COMPLICATED GAME

I’ve decided to give Joey his own website!  I’ve moved all of his pictures and videos over to the new place… http://www.josephwalkerkeane.com

Enjoy!

“Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of is life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little too is the longest fame to come — dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.10

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Just in time for Spring 2008!

My 2nd annual list of the best albums of 2007.

Someone was brilliant enough to post this documentary of Kim Peek on YouTube.  Kim Peek was the inspiration for the 1988 Dustin Hoffman movie, Rain Man.  This is a fascinating 45 minute program that explores a bit of Kim’s extraordinary talent for memory, his unique relationship with his aging father, who is Kim’s sole caretaker, as well as a little bit on the developmental condition which has rendered Kim a savant: agenesis of the corpus callosum.

Part 1 of 5 (YouTube)

We respond differently to babies faces within 150 milliseconds

“So almost immediately after seeing infant faces, adults show a dramatically different response compared to equivalently emotional and attractive adult faces; a response they may not even be aware of.”  - from the Cognitive Daily article

Interesting article.  Adult brains respond to pictures of babies much differently than pictures of other adults… and fast!

Work has been beating me like a rented mule for the past couple of weeks. It was a mad rush to get the LSU Press website finished and ready for launch by February 1st. Naturally, it took a few days after uploading the new site for things to start looking right. Even now I am waiting for Google to re-index our site so it will return correct search results. All in all, though, I am proud of the work I’ve done on it.
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Melissa and I were addicted to SingSnap for a while there back in 2006. After a few months, though, we felt we had sung and recorded everything that was on there that we wanted to do. On a lark I went to the site today and realized they have added *hundreds* of new songs. Perhaps we’ll set up the gear and do some more singing?

In the meantime, here is the best thing Melissa and I did in 2006:

5 Fail-safe Rituals for Protecting Your Newborn

I especially like the one about the Hot Potato.  Apparently this is what happened with Graham… and look how great he turned out.