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Knight Reunion Video

Hey Knighties, here's a little visual remembrance of our time together....kisses,



doug and kale

Hi you all,

Just wondering if this site is still active. Does anyone visit? Now that we have broadband in Bhutan- i thought we shd get on the cyberway ore often.

siok sian

Alaskans in Our House

Hello Friends!
We were thrilled to have Kathleen and Peter break their journey from Europe with us on Friday (on their way back to Alaska). We hung out, talked about their travels and had dinner together before they had to rest up for an early flight home.
What a treat to see our fellow Fellows from our corner of the world!

A couple of Alaska pix

Hi Knights. I had a great call from Doug and Kale, and the next day
one from Chris, and then the email to the Knight Blog from Patricia,
and I realized how much I was missing you all. (Not to mention the
Andrew Mwenda arrest, and Imtiaz heading to Yale. And Ruichun writing
from China about the Olympics protests.) I have not been keeping up.

So here are a few photos from the late April snowfall we had, 18
inches overnight, and then the mud that followed, plus a moose
picture just for Justine (all my moose pics are dedicated to Justine
because she never saw one while she was here). A picture of my tiny,
optimistic greenhouse, assuming temperatures will one day be warm
enough to use it.

Hi to Karl, miss you, are you coming back to do any more corruption
stories in Alaska? There is more, as you might guess.

Well, happy mother's day to all the moms out there in Knight land. I
hope you all are well..../ Kathleen (Pete says hi, he is in NYC
visiting his 93 year old Dad. He and Maeve did a walking tour of
Greenwich Village that included stops at 15 places to eat....they
said it was fabulous.)

Good karma to you all.../k

Some moose in Alaska

Moose dining on my neighbor Kim's bushes in her front yard. Hi all!
We are still waiting for the snow to melt, but it's light for hours
and hours now. Quick message just to say hi!/ Kathleen & Peter

New way to post

OK knights, I was inspired by Kathleen's new post to the blog to add another feature. Now you can email a post directly to this address, dougkimster.knights07@blogger.com, and it will post your email directly to the blog. The subject line will appear as the headline. You can e-mail text, a picture, even video, and it will show up on the blog.
If your phone is capable of sending photos, you can post a picture straight from your phone, by e-mailing it or sending it through MMS (texting with photo) to the address.
So if you're dodging yaks in Bhutan, say, and your cellphone is getting coverage, you can post a photo to the blog, no computer needed.
Try it. It's fun.
(Note, it can't handle posts bigger than 10 MB)

Baby news: Phoebe is five months old now, very healthy, and when I say healthy, I mean this is a big kid. Almost 17 pounds. Mom feeds her good stuff. I have another blog of kim family pictures, all posted from our phones, kimuniverse.blogspot.com.

From Alaska, a short video

Hi friends. Missing you all. I feel like the spinning dervish you see on your screen while you wait for a program to open... I'm working, working, working. Still a very amateur video person, but here's one that might make you laugh, and it does capture the mid-winter cabin fever of Alaska.
We have a winter festival that was nearly dead. This year, they let folks run with the reindeer right down the middle of the street. 500 women, and then 500- men. They each paid $20 to do it.
Here's a glimpse...

Lil' Kims update

Hello Friends!
We've hit a milestone here in Seattle: Phoebe is two months old. I've been minding the homefront, Emma is learning her p's and q's (she 's taken to reading out signs while we're driving. Example: "Mommy, what does 'P-O-R-N' spell?" and Phoebe's favorite activities are eating, staying up late into the night and peeing while on the changing table. Doug's working hard at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/index.html, cooking amazing meals and getting peed on while changing Phoebe at the changing table. Life is good.
Here are a few more pictures for you to enjoy. I hope you're not getting too overwhelmed by the holidays. Stay sane, stay safe.
Hugs,
The Kims

Mystery guest in Alaska

Whose eyeball IS that?
It's Karl Vick's. The Alaska corruption trials lured him north. See the FBI surveillance videos yourself, as seedy as can be, taken in Room 604 of the Baranof Hotel in Juneau, the state capitol. An oil guy bribing state legislators to hold down state taxes on oil companies.
But that's not the news. The news is, Karl Vick is visiting us. The first night, we met at Humpy's, a divey kinda place with decent food, cold beer. Another night, we managed to feed him at home, with Pete's marinara sauce. He's off to Iliamna to check out the Pebble Mine controversy. We hope to see him again before he heads south to sunnier, and warmer, climes. He's lookin' good, fellow Knights. And writing up a couple of good stories out of the far North. We sat around our kitchen table, dialing phone numbers to Knights, but only succeeded in leaving a phone message or two. Wishing you all well!/ Pete, Kathleen, and for a brief time, Karl

PS: Here's a better picture of us.

A name for Lentil

OK, we have a name. Actually, lots of names. Officially, our girl is Phoebe Keahi Ka-Young Kim. Unofficially, she has several more names. Her full Hawaiian name is Keahi Lanakila o Keola Mau Loa, which means the fire that will live on forever. And she also has a Bhutanese name, Dechhen, which according to the Bhutanese elder in our midst, means supreme bliss. As with Emma, these names have been given to us by respected elders, including Kale's mother, aunt, my parents, and of course, our friends in Bhutan. We picked Phoebe, although Emma voted against it. But when we mentioned it to the baby when she was still in Kale's belly, she kicked rather vigorously, so we figured that was the deciding vote. At home, we will probably just continue to call her Lentil.

There are more pictures on the flickr website.

User name = knightfellows2007, password stanford2007

International friends, if you have trouble getting to flickr, e-mail me and I'll send them to you individually if you'd like to see them. Again, thanks for your good wishes, which have poured in from all across the globe. It feels wonderful to know that our new baby has admirers in so many places.

More Lentil

thanks everyone for the kind messages...here are more photos....

Lentil meets the world

Hello dear Knights, we have some good news. Lentil is a girl! She was born on Oct. 2, 9:22 p.m. 6 lbs, 11 ounces. Kale is doing very well, she had a very short labor, and is now getting some well deserved rest. Lentil is sleeping on my chest as I write this, we just got home from the hospital tonight. We are all very happy (and tired), Emma is thrilled with her new baby sister. We miss you all and are thinking of our extended Knight family. Personally, I am very, very thankful that everyone is safe and healthy. We still don't know what we're naming this baby, but we should figure that out pretty soon. I will post more pictures soon...

Wired slams Rheingold

I was thumbing through my Wired Magazine this week when I saw a very funny piece on creating a sellable name for your next book.

At the very bottom, the writer totally slams Howard Rheingold. Some of you should remember Howard, since many of us took one of his classes (William took two of his classes).

If you're unsure of your premise, run it by Howard Rheingold. If it's any good, he'll claim to have been thinking the same thing since the 1980s.

Wow, that was harsh. Sounds like this author has had some dealings with the master in paint-drippy shoes.

check this out

Hey gang, we just published a series that you might find interesting. It's about the Gates Foundation's fight against malaria, and it's got a great deal of interactive storytelling devices. Note: I had absolutely nothing to do with this project. But I think it does a lot of interesting things to illustrate the problem and the solutions underway. I also hope we can use this blog to share things that we think are cool, either our own work or stuff we discover.

click here

McBride in Bhutan

McBride in Bhutan

Not Out Yet

Kevin wagered that Lentil would arrive on September 20th. Well, I'm glad the Chron has been treating you well buddy, because unfortunately this gamble didn't pay off. We are still one unit, Lentil and myself, moving slow and low, waddling around the house trying to make sure our check lists are in order.
Our due date is October 13, and although I thought Lentil would want to be more of a back-to-school baby than a Halloween baby, it is nice to have some extra time to adjust to the idea of the four of us--while I sit in my La-Z-Boy eating Ben & Jerry's Brownie Batter.

Here's what our September looks like

One of the artists in Scott's department is working on a full-page graphic on sand castles, so she invited the whole gang to the beach for some "research".

From Alaska

The snow is here. Nope, that white expanse in the sky is not a cloud. It's
"termination dust," as we call it. The very first snow.

These aren't dramatic photos unless you live here. We know what's coming, despite the benign beginnings. That white line will just keep creeping down the mountain until it's all over your yard and your car. September 15, it is legal to put on your studded snow tires. No one does it until about October 15, when the smell of real snow is in the air. Or better yet, wait until the first big snow fall and one unnerving slip 'n' slide to work. That night, in the cold and dark, you will put on your studded snows.

This entry is absolutely just an excuse to say hello to all you 2007 Knights.