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After brief discussion, we have identified our top television show episodes of all time. This is based on some programs that are or were once our favorites, and those shows that stick out in our minds because they were hilarious, classy, memorable, strange, depraved, or just downright awesome. In alphabetical order — because how can you really rate them? — they are:

• Alias - “Facade” - Victor Garber interrogates Ricky Gervais by strangling him, then bringing him back to life with a defibrillator. Go Spy Daddy!
• Angel - “Smile Time” - Look at the frowny puppet face. And he gets his stuffing ripped out by a werewolf!
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - “Once More With Feeling” - Yes, it put a song in our hearts. Or several.
• Firefly - “Jaynestown” - “This must be what going mad feels like.”
• Gilmore Girls - “You Jump, I Jump, Jack” - In omnia paratus!
• Heroes - “Five Years Gone” - The Hiro/Peter fight scene!
• How I Met Your Mother - “Robin Sparkles” - Seriously, let’s go to the ma-a-all!
• Lost - “Pilot” - Doesn’t it seem like there should be others? Or do we mean Others?
• Psych - “American Duos” - “I feel like an angel baby swaddled in a cocoon of cloud candy.”
• Veronica Mars - “Look Who’s Stalking” - Being ON THE LAMB?

We shocked our pediatrician yesterday by telling him that our boy is consuming about 30 ounces of formula per day at this point. The average is 12-15, so the doctor exclaimed, “That’s atypical!” He seems to have no trouble eating — he gets that from daddy — and since it is, in theory, not possible to overfeed an infant, we’re counting ourselves lucky that he has such a healthy appetite and continues to gain weight. That’s 8 lbs, 5 oz on delivery, up four ounces the day after, and up to 8 lbs, 11 oz on the third day of his life. Keep going, little guy!

Please welcome Bram Dominic Preset-Hanulec, newly arrived as of Wednesday, May 21, 2008, at 1:43 a.m. He came in at 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 21 1/2 inches long. Check out photos of him here and look for future updates!

Note Tiffany in particular looks remarkably great in the photo taken at 3 a.m. just after having given birth. That lady’s got moxie!

(And by the way, since folks have asked, go ahead and pronounce Bram like cram, dram, or gram. That’s how we do it!)

Wow, this kid is going to have the most finished room in the house! Check out the photos of the baby’s room. We’ve been working really hard on it. Many thanks to all the folks who’ve given us gifts to populate it, to Tiffy’s parents for most of the furniture — especially her dad for repainting it! — and to Tina and Keith for their decorating/organizing and wallpaper border hanging prowess, respectively.

It was a happy day, and a long time in coming. Gregory Allen Posey, Jr. and Lanette Jackson Randall, our dear friends, were married today in a beautiful ceremony in a church near their home in New Jersey. Tomorrow they start the honeymoon in Disneyworld, lucky kids! Adam had a great time performing his duties as best man — helping the groom to get ready and stay groovy, as well as showing the groomsmen what’s what when it comes to cufflinks. He even got to give a speech, and didn’t pass out so … bonus! Tiffy was a lovely bridesmaid and wore a diaphanous apple-colored gown.

We only have a few candid shots in our photo album — it sure is hard to do a lot of snapping when you’re part of the ceremony — but what we have we’ve posted here for everyone to enjoy. Don’t forget to check out the video of some dancing at the very fun reception. We sat out, but it was great fun to watch! You can catch Greg at the front end of the clip, and Lanette at the end.

Check out the professional pics!

Best of luck to the happy couple!

Well, we’re certainly sure that our baby will be quite dapper — he got a lot of stylish outfits at our baby shower yesterday. We also got quite a few books, so we’re sure he’ll be extremely literate! We had a great time and enjoyed hanging out with all our family and friends. We certainly can’t thank all the planners and folks who chipped in to make this happen. We also can’t believe that it was possible to get about ten people standing in our kitchen all at once!  Check out the photos here: http://www.adamandtiffy.com/photos/v/recreation/2008babyshower/

I don’t have the attention span for longer posts at the moment, so go to Twitter. I’m following some tech blogger/journalist types and a friend or two.

As some folks know, we’re expecting the birth of our first child this May. We had an ultrasound last week, and in the spirit of the season, here’s a gift for those interested: It’s a boy!

There’s a lot of excitement around this new Mac OS X Leopard upgrade. If some of my work projects hadn’t made me swing around to the PC side, I’d be just as keyed up about it, probably. There some really good things to try out there, like Time Machine for backups or Spaces for virtual desktops. The latter is something I really miss from the days when I primarily ran Linux as my desktop OS.

Alas, now I’m mostly using Microsoft Windows Vista. It does remind me a bit of the good old days when I was using much less popular operating systems out of a certain kind of perversity. There was a bit of tweaking to do then, and there still is now.

(I’m testing Windows Live Writer now with WordPress to see if I can do offline composition with that tool to this blog. Let’s see if it works!)

There’s a social network for Ask A Ninja fans — http://fans.askaninja.com/ – and I can’t tell you whether I’ve joined it or not.