Jason Packham

I guess I’m having a hard time grasping the idea, the concrete reality, that I’m the head of a family of six.

Conversation on the phone earlier today:

Amanda: “I’m going to go to target today.”

Me: “Are you going to take all three of them.”

Amanda: “No, I’m taking all four of them.”

Me: “That’s what I meant, all four of you are going.”

Amanda: “No five of us are going.”

Me: (stumped silence, adding in my head)

Amanda: “Jason, we have four kids, there’s five of us.”

Maybe it’s just because I’m working on four hours of sleep.

Thomas graduated from Kindergarten on June 6. He was very excited. We were very proud of him. He’s excited for first grade…but right now he’s just happy to be on summer break.

See pictures here.

Have you heard of TED? Technology, Entertainment & Design. It’s an annual conference…kind of an exclusive event, hard to get a ticket. Anyway, leaders or innovators in those fields are invited to come and present. Here are a few of my favorites:

Jennifer Lin an amazing 14-year old pianist. Her improvisation at about 20 minutes in is incredible. Proof, in my mind, that Richard Dawkins is wrong.

A demo from a Microsoft guy of future image-handling software (seadragon and photosynth). If you think Picasa is cool…wow.

A really interesting way of presenting data. No powerpoint slides for this guy.
Lots of others.