Month: June 2006

On my Dad’s memorial site I added a feature that displays the total number of comments for each story next to it in the listing. That way you’ll be able to see if new comments have been made since you last loaded the site.

Stephen Colbert totally nails Congressman Westmoreland (R-Ga) on his stance of putting the ten commandments in courthouses. Colbert asks him to name them. Guess how many he can come up with.

I’m finally ready to post these. Many of you know that my Dad was a musician. In fact, I learned to play guitar on that big beautiful Guild he had. He didn’t write many songs, but mostly played his favorite artists such as John Prine, John Hiatt, Robert Earl Keen, and Todd Snider. My Dad’s renditions of these songs are legendary at family functions, which might sound like I’m overstating it but my Mom’s family is huge. She’s one of fourteen kids.

After my Dad died I searched through some old videos and minidisc recordings he did and found four decent recordings of his music. My plan is to release one song per week here on the site, so every Friday there will be a new song by Mark Garvey. The first one is a cover of an old standard done by Dylan, Elvis, and many more. I have no idea who wrote it, but that’s not important. The song is stripped from a video taken by my Mom when I was about 11 or 12, so you’ll hear some random audio during it. Enjoy.

Mark Garvey – Fool Such as I

Renowned physicist and author Stephen Hawking thinks we are wasting our opportunity to create a human colony away from Earth. He thinks we’re risking the destruction of the human race from “sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.”

See also, MC Hawking.

I set up a website for my people to post memories of my Dad. The main story posting is a modified guestbook, but the commenting is all new code I wrote for it. Eventually I’ll probably move it all over to custom code, but for now it works.

Yes, you read that right. I’m proud to announce that on or around November 13th, 2006, Jeanne and I will be the proud parents of a new baby. Hopefully in a few weeks we should know if it’s a girl or a boy.

So far the baby is doing fine. The books say it can hear us now, so I’ve been asking it trivia questions. It should be ready for Infant Jeopardy soon after birth.

It’s a shame that my Dad won’t get to meet his first grandchild, but at least he got to know it was on the way and he was so excited when he found out. He would have been such an awesome Grandpa.

On a humorous note, check out the Mother’s Day card Michaela and McKenzie (you may know them from Cutie Theater) wrote for Jeanne from our baby. Click to enlarge.

This guy is living on a diet of Monkey Chow for a week and keeping a daily blog. So far he’s lost 5 lbs and his poop is described as “problematic.”

It’s been tough to post anything on here since my Dad died, but this story was just too incredible and devastating to pass over. I’m sure it will be all over the news this week.

The story involves two Taylor University students in a car crash resulting in one of them dying and the other being in a coma.

INDIANAPOLIS – A couple sat by their daughter’s hospital bedside for weeks after an auto accident until she came out of a coma and they realized she was not their daughter after all, but another blond-haired young woman injured in the wreck. Their own daughter, it turned out, was dead and buried.

Unbelievable. Read on.