1st Haircut

If you're not at the hospital having more kids, you might as well do what you can to make the one you've got look half-way decent. Zeke was overdue for a haircut. We figured he couldn't look any cuter. We figured wrong. And how 'bout Karine? Wow.

Thanks for the sweet cut Family Fun Cutz!

awesome hair?

Do u think is this a 'sweet cut'?
Would u like ur child 2 have this cut?
R we 'hipster parents' 4 doing this 2 r child?

Zeke is ready

Awesome Hair -- Awesome Brain: Michel Foucault

Sometimes hair can be awesome in its absence. Compare the two pictures of French intellectual giant Michel Foucault below. Do I even have to ask which hairstyle is more awesome? And his brain? This guy was really ridiculously smart. He was like the Chuck Norris of thought. His work systematically proves that no one really has a clue what is really going on. He makes Malcom Gladwell sound like a confused child. Foucault actually knocked someone unconscious once by thinking something at him.

Foucault has been one of my number one guys for a long time. His life and work are absolutely facinating. I recommend Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison as his most accessible work. His History of Sexuality is a little more difficult. But it does explain fairly clearly exactly why everything you think you know about sex is wrong. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, which explains absoluetly everything, reads like backwards upside-down Chinesse toaster blueprints. I do not recommend it because I have no idea what he is talking about.

Do not confuse Michel Foucualt with this man. This is French soccar star Zinedine Zidane. He knocked a man unconscious during the 2006 World Cup Final by ramming him in the chest with his forehead. Zinadine Zidane is also awesome.

Awesome Hair -- Awesome Brain: Malcolm Gladwell

This guy is not a genius. But he does write interesting books. His books have made millions of people feel smarter. I recommend them. But I have come to the conclusion after reading all of his books, that a lot of what he writes about is sort of repackaged, slickly marketed common sense. Common sense fortified with science. Blink is my favorite. The Tipping Point is okay and Outliers, his newest, is sort of a dud.

Malcolm Gladwell's brain is less awesome than the brains of Kurt Vonnegut, Geddy Lee, Stephen Pinker, and Tim Burners-Lee. But his hair is undeniably awesome.

You can hire Mr. Gladwell to come and perform at your kid's birthday party or whatever. He costs about $40,000.00. No doubt the kids will learn a lot.

Do not confuse Mr. Gladwell with this man.

This man is Cedric Bixler-Zavala. And he is a genius. He wrote Son et Lumiere + Inertiatic esp.

Awesome Hair -- Awesome Brain: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut deserves recognition for his peerless contributions to contemporary English literature. He wrote science-fiction books for everyone, not just book worms and math nerds. Vonnegut saw no reason why a construction worker or bus driver wouldn't want to read a book about another planet. Also, he had extremely enthusiastic hair and a quietly assertive mustache.

I learned a valuable lesson about suffering from Billy Pilgrim in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. He bounces from moment to moment randomly: one moment he's a thirty-five year old man, the next he is a baby. This curious circumstance allows him to experience his life as an unbound accumulation of experiences, rather than a linear narrative.

In a linear narrative, like a book, the end always seems like the most important thing. But its not. That the book exists at all is the most important thing. The same is true in life. Suffering is certainly a part of our experience, but it does not define our experience. Even if it occurs at the very end. The present moment always seems like the most important, but that is only because we are stuck in time. The most important moment in life is all of them.

That's what Billy Pilgrim taught me while living in a zoo on planet Trafalmadore.

Thanks Kurt!

Awesome Hair -- Awesome Brain: Geddy Lee

Geddy Lee is a founding member of Rush. Rush's brand of complex, science-fiction themed heavy metal has been shaping great minds since 1968. Rush is what future software-engineers, architects, and mathematicians listened to while they played Dungeons & Dragons in their parent's basements in the 1970's. Lee's hair -- pictured below in a powerful mullet configuration -- speaks for itself.

The largest audience to ever attend a Rush concert was 60,000 in São Paulo, Brazil. People in South and Central America sure love heavy metal.

Awesome Brain -- Awesome Hair: Stephen Pinker

Here is a picture of Stephen Pinker with a model of the human brain. Pinker is an easy choice for Awesome Brain -- Awesome Hair. He's an evolutionary psychologist who knows more about brain function and language acquisition than just about anyone on the planet. And he wins the Harvard Faculty Hair Competition almost every year. If you want to know how the mind works, you might want to read Pinker's book, How the Mind Works.

Mr. Pinker is also Canadian.

Awesome Brain -- Awesome Hair: Tim Berners-Lee

This is a picture of Tim Berners-Lee. His most famous invention is the Internet. He has a tremendous brain and a really awesome haircut. After Tim and his team of supernerds at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland invented the Internet in 1990, they couldn't decide what to do with it. They tried to sell it, but no one wanted to buy it. That's why the Internet is free.

I just wanted to give a shout out to TBL and his hair. This guy has done a lot for the world, and most people have never even heard of him. Thanks Tim, for having nice hair, and being really smart.