutes :-) She did great!!... I don't think I could go out on a stage in front of a full house...it was totally packed! People were turned away at the door by the fire marshal it got so crowded... Fortunately, we were there early and got seats in the front row. We had our doubts that she would go through with it when she realized how many people were there, but she proved us wrong, and we are SO proud of her.

Here's a couple of clips... I grabbed with the camera. If you don't know the song (I'd be shocked if if you did), it's from Pinnochio and it's called "I've Got No Strings"... hence the suspenders with the tutu.

I've got a ton of pictures to go through from the past few weeks and a trip to Story Land, but wanted to share Anna's dance tonight.

2011_06_12

2011_05_30

Recognize anyone on this page?

http://shelburnemuseum.org/learn/families-and-kids/

2011_05_07

2011_05_10

Happy Easter!

So it's been a long time since the last update, I know. I've been busy working on finishing the basement almost every night after the kids go to bed and just haven't taken the time otherwise to download the pictures from the camera and put some up. I don't have many pictures to prove it, but it's coming along well. Framing, electric, lighting, and half the sheetrock is done.
The pictures go from most recent to oldest... you could probably figure that out by the snow in the last few pictures and the Easter eggs in the first few :-)

2011_04_24

2011_03_26

2011_03_21

Just a few more pictures and videos from Katie's camera now that she's home:

2011_02_25

Katie and the kids are in Pennsylvania visiting Beth and Jacob. They work at Whitetail resort, and are teaching the kids to ski!

Skiing at Whitetail, PA

Skiing Day 2

2011_02_20

A lot of people have asked me if I am "working on" the IBM 'Watson' super-computer which is going to be competing in Jeopardy on Feb 14-16. The short answer is "kind of". To build 'Watson', they connected 360 IBM Power7 microprocessors (2,880 total cores), along with 15 terabytes of RAM, and some incredibly smart software. The processor itself is what I work on, and it's primary application is in an IBM server, not to play Jeopardy!(in case you were thinking it was a waste of money). But that is one of the chips that I have been involved in developing, so I do have a little skin in it I suppose. Hopefully it doesn't crash. If it does, I take it back... I had nothing to do with it.

If you're interested, or have no idea what I'm talking about, check out this video:

 

 

enough snow already!!!

2011_01_31

2011_01_20

Happy New Year!

We had a great Christmas! I hope you all did too!

2011_01_04

2010_12_22

2010_12_08

Random question...

Something came up at lunch today and I wanted to ask around before I forget... did we lend any of you the DVD "Alone in the Wilderness"? It's the self-made documentary made by the guy who moved to Alaska in the 60's and filmed himself setting up shop and living off the land. It's been missing from our collection for a while, but I know we lent it around to a bunch of you. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't laugh, it's really interesting).

If you have it, please let me know. The guys at lunch were talking about it and it made me want to watch it again :-)

Thanks.... I'll post some more pictures of the kids after it's returned! hahaha...just kidding... I'll put some more up soon. We've been busy in the snow!

-Chris