Anjulie – “Boom”

This makes me think of an old-school James Bond soundtrack.

Baby fever

After James was born, people told me “well, now you’re going to get sick a lot more.” I thought I knew what they meant.

Sure, he was going to be exposed to sniffly kids, none of whom had a tested immune system, and so would be passing along every cold bug. But that was no big deal: A few extra colds I could handle, those that I actually caught, anyway.

But there was something I’d forgotten: That’s not the only source of germs kids bring home.

James has now entered a licking phase — I’m sure the baby books will call it an “oral something something something period” — but really, it’s a licking phase. And you can never catch him pre-lick, only post-lick, once he’s gotten a good swath of the Hesperia Star’s glass front door covered or the handle of the grocery store shopping cart spit-shined.

And here’s the thing: Jenn and I have not been licking windows and shopping cart handles for several decades now. That’s thousands of generations of evolution for window and shopping cart germs to come up with new ways to circumvent the human immune system.

Anyway, that’s the story of my weekend. How was yours?

Zork returns … soon

Zork will soon be returning as a browser-based game, put up by the company that owns the ruins of the glory that was Infocom.

That’s pretty cool — I’d especially like it if there were a non-cumbersome iPhone app to play Infocom games — but the best Infocom game is already online in several incarnations, including two illustrated versions from the BBC of, of course, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

I haven’t mentioned it previously here, but the two original Hitchhiker’s radio series are finally available via iTunes, and I’ve been enjoying them way too much. (I even slapped the Hitchhiker’s movie thumb logo onto my iPhone as its wallpaper.)

And I somehow missed this big write-up about the never-released Infocom Hitchhiker’s sequel, Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Eighteen months

Important wireless computing tip

Find out the laptop’s password before the school board meeting you plan to cover using it.