We’ve returned from a week in Alaska, and have just said goodbye to our New Year’s party guests, so we haven’t had much time to reflect on the past year, busy blur that it was. We’ve made a lot of changes in the last twelve months, and though I can’t say I’m sad to see […]

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It’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging for ten years here now, off and on. The first entry would hardly warrant a tweet these days, and I’ve certainly slacked off in the last few years with the arrival of the kids, for various reasons, but I’ve had a few good stretches over the years, and […]

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The news of Huell Howser’s passing this week came as a sad shock, an unexpected and abrupt end to a life that had given us so much over the last few years. From the moment we moved here, I began recording every one of his many PBS travel and history shows and watching them religiously, […]

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We’ve been waiting expectantly for our daughter’s arrival, which was predicted to be around November 8. On November 1, though, Aimee’s doctor told her that surprise, she’d be having the baby the next day. We headed to the hospital at 6:00 am, and just after noon, Lucy arrived with great fanfare and, thankfully, little drama. […]

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I described Steve Jobs to someone yesterday as having had the most influence on my life of someone I’d never met. I think that’s fair to say, considering all of the various parts of my life that have been touched by his work, starting back in the early ’80s when we got our first Apple […]

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This past weekend marked the fifth anniversary of our move to Los Angeles. It’s hard to believe this is now the place I’ve lived longer than anywhere since Alaska, and that I’ve had my current job longer than any other in my life. But here we are, with a house, a kid, and five years […]

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My first two games taped on a Friday, but the crew wasn’t due to return to taping until more than a week later, on that next Tuesday. I think it was related to the IBM Challenge; either way, it gave me ten days of being the reigning Jeopardy! champion, without of course being able to […]

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I’m going to be on Jeopardy! tomorrow night. This is the story of how that happened. I wasn’t a huge Jeopardy! watcher as a kid, and watched even less of it as an adult, but I’ve always enjoyed playing along at home, and it’s hard not to be amazed at the show’s longevity. At various […]

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‘Nuff said.

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Hard to believe my car is 15 years old.

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Aimee and I put together our Top 10 (and Bottom 5) Films of the Year lists this past weekend, which reminded me that, as a life-long nostalgist and inveterate list-maker, I have done precious little reflection on the fact that we’ve just completed a decade and moved onto a new one. I haven’t gone back […]

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A visit from Aimee’s friend Alec gave us the opportunity to re-visit the Getty, where we hadn’t been in awhile (has it really been more than two years?). We spent a long afternoon there yesterday, taking in the Carleton Watkins 19th century photo exhibition as well as the Baroque show and the permanent collection.We had […]

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Only in L.A., indeed.

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It’s time for the end of the year wrap-up, which I haven’t really done with any consistency (see the Best Live Shows of 2004 and Top Ten Films of 2004), but I’m going to give it a shot. 2008 has been an extremely busy year for us, our second full year in Los Angeles, one […]

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