http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Thoughts, ponderings, reflections. by Kevin D. Hendricks en-us kevin@monkeyouttanowhere.com 2008-03-15T17:09:04-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/15_17_09.php My blog has officially moved out. You can keep up with it at KevinDHendricks.com. If you're using my FeedBurner RSS feed you shouldn't have to update anything (I hope). If you're using one of my other RSS feeds, you might... 4560@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Blogging 2008-03-15T17:09:04-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/14_22_09.php Jason Kottke is celebrating 10 years of blogging today. He wasn't the first, but definitely one of the earliest. However you want to divvy up the credit, 2008 is the 10th anniversary of blogging. Amazing how it's all growed up... 4559@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Behold, the Internet 2008-03-14T22:09:24-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/13_13_27.php Lots of folks have been asking how our adoption process is going, and the answer is the same as it was two months ago: We're waiting. We've been approved, we've filled out all the paperwork and we're officially on the... 4557@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Adoption 2008-03-13T13:27:19-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/10_15_32.php Speaking of hair (or the lack thereof), I thought it'd be interesting to compare my current self to my 6 years ago self: Me in 2002: Me in 2008: Why compare the two? Hopefully it's good fun, and not just... 4553@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Personal Pics 2008-03-10T15:32:12-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/10_15_21.php St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven fund raising program where people shave their heads to fight cancer. We're such an image-based culture that I love the idea of putting our image to work for a cause (I was going to... 4552@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Health 2008-03-10T15:21:57-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/08_20_31.php Apparently a number states have balked at the Department of Homeland Security's attempts to require nationwide standards for ID cards, known as the Real ID Act. It sounds like a fairly boring story, though maybe an interesting case of state's... 4549@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Politics 2008-03-08T20:31:31-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/06_10_35.php My house hates me. Since we moved in last April things have been systematically breaking. The guys who installed our washer and dryer hooked them up wrong. Didn't help that I didn't properly install the drain hose on the first... 4546@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Domicile 2008-03-06T10:35:35-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/06_10_20.php My sister-in-law, Limor, has set up shop on Etsy, selling her crafty wares under the name Ninja Eema. She's made some great stuff for Lexi for various presents, and now you can get your own stuff. I'm partial to Dudley... 4545@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Art 2008-03-06T10:20:18-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/05_10_50.php I spent my New Year's in California covering the Foursquare NextGen Summit '07, on assignment writing an article for Advance magazine. The article I wrote, "Generation Change" is now available online.... 4543@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Company News 2008-03-05T10:50:09-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/03_20_13.php It only took four and a half years, but my blog archives are now complete. All 2,370 entries going back to Dec. 5, 1998 are now available right here. No more going back to the hand-coded pages on the utterly... 4540@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Site Updates 2008-03-03T20:13:24-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/02_15_01.php We haven't talked about our adoption much lately. Mainly because we're on the waiting list, and there's not much to do other than wait. Yeah, we try to busy ourselves with things like our rummage sale, but we're really just... 4468@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Adoption 2008-03-02T15:01:37-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/03/02_14_59.php Today is Dr. Seuss' birthday, so don't forget that adults are just obsolete children. I wrote about the good doctor's birthday nine years ago, so can just see what I had to say back then.... 4467@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Reading is Fun 2008-03-02T14:59:00-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/02/29_20_42.php This week Abby showed Lexi some old school Sesame Street clips on YouTube. Lexi loved them--especially the YipYipYipYipYip monsters. So I decided we'd try watching some Sesame Street when it was on PBS. I'm usually not big on watching TV... 4422@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Stupid TV, Be More Funny 2008-02-29T20:42:26-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/02/28_10_34.php Last week at church we sat around with some other parents and talked about spiritual formation in our children. Basically how we're teaching them about God. I felt kind of dumb because I didn't think we were doing much. But... 4331@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Children 2008-02-28T10:34:49-06:00 http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/archives/2008/02/27_10_18.php I'm a longtime fan of quasi-indie artist Justin McRoberts and I heard last week that he has a new album coming out, Deconstruction. As part of the album releasing festivities, Justin made videos of the entire album and released them... 4284@http://www.monkeyouttanowhere.com/thoughts/ Music 2008-02-27T10:18:35-06:00