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The Dimple - A Case Study Of Human Mandible...

Trying on roles

Four consecutive hours in crib tonight. You go, girl!

It was a long night one week ago.

Tasty baby! http://is.gd/pHRn

About to meet the mayor and get his signature on a document.

Flower Sock Cupcake Thing From The Littons: Life Imitates...

Card from Great-Grandma: Life Imitates Clipart

Great Aunt Inés

Great Aunt Inés

Father and Daughter

Face-Eating Monster!

Nora Hair and Ear

Life Imitates Clipart

We’ve got so much extra milk we might have to start making some cheese.

At least with repeated sleep deprivation the brain wastes no time getting into REM. The sleep state,...

All day Sunday spend in arms of selfish aunts meant almost no crib time last night. Running...

Goodnight weekend! http://twitpic.com/2l0qm

I enjoyed this rant. http://is.gd/oYrH Anti-Google Street View people should post signs in their...

I always thought it was funny that Taco Bell had a “gordita”, which would translate to...

Spanish Newspapers - March 24, 2009: The morning my daughter...

Baby Burrito: Baby Burrito

Expressions of a Three Day Old

I really really hope she gets to know and remember her great grandfather Ramón....

I wouldn’t mind stopping to care for my infant’s needs six times every day if each stop...

Mother-in-law singing “There’s thunder down under!” (which doesn’t rhyme...

Life experience #8442, Point blank anus-to-nostril fart: Achieved!

One of the clocks in our house survived the entire non-DST period with the DST time. Apathy FTW!

I suppose I should’ve washed my hands between changing diaper and picking fruit at...

Sucking At Sucking

God, it’s so hard waking up the precious little thing when she’s quiet and peaceful just...

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Getting Dressed For First Time: Nora’s First Outfit

Nora’s Face - Day 2: Nora’s First Outfit

Nora’s Face - Day 2: Nora’s First Outfit

This is a good bunch of pictures to have my face included in. http://is.gd/phLa (not safe for the...

My child has cried herself hoarse. I’m sure this makes me eligible for some kind of parenting...

Haven’t eaten anything yet today. No time. Too busy parenting.

Running paperwork errands and watching live streamng video of my daughter in her crib on my iPhone.

Nora’s First Outfit

Good morning, World! http://twitpic.com/2hpg2

Good first night. Four consecutive hours of sleep for everyone.

Thumb sucking: Unfortunately the milk doesn’t come out...

First time in her own clothes

Doing Hair Before Giving Birth: Waiting For Nora

68.4 kg Max Pregnancy Weight: Waiting For Nora

Final Pregnancy Belly: Waiting For Nora

First Family Member Visit: Waiting For Nora

Nervous Daddy: Waiting For Nora

Calling My Parents With The Good News: Waiting For Nora

Big hospital bed

Nora’s Feet - Day 2

It turns out that having a little perfectly behaved sleepy angel girl all day for the visitors has a...

Secret to success: letting mom and baby be in a silent room at home by themselves rather than a...

Home again home again jiggety jig.

New thumb sucking photo on Flickr. Can’t post link from iPhone.

First successful breast feeding with actual milk coming out. Hooray! Health concern count drops to...

Birth of a Daughter - Twitter Feed

Waiting For Nora

Turtles all the way down

Hearing test passed with flying colors (melodies?).

More sleep than expected, even with roommate Dr Jeckyl baby turning into…well you know. Today...

Trying to sleep in same room as daughter for first time. I fear that the beam of paternal adoration...

A little annoyed that the rest of the world hasn’t noticed how completely and totally...

Hopefully this rate of 0.25 gifted stuffed animals per hour of life will drop off. Otherwise...

First step on the path to self awareness: not being terrified by your own sneezes. Check!

Sharing hospital room freakishly peaceful angel baby is making Nora look bad. What an asshole.

Birth is Exhausting

Parenthood Begins

Waiting for Nora

Pink Hospital Menagerie: No, this is not all of them.

Mark to Market - A Tale of Two Cows

Chimps Have a Built-In GPS

OMG there’s nothing like holding your own 3-hour-old child in your arms. Freakin magical!

Photos on Flickr!!

Final prep. http://twitpic.com/2ejp0

So far I’m crying more than my hour-old daughter.

Epidural drip ran out. She shouts (in English) “Get me the candy man, stat!!”

Still waiting……….. Inlaws arrived.

And she’s out!! Nora Rasmussen Matamoros has escaped from the womb. She’s perfect of...

Made it home. Letting mother-in-law take stay-in-hospital watch tonight. I’m dead dog tired....

Who knew a sneeze could be so completely adorable?

Exhaustion setting in.

Nora Flickr Debut: Here’s your picture, impatient...

The Chin: Hey, I know that chin!

erikras: http://twitpic.com/2eh3r

Local family noified. Initate Basque caravan.

Contractionating. http://twitpic.com/2eh3r

Augmented Reality: One Step Closer To The...

The Gift Of Light

There is only one god and his name is Epidural Anesthesia. No change. Both (all 3?) got a little...

Stupid noisy well rested morning shift! I hate you all.

Nurses say she’s still “green”. As in “not ripe”. Sigh…

At hospital. Contractions every 7 minutes or so. The 2 hrs waiting at home before it was...

Banished from room. Wandering around eerie silent 4:30am hospital. Almost entered morgue by...

Man, this whole reproduction thing is unfair and unbalanced.

M: This kid’s coming soon! Me: So we should go to hospital? M: I should do my hair first....

How is it that Morgan Freeman hasn’t aged in the past 15 years (since Shawshank Redemption)?

Interesting Scene: How many of the items in the tags can you...

If Hell existed, which it doesn’t, I’m pretty sure Back Pain would feature prominently...

What did carpenters do before the invention of the tape measure? And why haven’t they all been...

Will Erik be able to resist the apparently irresistible urge to add his daughter’s face to his...

Favorite Fragile Possessions

“Pump up your favorite drink and fire the Wild West style pistol at will. Holster holds your...

The Kosovo problem

Tweeted this story last week, but worth another one. http://is.gd/odqC Go Spain, and go Science!!

My 30” monitor feels small already. Sigh….

Yay! New Yorker cartoon iPhone app! http://tinyurl.com/c7gcdu

Oh my god*jesus! http://is.gd/oftM Great set name: “Toys that shouldn’t exist but...

“Rainbows are God’s way of frowning at gay people.” - Stephen T. Colbert, Mar 19,...

If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons

What the close-up? #3: Do you know what this is? Submit your...

Saffron Prices: The box on the left is 0.375 grams net...

Experimenting with new pizza toppings today. Nervous about outcome.

What the close-up? #3

Undersea eruptions near Tonga

Campoo: Most of the photos on Flickr: And a street name in...

Abandoned Toddler Shoe: Whah?

Birth Rate at Laredo Hospital: I thought there’s been...

Cubist Painting in Maternity Ward Waiting Room: While...

Not the most calming thing to look at while you’re waiting for your child to be born....

Pirates for Jesus! R.I.P, Captain Hook. I hardly knew ye. Actually I didn’t know ye existed....

Practice run to maternity ward. Nothing happening today, but glad to get to know the place....

How true this is. http://tinyurl.com/ahwor4

Where The Wild Things Are…the movie?? http://is.gd/nTrA Whoa! Dangerous moving such a beloved...

40 minutes into “Seven Pounds” and confused as hell.

Screw it, I’m going Eagle! http://is.gd/nYaF

I have GOT to stop reading about Christian dogma. Did you know that Mary got knocked up *before* she...

Faith and Magnets

San Jose - Father’s Day

Mr. Spock is Not Logical (book draft excerpt)

Believable Stupidity In Game AI

Southern Roof Panorama: The sun rises at the left end of...

I think it’s rather absurd that we ascribe our own religions to our pets. Bumper stickers to...

I’ve felt like doing this sometimes. http://is.gd/nQ9w

Just discovered “ignore all invites from this friend” button on FriendFace. Glory...

Watching HD movie trailers on 30” monitor. Awesome. Just noticed Cameron from House is...

Wikipedia and Google resolve yet another “I bet there’s a name for that!”...

Getting waaaaay too excited about iPhone 3.0.

Just valiantly fought and killed an enormous housefly. Pregnant wife and offspring insider her,...

Am I the only one that hears Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” when watching...

Cool geek points for Spain! http://is.gd/nHUn

Death Switch Sends Out Emails Upon Your...

Thanks, Canada, we appreciate the effort. http://is.gd/nGAW

European Parking

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, everybody!!!! http://is.gd/nFmT

Neighbors making banging noises at 10pm. All home improvement activities that could explain the...

Surreal Becomes Real With Toys And AR

Probably a Bad Idea

Alternative Energy Revolution

Idea: Not Your Usual Talking Dog Movie

Perverse Incentives

30 inches of goodness: Thirty Inches, Baby!

NeoCube: I managed to make the cube in under an hour from...

Peugeot 1007: European Parking

Peugeot 1007: European Parking

My unborn child punched me in the kidneys last night. I’m convinced she’s a ninja.

Carpet wars are about to get a lot more awesome. http://is.gd/nwTm

Thirty Inches, Baby!

Haute Provence Star Trails

The iPhone needs a native Gmail application

Siesta from 3pm to 6pm means tough getting to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight.

Just watched Bilbao-Madrid soccer game with 7 goals (5-2 Madrid), two red cards, and ELEVEN yellow...

Celebrating Mars, then and now

Caret browsing? http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikrasmussen/3350948175/

Is anyone else annoyed with the flashiness of the CSI intro lately? Just because you have 6 years of...

HOORAY for 25 degree weather!

Scary Friday 13th blog comment. http://is.gd/ng13 The Second Coming or date rape victim? Hard to...

Okay, so the siege

The magic number

Introduction to the ad auction

Respigos: Respigos - Colliding Gastronomic Cultures

Caret Browsing?: I’ve never heard of this. This popped...

Respigos - Colliding Gastronomic Cultures

Listening to NPR-Fresh Air about US Healthcare System. Makes me glad I don’t live there....

I’m a-frayed I have an iPhone cable problem....

TUAW Tip: Fixing syncing between iPhone and...

IKEA Checkout Hell

What the close-up? #2: Do you know what this is? Go submit...

My iPhone Cable Is Breaking

What the close-up? #2

Little Girl Clothes

Oh dear! Who’s going to tell Kermit? http://is.gd/n1rD

31 GB, 9 season Seinfeld download completed after several months sucking the bittorrent teat....

iTunes shuffling through a playlist with Wagner opera, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Howlin’ Wolf....

Idea: Progressively Packed Produce

Little Girl Clothes

Some dude drew on my Diet Coke photo (with permission). Weird. NSFW language. http://is.gd/mTRr...

http://is.gd/mSY7 Vertical-only scaling is rough on the physique.

Does your crapper have Quattro Flushing Technology(tm)? I didn’t think so, you loser....

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Coin Bouncing: Coin Bouncing

Vitoria Theater

Ever notice in the opening FamilyGuy credits that the co-producer is Cherry Chevapravatdumrong?...

In line with Obama’s decision to “look forward and not back [at Bush war crimes]”,...

Converted AdSense account to euros. Earnings report is even more depressing now.

Cut left index finger on cheese grater. Typing very diffcult. Especially words like...

Miscellanea » Archive » The United States of...

United States of Obesity. http://tinyurl.com/bmu8ya

Basque Signature Extortion

RT @qikipedia: The poet AE Housman kept a notebook in which he jotted down useful insults and...

Great blog comment: “I am one gassy sonofabitch when I dig into that fresh loaf.”...

Discovered and fell in love with Edge.org today. Why no RSS feed?!?! Grrr!! It’s very TED-ish....

As an anglophone web developer in Iberia, sometimes my <span> tags come out as <spain>...

Edge: IS THERE A HIGGS?:—A Talk With Brian...

First Crib Ornament

Crib Ready: First Crib Ornament

Crib Ornament: First Crib Ornament

Crib Ornament Legs: First Crib Ornament

Astronomers declare February no longer a...

APOD: 2009 March 9 - Kepler s Streak

Finally I can get my ham & cheese fix without so much chewing and more licking and sucking....

Let's Touch Base: The cubicle...

Why the Internet is Awesome

In checkout queue at IKEA trying to think non-homocidal thoughts.

Watching oldskool episode of House. It really was better with the original Chase-Cameron-Foreman...

4-Year-Old's Idea Of Barbie, Ken Marriage...

things that make you want to live just about...

ESA Exhibit At Local Mall

Today is my maternal grandfather’s 94th birthday. Happy birthday, Grandpa! http://is.gd/m6JF

A Pleasurable Find - TIME

Just spent an hour letting some guy I’ll never see again call me “Enrique” about...

It’s been a while since xkcd made me laugh out loud. http://xkcd.com/552/

Ecuador....Chimborazo

A Year of the App Store: Successes and...

Sorry, but I don’t have a favorite shop, teacher, restaurant, author, or first boss or pet....

YouTube Link Preview - Greasemonkey Script

OS X Variable Replacement Snafu: Good going, Apple.

Damn, that was fast! Best ISP ever!

Internet connection on the fritz. Good thing I have this 3G iPhone so I can complain about it on...

What is your favorite security question?: Bloody hell,...

Downloaded new U2 album in 3 minutes flat.

U2 album meets sufficient levels of awesome. Rock on, Mr. Hewson!

Got caught in hail storm and 50+ mph winds on the way back from the grocery store one block away....

Eureka! And The Tale OF The T-Man

What the close-up? #1: If you think you know what this is,...

What the close-up? #1

Space, now in 3D

We’re all doomed! Run for your lives! http://is.gd/lMG5 It’s the robot uprising of the...

The most important step in

Listening to @NPRamericanlife about banking crisis. Unbelievably depressing. The end is nigh!

My unborn daughter has had the hiccups for the past hour. Weird.

Just discovered that Spanish JPGs are typically 254 dpi (not 300 dpi like in US). Makes sense. 10...

Sketchup + IKEA = ______. a) awesomest thing ever. b) sign of the swedish apocalypse....

It’s enough to make your lip bleed!

Just spilled purple yogurt all over my pants and shoes. I had a reverse-deja-vu moment where I could...

Spent morning as only man in conference room with 16 pregnant women learning about baby...

Cassini spots a moon, solves a mystery

Watching #VickyCristinaBarcelona. Halfway through and Señorita Oscar has yet to make an appearance.

Twitter’s account suspension “foul owl” (I made that up, but apparently others use...

Foul Owl?: The Foul Owl brings bad news of a crescent moon...

Don’t you hate it when you mean to say “support” and you accidentally say...

My second favorite domain name linking to me because of my Flickr plugin (after omg-ponies.com) has...

What If God Disappeared?

First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper...

Horizontal Stripes Make You Look…