Category Archives: Family
Trouble
Getting through the checkout line was a lot easier once we told all these crazy kids they had to go sit against the wall
Ninja Babies
Click Clack Click Clack
Reese’s Halloween drawing
Bear in the City
1st Day of School
Yeah, I guess I do…
- Reese: “That looks like fun! What are you doing?”
- Me: “Work.”
- Reese: “You get to make doodles for work!?”
Maybe I shouldn’t take the awesomeness of my job for granted.
Freedom!
The battle continues.
Anna got upset because she got in trouble for arguing with Reese and wrote “This house stinks!” on her magna-doodle (Spelled like this, “THS HAOS STNKS!”). This infuriated Reese, “That is false! This is an awesome house!”
I stepped in and said, “Reese, just leave her alone. She can write whatever she wants.” Without missing a beat Reese yells, “That’s right! That’s what makes this such an awesome house. We have the freedom to write whatever we want to write Anna!”
Later we found this note Reese had left for Anna:
American Monkeys
- Anna: “Reese, you aren’t playing nice. Your monkeys won't do what my Hello Kitties say!”
- Reese: “That’s because my monkeys are from an American jungle. They have freedom.”
- Anna: “I don’t want them to have freedom. I want them to do what I tell them to do!”
The Family Business
Reese listened in as I ran a remote usability test today. He sat on my lap and put in one of my earphones.
It made me feel like a shoemaker or something teaching my son the trade. Unfortunately, I don’t think he wants to take on the family business so if movies and books are to be trusted I will need to guilt trip him about letting me down until he earns my love by becoming a User Experience Designer.
Happy 4th of July!
My Invention – By Reese, age 7
If I made an invention to work and play and stand at attention and do what I say it would be a robot named Rumble Ray.
The first one failed and so did number two, but three was perfect and could play kazoo! It did all the things I wanted it to do!
It even cleaned my room this fast — ZOOM!
penrod family acrobats
Egg
I don’t know Lucy, maybe you should take a bite of the hardboiled egg instead of shoving the whole thing in your mouth…
Overheard
Sometimes I lie and say I put toothpaste on my toothbrush but I just use water. But Reese always tells on me, which is not nice for me
-Anna
I Love You Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!
I was just in San Francisco for work and I kept thinking, “This would be so much more fun if Adrienne were here!” After nearly 11 years of marriage I still miss her when I am away for just a day or two. If it is longer than a few days I start doing things like this. Not because of some sort of neediness, but because life is so much more fun with her.
Also, she is hot.
Past Adrienne Days
Take a minute and wish Adrienne a Happy Adrienne Day!
My Brother Has a Show Coming Up!
Joe Penrod – Swarm Gallery Feb 20th–March 29
Here is a nice write up of Joe’s work:
Penrod certainly isn’t the first artist to try to preserve shadows — one might argue that the history of photography has been one long inquiry into the preservation of shadows — but I love the playfulness of the bright blue tape, and the whimsy involved in trying to finish the taping and photographing before the shadow has moved. The movement of the shadows enables some of my favorite pieces, like this one on a Williamsburg street corner:
The Swarm Gallery exhibition, at 560 2nd Street near Jack London Square, will last from February 20th to March 29th. Among the many objects whose shadows Penrod has tried to snare are orange traffic cones, and his Swarm installation will involve traffic cones as well. You can also find more work on Penrod’s blog or his Flickr portfolio (there’s more than just the tape outlines, even though that’s all I’ve mentioned here.) Good stuff, I think, and I definitely plan to check it out in person when the show opens.
Moustache
Entirely his own doing.
Robot
Entirely his own doing.
I Love You Adrienne, Happy Adrienne Day!
It’s Adrienne Day!*
Do you want to know what Adrienne got for Adrienne Day? See that heart right there? That is from the Holiday font set from House Industries. How great is it that my wife asks for fonts as a present‽ ←What my little font-nerd friends? Did I just drop an interrobang on you? Yes, yes I did.
It is harder to orchestrate a great Adrienne day now that we have three kids, but the way Adrienne deals with them makes me want to give her 365 Adrienne Days. She is far more likely to be drawing, painting, writing, reading, or having a dance party with them than she is to park them in front of the TV. I think that if we were landed gentry with access to the finest tutors in the world our kids minds would not be in better hands than they are in now–or my mind for that matter…
It is the greatest thing in the world to be married to someone like Adrienne. We can talk about anything as equals. The first time we really hung out together in college we ended up talking for 6 hours. We can still talk for 6 hours and never be bored.
Also, she is hot.
Please take a second to wish Adrienne a happy Adrienne Day.
•Here is a brief history of Adrienne Day.