Ryan Jacobs

Last week, I came home and noticed a really loud clicking noise coming from my MacBook. That’s never a good sound, particularly when you aren’t actively using it. The hard drive was toast.
While I wasn’t completely thrilled, I figured I would at least find out how well my backup strategy worked.  I use Time Machine [...]

I had a wonderful Father’s day thanks to Rebecca and Katherine.  Katherine stirred from her sleep this afternoon and allowed me to rock her to sleep. She hasn’t let me be the comforter in quite a while so this was nice. There isn’t anything that can compare to looking down at your child while they [...]

This is a scanned photo of my brother David (left) and myself (right) in either my parents’ or grandparents’ vehicles.  I don’t have the exact date, but I am going to guess it was around 1977.  Apart from the lack of car seats and what was probably just lap belts with maybe a booster seat [...]

One of the great joys I have experienced as a new father is interacting with my daughter and getting her to smile and laugh.  I am thrilled to have captured this picture of Katherine while she was in her rocker and I was lucky enough to have the right lens on my camera for the [...]

Our cats Jacob and Elvis received an early Christmas gift from their Nagymama and Nagypapa in California. It is a collapsible play cube. In this picture is Elvis, who immediately jumped in.

The following represent my favorite iPhone apps from the past year.  The apps listed aren’t necessarily ones I use daily, but are more representative of those that I think leverage the platform well and in interesting ways.
And I only list 8.  Sure I could have found the obligatory 10, but I only wanted to list [...]

Rebecca had her detailed ultrasound last week at the 20 week mark of pregnancy. We were able to see an incredible amount of detail including the heart, legs, cerebellum, feet, ribs, stomach and much more. Also, we were able to find out our baby will be a girl and are thrilled.
We have decided to name [...]

While in the Petoskey area, we got a tip to check out the Oden State Fish Hatchery.
This old railcar is now used to give some information about the hatchery. Back in the day, the trains used to be used to transport the fish from the hatchery to various lakes and streams.
Also, there are free guided [...]

Rebecca and I returned  from roughly a week in northern Michigan. We rented a cottage on Crooked Lake near Petoskey and had access to a fire pit, canoes and swimming if we wanted. An advantage to staying just a bit outside of Petoskey apart from having more reasonable rent was that it was very quiet [...]

Some folks know this, some don’t, but Rebecca and I are expecting our first child in December of this year.  I too have seen many of these sonograms and quite frankly, I know they may not look like much, but it is true — when it is yours it means everything.
The picture above was taken [...]