It’s very sweet that Sadie wants to emulate me, but I’m not sure I’m on board with her taking up residence on the couch. That’s my spot.

Lisa Williams, best known for her H2oTown weblog covering Watertown, just won a $220,000 grant from the Knight Foundation for her work on Placeblogger. This is great for Lisa; she’s been doing incredible work around citizen journalism and I’m happy to see her recognized.

Passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, co-workers and strangers
Very funny pictures of passive-aggressive notes. My general rule of “never send bad news by email” goes double for little pieces of paper.

Tool Snob
Jay’s new site, detailing the latest and greatest in the toolshed. I have a feeling my $19.95 Home Depot power drill will not make the cut.

The right ride
Interactive maps showing safe bike rides in and around Boston. Play around with clicking on the pushpins to get hints about what you need to look out for. The Central Square notes are all spot-on.

Natick Mall beating
Egads.

Inside the monkeysphere
Why we are how we are. And why you yelled at that guy on the Mass Pike this morning.

7 reasons the 21st century is making you miserable
More from the writer of the monkeysphere. Very interesting stuff.

How to deal with Internet trolls
Cory Doctorow outlines some techniques for dealing with bad characters in your online community.

The semantic web is doomed
I have similar frustrations. I don’t state them quite this colorfully, though.

Confessions of an A-list blogger
Steve Pavlina talks about life as a prominent blogger.

Advice to drug seekers from an ER doctor
To all those who make up symptoms to try to score some painkillers: the doctors are actually on to you.

Corporate ipsum
When we’re designing webpages, we often put in “lorem ipsum” text as placeholder for real thinking. In the corporate world, we often insert empty jargon into emails as placeholder for real thinking. This little widget helps.

Tom Peters on the utterly predictable Daimler/Chrysler divorce
“So why oh why oh why oh why do these ‘leading lights of management’ do this [stuff] over and over and over and over?”

Sadie is now a year and a half old, and her pediatrician tells us she’s doing great. I could have told you that, but it’s fun to have a second opinion.

She’s really talking now, in sentences of two and sometimes three words. “No, Daddy” is one of her favorites, as is, “Milk, please.” She understands everything we say, so I need to clean up my language a little bit.

She’s very helpful, wanting to include herself in whatever we’re doing. So, we put her to dusting.

I tried to get her to do my taxes, but she was having none of that.

She’s getting better at running around. She jumps off the bottom step. She can climb onto the couch all by herself. She’s trying to skip, but it’s not quite there yet. She loves being outside, and her boundless energy is well-used running around the backyard.

She also loves flowers, so we took her out to the plant store, and got her a flower of her very own.

She’s still a pretty good eater, though she’s getting more finicky. She is very subtle when she decides that she doesn’t like what I cooked her for dinner.

I’ll usually win her over, though, and then she’s much happier.

Sadie has taken to demanding to see pictures of herself on the computer. It’s good to know that she does not lack for vanity. If nothing else, it has made me a little more picky about which photos I put up here; knowing you’ll need to see the collection hundreds of times is a good incentive to edit. I hope everyone likes this one.

The Red Sox showed again why this is a special season, erasing a five-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Orioles. This win was pure hustle. I love rooting for a team that will fight to the very end.

Don’t get taken
Clay auto dealerships have been running ads (disclosure: including in the Globe and on Boston.com) touting a site where they share all the “secrets” of car dealerships, reminding me a little of the old Saturn flat-price ads. I think this is a smart strategy, zagging against the common practices of a lowly-regarded industry. I will be interested to see if their “high-road” strategy makes them more money.

Apocrypha panned
Wow, rarely have I seen a Globe restaurant review this critical.

How to program 30-second skip for Comcast DVR
Super-handy. I just programmed my remote, and life is so much better now.

Lostcasts
A very good weekly Lost podcast.

We went to Landry’s yesterday to get a new bike for A. Sadie will have her own little seat on the back, so she needs her own helmet.

She likes pink, to match her cardigan.

I don’t want to sound like a Boston.com shill, but this is neat. Our team put together a special section called Pop-Ed, in which local musician Jake Brennan reads the news each morning, then writes a song about it and performs it that day. It plays on Boston.com and WBOS that night.

I had absolutely nothing to do with this, but it is pretty frickin’ fun. Check out the first one, about our friend Roger signing with the Yankees. Lyrics.

If he can’t carry his bags how’s he gonna carry their season?

Holliston Police Station on track
It’s good to see that the new police station is still on schedule. The police are moving into the old Middle School Flagg building; I’m happy to know that my fifth-grade language arts classroom is not longer just metaphorically a jail cell.

33 ways to improve productivity
Interesting nuggets. I’m a bit of a productivity and GTD geek, so I try to do follow quite a few of these strategies. It doesn’t help put more hours in the day, but it helps get more of the important things done.

The Harry-est towns in America
Once upon a time, I worked briefly on community at Amazon, helping launch the PlanetAll-derived Purchase Circles. Here’s another application of that concept: which towns are buying the most Harry Potter books? Sadly, Holliston did not make the list.

BostonWorks is no more
Our partnership with Monster launched today. Congratulations to everyone involved, though I don’t envy Alan for having to port my old browse by commute code. Sometimes things you wrote five years ago linger on far longer then you expect them to.