I spent the final week of August with my family—my parents Melanie and Federico and my sister Nicole and her fiancée Mark—at a small cabin on a lake in New Hampshire. As we do every year, we swam and read and cooked and ate and talked and laughed and played Mexican Train Dominoes. And, as [...]
This year, this so-called 2008, has not been an easy one. Life shows no sign of easing up, slowing down, taking it easy. So it goes.
I lost a friend in February—Jordan Taggart was one of my first friends at Harvey Mudd and lived solidly at the core of me, Matty, Mike, Yip and others [...]
I totally own Google for “Carlos d’Avis” (see results) and for “Drew d’Avis” (see results) and I am even at number one for “Carlos Drew” and “Andrés d’Avis.” I am lacking a bit in other regards. The first result for “Andrew d’Avis” is about me but doesn’t lead to this website. More significantly, I think, [...]
Roger Ebert ranked Juno as the best film of 2007, beating out No Country for Old Men on the strength of the former’s emotional evocation. I am happy to say that I agree.
In other news, and briefly, I am in Massachusetts, having arrived yesterday morning. The thick layers of snow are melting away in today’s [...]
When I was back east this August, my sister gave me an old lens belonging to my late grandfather, Don McLaughlin. This old Nikon-mount fits perfectly and shoots fine on my D70 digital SLR, despite requiring full manual operation: aperture, shutter speed and focus. The lens is a Vivitar Wide-Angle 28mm 1:2.8. I would link [...]
WPG2 Plugin Not Validated * My mother and father, Melanie and Federico, display their garden bounty. Not Pictured: 4 or 5 dozen tomatoes we found ripe upon return to Hamilton from New Hampshire. WPG2 Plugin Not Validated * My sister, Nicole, and her boyfriend, Mark, nap in the hammock at Kingswood Lake.
I love you all, and I miss [...]