Becky and I celebrated Valentine’s Day last night by babysitting for some old clients of hers. Not to worry, of course, we have already got next weekend set aside as a belated Valentine’s gift. We are going to see Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiere Tan Dun’s work, The Map. They will also be performing some works by Cage, Britten, and Shostakovich. On Saturday we will be attending some of the events surrounding this premiere. And we will be staying for the weekend at the Westin Copley Place, right in the heart of downtown Boston.

As for this weekend… today Becky’s at work for the morning, and has another babysitting gig in the evening. I’m heading down to Westwood, MA for the Cambridge SoundWorks Warehouse Sale. If they have some reasonable deals, we may end up with a new sound system… if not, no big loss.

Hello all! Welcome to the Valentine’s Day Edition of World Wide Wood!

I would like to wish a happy Valentine’s Day to my wonderful wife Rebecca. We have been together for two years and five months, and we have been married for just under four of those months. Every minute continues to be better than the one before, and I can’t think of any more wonderful person to spend my life with. What a wonderful deal, to spend the rest of one’s life with one’s best friend.

To My Becky, With Love.

I’ve finished my first movie using iMovie 3. It was an excruciating task, what with iMovie 3’s intrinsic slowness, and the additional slowness by my computer’s (relatively) slow processor. But it’s done! I stitched together photos of all the folks in our bridal party, using the “Ken Burns” effect, added a soundtrack (which any of our reception guests should recognize), and added some subtitles and transitions.

You can see the finished product here:

The Bridal Party

It’s in Apple QuickTime format, so make sure you have that installed before you try it. Also, the file is around 9.3 megabytes in size, so if you are on a modem-speed connection, it may take a little while to download it.

Enjoy!