Happy Halloween
The heads ended up shrinking to about 1.5 inches tall with a slightly pinkish tint.
The results of our efforts at pumpkin carving this year.
The Contest
Stephen and I spent this last week at the Objectivist Conference ( OCON ) in Boston. We started out the week staying in town, but finished it off commuting. As we stayed at the Seaport Hotel at the beginning of the week when we knew almost no one, we didn’t take advantage of the social atmosphere, but were happily sequestered in our room. After getting to know a few people, we dined, drank, and were generally merry with those few. Through the classes, general sessions, and referenced symposiums (in the ancient Greek sense), I left with a calmer sense of purpose, renewed motivation, and a smoldering desire to make the world a better place. By firmly placing the moral foundation under the tremendous achievements of the Founding Fathers first in my own mind, I then hope to help do so in the minds of others who have chosen the fundamental alternative to live, turning that smolder into a bonfire. One of the most immediately motivating things I learned at OCON this week regards the light tha
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I'm sitting at work right now in a Spiderman t-shirt, because my son (2.5 yrs) has told me in no uncertain terms that because he will be the "black Spiderman" (the evil one from Spiderman III, which he has never seen), I must be the "red Spiderman."
The t-shirt was my compromise. Ahh... what we do for the little ones.
You know the hand pumpkin is Stephen's. He has quite a collection of awesome pumpkins behind him. This is not his finest work - we were in a hurry.
Have fun with little ones tonight!