Let’s see, what am I forgetting? Need to make sure we write down everything we’re going to need for this trip…

2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sugar (slightly less)

Butter 11×15 pan.

Heat oven to 400-425 F.

Beat eggs. Add milk. Beat in dry ingredients. Beat well. Pour into pan. Bake 15-20 minutes.

Serve with lingonberry butter and powdered sugar.

Lingonberry butter: 3 parts lingonberry jam to 1 part butter.

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Sadie (like many 4-week-olds) enjoys milk. So far, she’s only drank milk from one source, and that seems to work for her. She’s got a system.

So, last night, I’m trying to get her to drink the exact same milk, only from a bottle. She’s a touch resistant to the idea. So I come out with, “Come on sweetie, it’s all the same milk. You need to be platform-agnostic.”

The little WTF look on her face was priceless.

I may be reading too much marketing copy during the day.

Yahoo Answers launched this week, bearing a remarkable resemblance to Abuzz. Through the magic of the Wayback Machine, take a look at Abuzz’s early 2001 homepage, and its What’s Hot page.

Yahoo’s tagline? Ask. Answer. Discover.

Abuzz’s tagline? Ask. Answer. Discuss.

This week on Survivor, Cindy won a car in the competition over the other four players. The producers then gave her a choice: keep the car or give the other four people cars of their own.

A. (my fabulous wife, the tax lawyer) looked at me over the baby and said, “You know, if Cindy gives the cars away, that’ll have pretty serious gift tax consequences.”

I replied, “Interesting. We’re likely the only couple in America having this conversation right now.”

We’re hiring a designer. Could it be you? Here’s the job description:

Ever want to transform a Web 1.0 company that makes money into a Web 2.0 company that makes money? Ever want to help people find jobs? Wish you could improve this very site? Here’s the opportunity. Boston.com is redesigning its BostonWorks site, and we need an outstanding interactive designer to help us dominate the Boston recruitment marketplace.

Strange things are afoot in the recruitment space. Monster.com is strong; Yahoo HotJobs keeps getting better; CareerBuilder does great things with its guided search; vertical search engines like SimplyHired and corporate-cousin Indeed are shaking up the industry business model. Many are experimenting with different ways of connecting job-seekers to employers, but no one has really nailed it yet. Chaos reigns.

But, in chaos lies opportunity, and Boston.com is well-placed to stake its claim as the powerhouse in the market. We have the most job listings in Boston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom and the ability to localize and customize in a way our friendly national competitors can’t touch.

We need someone who can think through an interactive design that will win, someone who can design a site so useful that job-seekers love it, employers will give us lots of money to be on it, a site that’s just so damn good it’ll shoot onto del.icio.us/popular when it launches.

We have a strong position to build from. We have the rest of the team on board. You are the final piece.

So, who are you?

You love the web and its endless possibilities. You play around with websites for fun. You’ve likely already done your own Google Maps hack, just to see what it could do. You have your own domain to show off your work. You don’t use a Hotmail address.

You like the idea of being able to help tens of millions of monthly visitors, help regular folks trying to improve their lives.

You were writing XHTML before it was all the rage. You know the ins and outs of box-model hacks. You curse IE, but make it work.

You have a strong presentation and design skills as well as familiarity with web usability. You know your way around Photoshop and know how to translate your designs to the web. You have an eye for design and a respect for the information you are trying to communicate. You can wrangle a roomful of opinions into a thoughtful, accessible and dazzling design. When you spill your coffee, your first thought is “command Z.”

You can spell. You write emails in full sentences with proper capitalization.

You believe in the power of the media (Boston.com, The Boston Globe, The New York Times) to improve our community.

You believe the Standells when they sing “Boston, you’re my home.”

You believe in doing right by the job-seeker.

You know there’s more than one way to do it.

So, what’s the job?

You’ll start by designing the BostonWorks.com website. The building blocks are all here, scattered on the living-room rug. You get to put the design the building and help put the blocks together. You’ll handle the visual design (with help from the rest of the design department) and plan the interactive design (with help from our developers and product people). You’ll get your hands dirty (in a good way).

After launch, you’ll keep working on BostonWorks, but we’ll also find you more worlds to conquer. Recruitment is only one of our many sections.

So, is this right for you?

Can you design an application that does right by the job-seekers and the employers? Can you design in a way that accentuates our unique strengths and differentiates us in the marketplace?

Can you do it in a collaborative atmosphere?

If you’re really interested, we’d love a thoughtful letter telling us why. Please write us a note, along with your resume and (most importantly) links to interesting things you’ve done. We run a job board, so believe us when we say we can smell boilerplate a mile away — it’s worth a few minutes to think it through

Wrapped up in one of those cute towel/sleeper combinations.

Making Sustainability Sexy
Marketers take a crack at positioning the concept of sustainability, a concept desperately in need of some pithy talking points.

Automatically setting prototypes in Tinderbox
I evangelize Tinderbox every couple of months or so, but this another powerful feature I just found out about that saves me a few minutes every day. Very exciting.

Stocking Stuffer: The Eyelighter
The folks who make Tinderbox also have some really neat gizmos on their site. I bought the eyelighter for A. a few weeks before the baby arrived so that she could easily navigate the house in the dark. It’s really useful.

Saving Serendipity
We spent a lot of time on this at Abuzz. How do give people precisely what they’re looking for while still exposing them to stuff they never even knew they wanted. This is an important read to anyone working in the media or on the web.

Conspicuous Construction
The gilded age returns to Boston.

It starts with a little squeak, then a grunt. The bassinet shakes from her thrashing.

Uh oh, the meltdown is coming. I can see the little clock in my head ticking down: 24 seconds until screaming…23…22…21.

Run over. Is it food? Diaper? Random fussiness? Must think quickly…10…9…8.

Ok, pick her up — support the head!…5…4.

Woo Hoo! Meltdown averted.

Until next time.

The cats knew something was coming.

Patch and Libby have been the light of their Mommy’s eyes for well over a decade. They are set in their ways. They barely tolerate me. Barely.

Their little lives have been upset a few times in the past couple years, with my arrival, two moves and all sort of other disruptions.

Over the past few months, Mommy’s lap has disappeared and all sorts of new stuff made its way into the home. Then, Mommy disappeared for five days.

I (and I still resist calling myself “Daddy” in relation to the cats) still came home every night, but it wasn’t the same. They started acting weird, hiding in closets, crying continuously. You can see Patch here, sitting inside the nightstand, looking mighty unhappy.

On the morning of the third day, I rolled out of bed and found both of them sitting in front of the bedroom door staring at me. I shudder to think how long they had been waiting.

Four days in, I brought Sadie’s little hat home for them to smell. I then left it on the couch so they would know that this smell was part of the family. This worked really well. They know that she’s an “approved” smell, and they don’t attack her.

After two weeks, they tolerate the baby, mostly by ignoring her. They don’t like some of the high-pitched sounds coming from the screamy baby, though.

I’ve changed the site banner, the image that shows up at the top of each of the weblog pages. For those of you reading in a newsreader, you’ll need to click through to the site to see it. You may have to refresh a time or two.

I’ve gotten a couple of notes asking for more pictures of our little girl. Happy to oblige