Say hello to Isaiah Joseph Murray, our new baby boy! Vital stats: 9lbs 10.4oz, 22″, born 4/20 at 11:45pm. Franny did this au natural, which was impressive (and fast - only 45 minutes of pushing - she was a rockstar!) He is huge, and rock solid. The nurses said he was the strongest baby they had ever seen - they had to use all their weight to pin him down for shots, etc. Too funny!
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Isaiah is primarily named after Isaiah in the bible, though there
are other great Isaiahs we are thinking of as well. Isaiah means “God
is salvation” or “God is my helper”. Our favorite Isaiah verse:
I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who
will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me’ —Isaiah 6:8
One of our favorite “other Isaiahs” is Isaiah Berlin, who wrote about
individual freedoms in society, distinguishing between positive and
negative liberty (arguing for freedom to be securely in the hands of
individuals and only grudgingly relinquished to the state). As
independants and libertarians, this strikes home with Franny and I.
Franny and I just discovered Comic Life, which came bundled on our new MacBooks. For those not in the know, it is a brilliant application that makes it easy to compile photos and more into comic strips, complete with word bubbles, etc. For those of us who love documenting memories but hate typical scrapbooks… this is a god-send. It is also fun for all kinds of neat little projects. We created a fun little adventure comic starring our nieces and nephews - some teasers are included below. Click on them for the full comic at phanfare.
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Francesca and I splurged - new MacBooks! This is our last capital expenditure prior to the baby’s arrival - Franny’s laptop (Sony P.O.S.) was dying its final death, and my Dell 700m, which was a trooper, was killing my hands (tiny keyboard) and eyes (tiny screen). The MacBooks fit the bill - beautiful machines. Franny’s has 2GB RAM, mine only has 1GB . Small hard drives - we’ll need to upgrade in the near term (only 60GB… almost full already). We’re running OS X, no problems switching our lives (though we have the windows desktop left for special cases).
James the Rocketmonkey got us Techshell covers - they are very cool. Helps us figure out which laptop is which. Actually, he ordered us 1 Techshell, and they sent the wrong one, so we got to keep a free pink one. It worked out perfectly, and they were very good about it. When we were looking into these, we couldn’t find any good photographs of what they actually looked like - for some reason the website itself doesn’t have close-ups. So after setting up our new MacBooks and getting the covers on, we took some photos to share with the world :
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. Small hard drives - we’ll need to upgrade in the near term (only 60GB… almost full already). We’re running OS X, no problems switching our lives (though we have the windows desktop left for special cases).
