August 2005

Dr.Seuss

Jonathan has fallen in love with Dr.Seuss. He will quote from the books while we are doing other things, and laugh - "Pat, cat, No, that!"

posted by Heather Daley on August 31, 2005, 11:47 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan Reviews

Mine and Share

Although he still says "hold you" when he means "hold me," Jonathan is starting to figure out the me-you-mine-yours thing. He will now say "mine socks" or "mine shoes."

posted by Heather Daley on August 31, 2005, 11:38 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Jonathan is great at couplets now, for example, "yellow button" "dry diaper" "one hand." He is also increasing his use of complete sentences. One thing he said yesterday was "Yes please, Daddy" which is the first time ever that he has said all three in a row like that for a request.

posted by Heather Daley on August 29, 2005, 5:31 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Funny

In a sales flyer I got recently, there was a line at the bottom that said, "Not responsible fro typos."

posted by Heather Daley on August 29, 2005, 5:29 PM | Comments
Category General

New Spammer Record

I happened to check my logs this evening and discovered that a spammer had tried to send one of my clients a few emails over the weekend. Only 100,000 or so. He was being blocked via an RBL, but that still takes up resources, so I manually blocked his IP address, as well as ran a ping -f -s 65507 on him for a while, and reported him to his ISP. The mail stopped about 5 minutes later, so I don't know what made the difference, it doesn't seem like his ISP could have reacted that fast, particularly on a Saturday evening.

posted by Jon Daley on August 27, 2005, 6:34 PM | Comments
Category Internet

Word Association

Jonathan was playing with Heather's hair band, and was calling it a bandand, his word for rubber band, (close to his word for baid-aid: bandane)

posted by Jon Daley on August 27, 2005, 5:00 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Weekend Sailing Adventures, Part II (aka Capsized!)

Sunday after church Jon suggested we go sailing again since we did not make it the day before.

posted by Heather Daley on August 25, 2005, 1:25 PM | Comments
Category General

Weekend Sailing Adventures, Part I (aka No Sailing)

This was quite the weekend of the sailboat. Saturday's adventures pale in comparison to Sunday's, but I want to write them down anyway.

posted by Heather Daley on August 25, 2005, 1:20 PM | Comments
Category General

Butterflies, Japan

Jonathan now identifies two of his butterfly bits by name: "morpho" for brown morpho and "lady" for painted lady. By the way, I always type his words the way he means them, but often they are not exactly like that. For example, these two words actually sound like "my-foh" and "yay-dee." He has been working on his l's though, because sometimes he says a very good "lap."

posted by Heather Daley on August 18, 2005, 4:52 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Good Sailing on the River

On Monday after dinner, Jon said, "How about if we go sailing?" So we packed up and headed down to the boat ramp near his work - on the Monongehela almost under the Birmingham bridge.

posted by Heather Daley on August 18, 2005, 4:51 PM | Comments
Category General

Tiptoes, Gate, Zero

On Tuesday, Jonathan discovered how to stand on tiptoes, and he thought it was great fun and asked me to "Watch!" him and share in his joy.

posted by Heather Daley on August 18, 2005, 8:19 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

I Can Do It Myself (Mostly)

Today at lunch, Jonathan opened the refrigerator door, took out the pitcher of iced tea (about 2-3 cups left), brought it to the table, climbed up on his chair, and began pouring the tea into his cup.

posted by Heather Daley on August 10, 2005, 8:52 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Pancakes, LEDs, Colors

On weekends, Jonathan often helps Daddy make breakfast while Mommy gets a little bit of nice time to herself with God. This Sunday morning, Jonathan successfully used the spatula to lift the pancakes off the griddle and onto the plate!

posted by Heather Daley on August 9, 2005, 3:33 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Routine Ultrasounds Are Harmful

My friend gave me an update on our mutual friend whose baby is due next week. The doctors want to induce now, a week early, "because the baby has lost weight." How do they know this? By ultrasound. Which can be wrong by a pound or more in either direction.

posted by Heather Daley on August 6, 2005, 12:16 PM | Comments
Category General

More Amazing

On Monday, Jonathan said what sounded like "van-fan" so I tried to figure out what he meant. He pointed to the shelf and said it again, maybe differently. I looked up, and there were the bits - works of Rembrandt! I said, "Rembrandt?" And he said, "yes, Rembrandt!" (or a close approximation.) It had been a while since he saw them so I was quite impressed that he remembered. After we saw the bits, he asked for the word cards behind them by saying, very clearly, "words."

posted by Heather Daley on August 5, 2005, 9:48 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Mail Statistics

It is a new month, and therefore, a new point on my email graph. A couple interesting things this month: one, you can tell I went on vacation, and probably also that I knew Heather was gone the week before, so I wasn't emailing her as much either. Two, spam has now hit the 30% mark (note: the "received mail" does not include spam). Three, the size of email is getting bigger. Even though I received less email this month than the last couple months, the mailbox hit 100 megs for the month.

posted by Jon Daley on August 3, 2005, 10:24 AM | Comments
Category Internet Reviews

Readable Code

I think this is the worst code I have ever seen, except where people were trying to make code hard to read. This code is in a video driver, written by Silicon Motion.

posted by Jon Daley on August 3, 2005, 9:37 AM | Comments
Category Programming Reviews

PVCS Tracker 7.52 Setup

Since I always need to go back to my email to find out the instructions of how to set up the server, here are the settings we need at DynaVox to make Tracker work properly.

posted by Jon Daley on August 1, 2005, 4:01 PM | Comments
Category Reviews

Daley Ponderings