Category Archives: Personal Journal

Friday afternoon, I’m home after a day – nay, a week – of work, Oliver comes in with my shoes, sets them down in front of me and says, “Papai…sapatos…trabalhar” (“Daddy…shoes…to work”)! Smart kid, but a stern taskmaster. He’s also … Continue reading →

Oliver is now starting to realize that there are two different languages in his life, I think. For a while now, he will call things by two names if he knows them both and especially if he really wants something: … Continue reading →

Oh, and I got to go to a baseball game and read the WHOLE newspaper over coffee because wife and son flew to Brazil late Sunday night. I miss ’em. But I don’t lack for activities to distract me! 🙂

Yesterday evening I went to see the local Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (Angels) play down the freeway in San Bernadino against the 66ers (Dodgers). It’s quite a nice stadium, with nice mountain views, plenty of good seats (I don’t know if … Continue reading →

Two earthquakes at nearly 4 magnitude tonight around 11:15. As soon as we felt the jolt, I went to the Internet and found this site, which is dynamically updated and won’t show these quakes after about a week from now. … Continue reading →

Browsing around on MySpace in preparation for a lecture I’m going to give on social networking sites, I made the discovery that Oliver hardy (of Laurel and Hardy fame) was born Norvell Hardy, and later changed his name to Oliver … Continue reading →

I’m not sure if passenger screening at airports really does much of anything to protect us from terrorism, but it sure is good for some laughs, as guards and police swing into action and press conferences are convened to explain … Continue reading →

Oh, and he’s walking! Took off Saturday night, October 7, one day shy of his eleventh month birthday. We were at the Maracá Ecological research station, sitting around the common room, when he started putting more than two or three … Continue reading →

João Oliver debuted three new inventions in the past weeks. One is to bend over and check out the view of world upside down between his legs. He straightens up and laughs like crazy, but I don’t know if it’s … Continue reading →

Did anyone else suspect that Big Love was going to end its season with a bigger bang than the Sopranos? Still: Tony Soprano: “She’s Dominican. Maybe.” Can’t wait for next year with both shows!