I love this image by Claudio Munoz (claudiomunoz.com) for the Economist. It seems like the perfect setting for a story: a dark, rocky landscape where a happy hooligan, mad scientist and deranged frankenstein businessman have all been living in medieval tower brimming with security. If that doesn’t sound like the premise for a book, I don’t know what is.
Last night we hung all of the remaining picture frames, arranged the baby toys, put up our mobile, and plugged in some night lights to help us walk around in the dark…. sounds suspiciously like nesting…
We’re expecting our first child a day or a month from now… which is a really awkward range for planning. But it’s made me think about priorities. Every night may be the last night we have before the baby, so we decide what’s the most important thing to do before the baby and we do that.
I love the idea of letting your priorities guide your night. It’s too easy to slip into patterns simply because they’re patterns…. so what do you really want to do?
Scientific America reported today that Africa is getting too hot to grow chocolate. If that’s not enough to get a greenhouse setup in your own back yard, I don’t know what is.
How do we start a campaign for Asia, South America and other areas to start growing cocoa???
If I ever go back to school, I think I should get a physics degree. There are lots of mysteries greater than the Higgs Boson that need to be solved… such as why water occasionally jumps out of my water bottle and onto my glasses when all I did was nicely take a drink.
If I could only cast one actress for all my present and future books, I would probably pick Meryl Streep. She seems versatile enough to handle meaty roles, but could also handle comedy. I think she would be a good match my books, which I hope not only entertain but also provoke thought and have the possibility to change people. Who would you pick to cast your books?
-Steve
I recently read that we’re getting close to printing electronics (like circuit boards) in a printer… which would make them lighter, thinner, more flexible and cheaper.
If you could print and embed a phone into any object, what would it be? It sounds a bit cliche, but I would love a phone embedded in a real banana. I just worry what it would do to my productivity….
Last weekend we decorated my hand and my wife’s belly with some henna. In less than a week mine was gone and her’s was just starting to fade in a few places. That got me wondering: how many times do I wash my hands in an average day… So today I’m counting hand washes. It’s 11AM and I’m up to 8 already. (I think her belly washes have remained at 1.)
Authors Steve & Natasha