category archive: personal

the Lighty Bear GIFs

Cheris took her camera & tripod into Graham’s room a few weeks back and got some great shots of the kiddo as his favorite stuffed bear cycled through its light routine. Since animated GIFs seem to be back in fashion these days, I thought I’d make a couple. I’m not sure if you can export [...]

new song: Your Sing-a-ma-jigs And You

Just posted another new song over at http://rob.lifford.org/ysay/. As I mentioned on Twitter when releasing this, someday I suppose I’ll record “serious” music again, but until then, you’ll get weird stuff like this. Like Cheris and I always say to the kids, “you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.” Turning off [...]

DL at Becker

Hey Austin-based folks, if you have preschool or kindergarten age kids, or you know people who do please, take a sec to read this. I’m trying to help get out the word about AISD’s two-way Dual Language pilot program, and particularly the transfer opportunities to join that program (and Violet!) at Becker Elementary. This was [...]