Electrolicious

Welcome, Oliver!

Ariel — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:02:14 +0000

Today, my sister-in-law Gillian gave birth to a son — little Oliver!

Andreas is in Missoula to meet his new nephew, and I’ll be there this weekend to say my own hellos.

For now, I get this photo of uncle and nephew meeting for the first time.

Get your BlackBerry out of our bed! - CNN.com

Ariel — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:47:15 +0000

“My husband’s not doing the unplugged thing; he doesn’t feel he needs to,” she says. “So there are nights that I’m unplugged and he’s checking his e-mail and surfing on his laptop, and I’m like, ‘Grrrrr.’”

What it’s really like to be on TV

Ariel — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:28:52 +0000

Friday night I was on ABC’s World News with Charlie Gibson, talking about 52 Nights Unplugged in the context of a segment about multi-tasking and time management.

TV is a weird beast, and one I’ve learned a lot about in the last year. For the curious, here’s what this particular experience was like.
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Ariel Aggregator

Ariel — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:37:59 +0000

I’m on tumblr.com — now, can anyone tell me why? I guess if you want to follow all three of my blogs and my Flickrstream, you can do it there.

Passages

Ariel — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:34:57 +0000

Andreas got calls today from Montana: his step-mother’s battle with cancer has taken a turn for the worse, and doctors are giving her a prognosis of a couple weeks. He flew out to Missoula on a one-way ticket tonight.

In a twist of painful divine poetry, Dre’s sister’s baby is due in a week.