Family of Six

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.

TED talks–amazing stuff

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.