Brad’s Sketchpad

So, I’ve been reading Goodnight Moon a bit lately - every night for four months, to be exact. And here’s the strange thing. I’m always discovering things I haven’t noticed in the book. Here are a few:

The little mouse is hiding in nearly every picture. He’s the original Where’s Waldo.

Time: both clocks record the passage of time, as does the moon through the window.

The painting of the cow jumping over the moon in the room is itself the painting within the painting of the three bears sitting on chairs! Meta!

Goodnight Moon is itself the book sitting on the night table in room. Even more meta!

The little bunny has a telephone in his room. Okay that’s not a hidden secret, but it is sort of strange.

This is a shock. The girls have rejected the MacBook.

Cuteness abounds in photos of the girls, posted here.

Isabell and Calista Stone, fraternal twins, were born on 12/8/2007. I’m posting photos at IzzyandCallie.Shutterfly.com. I expect Jen (when she recovers) will post about the whole experience on her blog.
– The proud papa.

For Halloween this year, I dressed as Rorschach, from Alan Moore’s The Watchmen. Not many in the arts crowd at the annual Mystery Ball in the Marin Headlands knew who I was. Truth be told - in the mask, I couldn’t see all that well anyway.

Jennifer, meanwhile, 35 weeks pregnant, dressed as the elusive and nearly extinct California Puffin.

As birth of twins nears, we are gathering advice and wisdom from all corners of the animal kingdom.

Feel free to recommend other approaches.

The O’Reilly publication is called Security Power Tools and she contributes a chapter about the ethical and legal factors surrounding network security.

At the Times, we’ve started a new technology blog, Bits, to complement our reporting for the daily paper. Check it out here.

We’re off for a few weeks, and I’ve fallen miserably behind at keeping this space fresh. In the meantime, check out my page at NYTimes.com to stay updated on my latest work. And Go Cavs!

Amazon expands its shipping program to independent online retailers.

Silicon Valley startup Vudu creates an Internet movie store for the television.

The new wave of social networking for the mobile phone.