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lifeasdaddy - W hotel Chicago's window falls out

Apparently a window fell out of a 17th floor room of The W hotel in Chicago yesterday.

Could be costly checking and fixing up all those windows.

lifeasdaddy - Another good boxing movie recommendation

I wrote here about my boxing movie suggestions.

I've been corresponding via email with John Mole, and he was surprised that I'd left The Harder They Fall (1956) Mark Robson off my list.   Actually, I've never seen the movie, but his suggestion made me look it up, and since it starred Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger with a cast including Max Baer and Jersey Joe Walcott I'll have to track down a copy for viewing.

lifeasdaddy - This jumper is too conservative for me. Apparently

Every so often, Gabrielle says something which makes me take a good look at myself.

Yesterday whe was looking through the latest David Jones department store catalogue, and pointed to a jumper and asked me if I'd like it.  I was looking at it, and thinking about it when she said, "No, I suppose not, that's just too conservative for you."

Here's a link to the catalogue page.  It's the jumper in the top left corner of the page.

"Sportscraft man's square plaid merino knit in chocolate." 

What I was actually thinking was that I'd owned a knitwear vest in the same pattern in the early 1980's and that  I'd usually worn it playing golf.  But after Gabrielle made her comment, I started to wonder about the clothes I wear.  Are they too outrageous?  I dunno.  I'll have to think about it some more.

Anyway, I thought the jumper was a bit too expensive anyway.  $130.

lifeasdaddy - Good interview with Grady Booch

I've been reading Grady Booch's blog for over a year.  John Simmons has put up this interview with Mr. Booch.  The format's a bit stilted, but Mr. Booch is a generous and informative interview subject.

If you've got an interest in computers and their impact on our lives, and you don't read Booch, then you've missing out on something good.

Grady Booch is an IBM fellow, and in the interview he describes his job as:

My role as a Fellow is to invent the future and to destroy bureaucracy, I’m a designated free radical for IBM, and it’s my job to disturb the norm, to think outside of the box, to make people uncomfortable with the status quo, plus have I have a license to do so.

How good is that?

lifeasdaddy - Some photos of Ed

Edward's fans are demanding more pictures on the blog.

So these should say a few thousand words:

Edward on Easter Sunday morning trying to eat an Easter Bilby.

Cousin Thomas gets Ed in a toe hold.

Mmmm.  These fish and chips are good. 

lifeasdaddy - Do you love me Daddy?

Sometimes Ed's questions surprise me, like these ones yesterday:

Daddy, do you love me?

Yes, Edward, I love you very much.

Daddy, do you love Mummy?

Yes, Edward, I love Mummy very much too.

It came out of nowhere, as far as I could tell.