We have 2 inches of solid snow on the ground and it doesn't look like it is stopping any time soon. Paul worked from home today so that worked out for us. The traffic reports look dismal.
The snow in this photo isn't as impressive as it feels.
And today Nov. 28 in the daylight ...
This is the spot where Paul and Laura Cooley are sharing quips, queries, quibblings, quirks, and quantifications of their daily lives. To the title: Zee or Zed? The quandary continues to this a most complicated and highly controversial argument that Laura and Paul have had over the pronunciation of the letter 'Z'. It may summarize our daily cross-cultural lives as an American and a Canadian share all that matters, and several things that don't matter, with each other.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Saturday, November 18, 2006
YouTube Movie of our Kittens Kona and Comox
This is the little movie of our Kittens: Kona and Comox. I posted this a couple weeks ago. They definiately oscillate between trouble and cute.
Paul
Paul
Friday, November 17, 2006
Makes you think - Construction Crane Falling in Bellevue
Darryl Holman wrote up an article about this in his Blog.
This was all at once shocking, riveting, and scary. Looking down from the 12th floor of the office I work out of and seeing a 12 story crane lying on its side. Considering that given it falling 180 degrees it would have been the building I use that would be damaged. It is too close for comfort and sitting and dwelling on it doesn't make it better.
It is a solid reminder of all those things that are cliches: Remember to tell your wife you love her; Remember to live each day to its fullest; Remember to focus on what matters; ... Life is truly not perminant.
Paul, remember to remember to make your life matter.
This was all at once shocking, riveting, and scary. Looking down from the 12th floor of the office I work out of and seeing a 12 story crane lying on its side. Considering that given it falling 180 degrees it would have been the building I use that would be damaged. It is too close for comfort and sitting and dwelling on it doesn't make it better.
It is a solid reminder of all those things that are cliches: Remember to tell your wife you love her; Remember to live each day to its fullest; Remember to focus on what matters; ... Life is truly not perminant.
Paul, remember to remember to make your life matter.
Crane in Bellevue
Sunday, November 12, 2006
The dawn of Zee or Zed
Several weeks ago and my wife stated, "You never blog about anything 'interesting'". Several weeks before that that I started to blog; a blog that was documentation, how-tos, and various other tools of the trade in what turns out to be the day-to-day sort of mini-projects that employ a soul who enjoys solving problems with technology. Several months before that my wife suggested I should blog. Several years before that my wife began her weblog. Returning to the present, here these words be. Truth be told, I've had thoughts I wanted to blog, but seemed inappropriate in my other more 'serious' blog.
Of course like the two to three other people would collect their insights on the internet, the next step was to arrive at a cute, witty, smart, life-changing name for our blog. It turns out there are a number of great names already taken -- grrr, a dollar short and, say, five years late. This landed us with the discovery of a topic that Laura and I have had countless times, the conversation of which dialect is correct in the linguistics of daily spoken English. The ol' is 'Z' pronounced zee or zed? Is it process or is it pracess? Is it about or aboot? Is it Java or Jaeva? Is it spelt color or colour? Truly something of the upmost importance to our daily lives, something that we are working out the solution to, albeit slowly.
There you have it. The unabridged story of Laura and Paul Cooley's shared blog named 'zee or zed.' It will be were we share with the world whatever wisdom we might have -- or not have.
I hope you enjoy it.
Paul + Laura
Our other online content:
http://linuxlore.blogspot.com
http://cyan73.livejournal.com
http://www.paulcooley.com
http://www.lauracooley.com
Of course like the two to three other people would collect their insights on the internet, the next step was to arrive at a cute, witty, smart, life-changing name for our blog. It turns out there are a number of great names already taken -- grrr, a dollar short and, say, five years late. This landed us with the discovery of a topic that Laura and I have had countless times, the conversation of which dialect is correct in the linguistics of daily spoken English. The ol' is 'Z' pronounced zee or zed? Is it process or is it pracess? Is it about or aboot? Is it Java or Jaeva? Is it spelt color or colour? Truly something of the upmost importance to our daily lives, something that we are working out the solution to, albeit slowly.
There you have it. The unabridged story of Laura and Paul Cooley's shared blog named 'zee or zed.' It will be were we share with the world whatever wisdom we might have -- or not have.
I hope you enjoy it.
Paul + Laura
Our other online content:
http://linuxlore.blogspot.com
http://cyan73.livejournal.com
http://www.paulcooley.com
http://www.lauracooley.com
Zee or Zed
I wanted to be the first to post on Zee or Zed. I was going to make Paul name it Z or Zed to prove that Z doesn't not need to be spelled out. Now to get Paul to change the color of this blog. Orange is not working for me.
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