163 posts from 2007

Miriam's vocabulary

Dec 28, 2007
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"Ay!" or "Aya!" : cat, dog, or "You need a haircut". It seems to mean "fuzzy creature."
"Dai" : diaper
"Shoe" : shoe
"Ba!" : bye bye
"Badyaba" : banana
"No!" : no means no!
"Kata" or "Akata" : cat
"Dada" : self-explanatory
"Mama" : self-explanatory

Miriam and the fire truck

Dec 25, 2007
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This picture was taken sometime in the summer during a routine fire drill at Miriam's daycare. The kids got a chance to interact with the firefighters. The card was made by the teachers for Chanukah.

Miriam says No! (take 2)

Dec 25, 2007
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Miriam says No

Miriam is dancing

Dec 25, 2007
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This is Miriam dancing and "singing" along to the theme song from the old Soviet cartoon "Cheburashka":

Miriam dancing

Miriam at her cousin Jonah's birthday party

Dec 11, 2007
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Miriam at Her Cousin Jonah's Party

Miriam wipes the floor with paper towels

Dec 10, 2007
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Miriam wipes the floor

We got a chance to use our AppleTV for a few days now and I have to say that it is quite an underrated little appliance. It does what it is supposed to do and does it well -- it syncs with the iTunes library on our family Mac and lets us play it through our TV and home theater system in the living room. That's it. No fussing around with a computer, no configuration needed. It is no more difficult to set up than an iPod. It just works.

The YouTube integration is great. It lets you log on to your YouTube account and control your favorites and stuff through your home theater system.

It is great and most importantly a lot less pain to use than our old Sony 400 disk DVD jukebox.

Just ordered an Apple TV

Dec 4, 2007
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Just ordered an Apple TV

http://www.apple.com/appletv/

I just ordered us an AppleTV appliance. I think it is an underrated product. If used for what it is -- a stationary iPod that syncs with one's iTunes library over WiFi and displays it on TV -- it is perfect.