Calling All Nerds

Keeping track of everyone's email addresses has been getting harder and harder. I've created a Yahoo Group, callingallnerds, for this purpose.

Samuel Kijima Day 2

Some pictures of David and Aya's new son, Samuel. Sam is very vocal, and at 8 lbs 4 oz and climbing, quite strong. He loves (needs?) the sounds of Aya's and Dave's heartbeat.

January 2005 Snowstorm

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I finally got around to uploading some pictures from the big January snowstorm. The whole album is available on shutterfly.com.

[RELEASE] SamuelKijima version 1.0.0

Yamaguchi-Goldman International Services have announced the immediate product release of their new flagship baby product, SamuelKijima.

SamuelKijima, code-named, "Samuel", has been in final production stage for over nine months, and in product planning stages considerably earlier than that.

"Samuel" rolled off the Aya Yamaguchi-Goldman production line Friday March 25 2005 at approximately 12:10am (EST). The entire 26 hour production run went more or less smoothly, though, as production supervisor David Goldman reports, "the last 2 1/2 hours was a real labor." Product Manager Aya Yamaguchi-Goldman was in the break room and unavailable for comment.

The "Samuel" product is loaded with interesting features (please see seperate press release). Initial product specifications indicate a shipping weight of eight pounds, 4 ounces, and an overall length of 19 1/2 inches. Although this appears to be at the high end (size and weight-wise) for the production facilities, no production problems (except for the expected initial production run delays) were experienced.

"Samuel" will be presented to the public at an official product roll out in the near future.

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That's about as far as I can stretch that joke. Aya and Dave are doing fine. Everyone is healthy and happy and exhausted. Aya is expected to return from the hospital on Sunday, possibly earlier. Dave's parents flew in last night (Aya's have been staying with them for a few weeks). Dave still sounds like (an exhausted, ecstatic, in-shock) Dave. They want to avoid a crowd scene at the hospital and will send out an "all clear" for visits next week.

I'm not sure if it was really "26 hours" ... I had a little trouble following Dave's timeline. He felt they got to the hospital a bit earlier than they should have.