Blogs
For those of you new to the internet, a "blog" is short for "web log" and is used in many ways, but most often as an online journal of sorts. Here you can see the blogs that Chris and Alyssa keep. They'll show our lastest thoughts and happenings in our lives.
Chris's Blogs
- mental aquarium - A blog about the recent news, happenings, and fun thoughts Chris has had.
- Jan 7th - Games, Games, and More Games - part 4: - The latest in a series (see part 1 and part 2 and part 3) describing the games that we've purchased. Munchkin Impossible Alyssa has wanted this ever since we played it with our friends in CA,...
- Sep 15th - Can't Buy Me Love... But You Can Buy Me Rockband: - As I mentioned in a previous blog post, Alyssa and I were eagerly awaiting the release of Beatles Rockband, which was released last week. In the months before its release, we geared up for it with...
- Aug 24th - Pachinko Machine: - My parents bought a pachinko machine a number of years ago at a garage sale. We played with it when we were kids, so when we went to visit, I got it out for Ethan. He liked it. Pachinko is...
- Deeper into the Mist - A blog exploring some of Chris's more serious thoughts and ponderings.
- Mar 8th - Reasons To Believe in Global Warming: - In the interest of fairness, I thought I'd make a counter-post to my previous post about Global Warming. In that post I tried to imagine some of the deeper biases that a Global Warming denier...
- Mar 2nd - Reasons Not to Believe in Global Warming: - When searching for answers, we all tend to have confirmation bias, which means that we're likely to seek out answers that support conclusions that we've already come to. There are plenty of...
- Jan 31st - Politics on Facebook: - This morning I was scanning through Facebook when I found this entry: This really bugged me on a number of levels. First, it's completely illogical. The existence of famous people with positive...
Alyssa's Blog
- Sounding My Barbaric Yawp Across the Rooftops - Alyssa's blog about her life and thoughts.
- Mar 7th - "You Like Me! You Really Like Me!": The 2009 Whippy Awards: - Since there's a quiet, little awards show going on tonight, I thought I'd take a moment to give out my own awards for the best of 2009. I call it the Whippy Awards (based on my maiden name,...
- Feb 23rd - Preaching to the Choir: - This week there was a minor difference of opinion about where the ward choir should meet. Because I have a tendency to stick my nose where it doesn't belong in choir matters (I'm not the choir...
- Feb 12th - Where Have All the Blog Entries Gone?: - You've probably noticed that I haven't written a blog entry in a pretty long while. I went from doing a blog entry once a week, then downshifting to once a month, and now to never. There's a few...
Ethan's Blog
- The Sandbox - A blog about what's going on with the Rock kids.
- Oct 11th - Luke, I Am Your Father!: - Ethan's latest obsession is with Star Wars. He loves playing Lego Star Wars and he throws a bit of a tantrum every morning if he doesn't get to wear his Star Wars shirt. NOTE: He is wearing the shirt...
- Sep 25th - Ethan and Alex Videos: - This first video is of Ethan reading a 123 book the Grandma Rock got from him. He was reading each number in several different ways/volumes. We caught the end when he was reading about the number...
- Sep 15th - Videos of Ethan: - Just getting a few of our videos up online. This first one is inspired by the video game Street Fighter II. After doing this with him, I showed him the actual game. For a while he loved watching...