Today we had the rare pleasure of getting to watch the Colts game (not often aired in the St. Louis market). Lily wore her Colts cheerleader outfit, and we cheered on the Colts’ 38-20 victory over Denver.

Just a quick post with some new photos of Lily:

Playtime with Daddy!Photo © Chip Bennett, all rights reserved.

Trying out my new high chairPhoto © Chip Bennett, all rights reserved.

Trying out my new high chairPhoto © Chip Bennett, all rights reserved.

(I’m also trying out the Lightbox and Crossroads plugins.)

Sorry for the absence the past few days. I hit a few snags upgrading to the latest version (2.3) of Wordpress.
Everything should be working now; let me know if you run into anything amiss.

I got a very pleasant surprise today when I came home for lunch and found out that my pre-order of Gary Taubes’ new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, had arrived!
Here is the publisher’s description:

In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, [...]

Just a quick update with a couple new pictures. Lily has been learning to eat solid foods, and so far has taken well to Stage One foods such as applesauce, bananas, carrots, and squash:

Lily enjoying some Stage One carrots and applesauce.Photo © Chip Bennett, all rights reserved.
See more in the Lillian – Four Months set.

For Joshy (and the rest of us, too): I’m sure you’re working on your math tables, memorizing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of numbers from one through ten.
Do you need a shortcut for multiplying by four, five, nine, or eleven, or squaring two-digit numbers ending in five? How about subtracting a large number from 1,000? [...]

From this HealthFinder article comes news that scientists have identified stem cells from the testes of mice – and that these stem cells demonstrate pluripotency:
U.S. researchers say they’ve successfully reprogrammed adult stem cells from the testes of male mice into a wide variety of cell types, including functional blood vessels, contractile cardiac tissue, and brain [...]

I am often asked what my job – validation – entails, which is somewhat difficult for anyone not familiar with FDA-regulated industry.
Well, perhaps this AutomationWorld magazine article will help enlighten just a little bit, at least with respect to one aspect of my job. The article interviews and profiles yours truly, with regard to my [...]

Despite alarmists’ cries about the shrinking arctic ice cap, Antarctica just set a new record for most total ice extent (links in original; emphasis added):
While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has [...]

So, I missed the entire month of August, and the first part of September; but I have a good excuse: sometimes real life just gets in the way. Between, being out of town for a funeral, going on vacation, getting married, etc., I have just not had time to blog.
So what have you missed?
First, Lily [...]