OT: A simple and beautiful thing

Click here for the movie! (MPEG-4 format) I come from a family of writers, particularly journalists. My uncle, Kent MacDougall, was a newspaper reporter for many years before teaching journalism at the University of California Berkeley. We care deeply about our craft, the words we use, and the many wonderful things we keep in our […]

OT: Science Museums and Press!

Click here for the movie! (MPEG-4 format) We went to the Chabot Space Museum on Saturday and the Exploratorium yesterday (Sunday). Today, I discovered that the San Francisco Chronicle ran an article about videoblogging, and I was mentioned in it! It’s nice when you have an interview with a reporter and it comes out in […]

OT: Visit with my Nephew

Click here for the movie! (MPEG-4 format) For MiMi: (AVI format, 62 MB) We’re off-topic and using a different file format this week as I take my nephew Austin on vacation here in California. Yesterday, we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Today, we’re going Body Boarding! His seventh birthday is on the 23rd, so […]

OT: Space Shuttle to Her Heart

Click here for the movie! (MPEG-4 format, 9.7 MB) A little bit different entry today– it’s not from The Book but is instead a vlog entry about how a couple of my friends met. This entry is important not just because I think it’s a sweet (if geeky) story, but because this was my first […]