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My Latest Project (or Freeman 2.0)

The heart rate was 154BPM. I was singing Flight of the Bumble Bee along with the ultrasound speaker.

We're using the latest in genetic algorithms and self-modifying iterative code on this new project. Truthfully, the approach is beyond me, so I'm strictly oversight and logistics now that the program is seeded. The specifications aren't complete yet, but expected ship date is 24 Feb 2009.

I'm sure Lisa will never let me, but I'm partial to the following names: Nicholas Stuart or Natalie Sawyer.

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1 - Congratulations!
You are embarking on the greatest project and adventure of them all!
Will you stop smoking?
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stw

Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 02:03:42 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

2 - WOOT! Congratulations to you both.

-Devin.

Posted by Devin Olson At 02:03:43 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

3 - Congrats man!

While I did not have any hand in this, I feel like I was involved in your learning about it. For everyone else ... Nathan and I were driving from Westford at the XPages Training last month to Boston, trying to get him on a flight home. The GPS sucked and we made every wrong turn possible. In the middle of all this, Lisa called Nathan and told him. Man, after that, we did everything we could so he made his flight! :)

Posted by John Head At 02:06:42 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

4 - Congrats Nathan !!!

Posted by Ranjit At 02:07:51 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

5 - @3 - LOL. Yeah, that was nerve wracking. But it would have sucked to not be able to get home to Lisa on the day I found out!

No such risks shall be taken in the month of Feb. kthx. :)

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 02:08:36 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

6 - As I've already told you - many congrats to you and Lisa!!!

Posted by Chris Whisonant At 02:17:09 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

7 - CONGRATS! You left yourself a small buffer to get home and recover from Lotusphere in time to welcome the new addition.

Posted by Mitch Cohen At 02:18:38 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

8 - Simply wonderful, congratulations!

Posted by Yancy Lent At 02:27:41 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

9 - Congratulations!

And nicely appropriate use of yellow Emoticon

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 02:31:16 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

10 - CONGRATS!!! The NTF is replicating! Emoticon

Please give Lisa my hugest congrats first, and my email address second. Emoticon

Posted by Jess Stratton At 02:34:25 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

11 - Congrats on the replica stub. I think I'll enter "create relpica from two different source databases" in IdeaJam.

Posted by Dan Sickles At 02:34:28 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

12 - One more thing..I hope you used the non-Lamarckian hair coloring.

Posted by Dan Sickles At 02:37:33 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

13 - I predict that this child will be born with bright yellow hair!
Congratulations to both of you...

Posted by Mary Beth Raven At 02:39:40 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

14 - Congratulations to you and Lisa! But quite honestly, with everything else you do, how did you find the time? Emoticon

Posted by Jack Ratcliff At 02:39:46 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

15 - @14 - He must have started using eProductivity for Notes. Or was that eREProductivity?

Posted by Dan Sickles At 02:47:39 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

16 - @14 - Ha! The kickoff meeting only took 5 minutes! Emoticon

@10 - I can't believe I didn't think to make a replication joke myself.

To all, we really are thinking of painting the nursery yellow. And you can certainly expect lots of baby pictures in yellow clothing.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 02:51:05 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

17 - Congratulations!

The template is now ready for production Emoticon

But I also think you might want to add a "Beta" after "Freeman 2.0" because there will be many "changes" in the lifespan of this particular product.

Posted by Mike Smelser At 02:51:49 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

18 - @17, yes, he'll have to perform special IsDirty and IsClean checks frequently to see if it's been changed. Emoticon

Posted by Jess Stratton At 03:00:24 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

19 - Congratulations to both Lisa and you!

Posted by Karl-Henry Martinsson At 03:15:28 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

20 - Congratulations, sir! That's awesome.

Posted by Rob McDonagh At 03:16:00 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

21 - But did you find the magic button? Emoticon

Posted by Charles Robinson At 03:19:24 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

22 - Congrats and welcome to the club...your life will never be the same and you will be so happy that it won't!

Posted by Andy Broyles At 03:22:03 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

23 - By the way, we'll have to get you Ollie's IBM bib: { Link } Emoticon

Posted by Chris Whisonant At 03:26:08 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

24 - Congrats Nathan Emoticon

Posted by Matt White At 03:28:27 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

25 - Congratulations to you and Lisa! Your lives will never be the same again (and I mean that in a good way). And should you (or she) need a little help with picking a name, here's something that may help: { Link }

Posted by Adam Gartenberg At 03:32:31 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

26 - Oh Nathan and Lisa, CONGRATS!!!

Posted by Betsy At 03:35:07 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

27 - Survival of the fittest! Good to know Darwin cuts both ways Congrats man! Emoticon

Posted by Bill Wheaton At 03:37:55 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

28 - Congrats! The little NSF's are lot's of fun, but I'll be damned if I can figure out the API in order to get them to do what I want. Emoticon

Posted by Corey Davis At 03:49:11 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

29 - Cool ! Another one to expand our community! Congrats NTF.

Posted by Theo Heselmans At 03:49:47 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

30 - Mazel Tov! That's wonderful news.

So, you thought you were busy now? :)

Posted by Brian Miller At 04:00:26 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

31 - hahahahaha!! congrats sir!!!!!!!

Posted by John Vaughan At 04:08:56 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

32 - Congrats - great news! Freebaby!

Posted by Rob Novak At 04:29:41 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

33 - @32 - Uhhhh... I'm sure the baby will be quite expensive. Emoticon

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 04:32:09 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

34 - Oh this is gonna be good Emoticon

. Congrats man. May be cuttin' it close for Lotusphere though, so you may need to spend extra for a robust backup solution. I would suggest some variation of the "fly mother-in-law out to keep momma-to-be company at the full-service spa resort for several days" solution.

Posted by Kevin Pettitt At 04:33:37 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

35 - Man, you guys have this all wrong! It can't be a replica. It's obviously a New Database, inheriting its design from the "NTF" NTF Emoticon

Oh, and some added design docs inheriting specifically from the "Lisa" template, of course. Congratulations!

Posted by Erik Brooks At 04:34:34 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

36 - @33 you got that right Emoticon

Hearty congratulations to both you and Lisa, splendid news!

Posted by Ben Poole At 04:47:44 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

37 - Having just been through it, I can attest to the amount of fun involved. Emoticon

Check out namenerds.com. A friend of mine runs it and it's pretty unique amongst sites in that it condenses the name frequency lists combining like names (Kate, Katherine, Catherine, etc).
It's also one of the two concepts I was going to try to do a XPages driven facebook app for. Emoticon

Posted by Jo Grant At 05:00:00 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

38 - Congratulations! If Nicholas Stuart is vetoed, how about Oliver Daniel?

Of course, there's always the gender-neutral Morgan. Emoticon

Posted by Tim Tripcony At 05:03:11 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

39 - @34 - Fortunately, both mother's live within easy distance of Lotusphere, mine in Tallahassee, hers in Sarasota. Her brother and his wife live in Orlando as well.

We're going to see how she feels in January about coming to 'sphere. There is quite a nice spa at the Dolphin, but it's ridiculously expensive.

@38 & 35 - Ah... somebody finally got the joke!

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 05:15:50 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

40 - Congrats, my friend. Life will take a turn for the hectic that you couldn't have imagined possible. And I mean that in the best possible way.

Posted by Mike Lazar At 05:28:13 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

41 - LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh

Posted by Dovid At 06:17:21 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

42 - (I write that as I play gleefully with gross^6, and no, that's not a typo for *, noise levels aren't linear... you'll find out when you catch up LOL bwaaaahahahahahah *snark* heh heh oops there I go again)

Posted by Dovid At 06:23:24 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

43 - Congratulations! Of course, if I had to pick a name, it would be Gordon. Emoticon

Posted by Greg Walrath At 06:32:02 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

44 - Yikes.

Welcome to responsibility, no sleep, no money and of course, crap music in your house for the next 18 years.. Emoticon

(My daughter had 'Barbie Girl' playing on rewind for THREE years).

Congratulations!

---* Bill "Finally got my kid to College" Buchan

Posted by Mild Bill At 06:40:46 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

45 - Congratulations to all Freemans involved!

Posted by Vitor Pereira At 07:36:52 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

46 - @43 - AH! An excellent choice!

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 08:05:29 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

47 - Congratulations (to you both). @1 is right - it's the best adventure. My advice - get as much sleep as you can now and enjoy waking up when you want to Emoticon

Posted by Tony Palmer At 08:52:17 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

48 - Congratulations!!

Posted by Andy Donaldson At 09:08:18 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

49 - Congratulations! Wishing all the best for your new 'project' and the 'Framework' for your application!

Posted by Ray Bilyk At 09:23:39 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

50 - How did your wife manage to swallow an Ethernet hub? And why are all the lights lit?

Posted by Turtle At 09:42:57 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

51 - Baby names:

If it's a girl, Gidget Moe
If it's a boy, Lando Calrissian

Posted by Turtle At 09:44:07 PM On 07/10/2008 | - Website - |

52 - @51 - Is Turtle really allowed to do this?

Posted by Dovid At 02:50:30 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

53 - Congratulations to you and Lisa. As many have said, your lives will changes in wonderful ways you just can't anticipate. Oh and don't expect to sleep well again for the next, oh, ? 20 yrs ?

Posted by Michelle O'Rorke At 05:22:13 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

54 - Excellent, excellent news Nathan.
Im sure all will go well for you and yours....

Posted by Paul Mooney At 06:03:35 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

55 - Congratulations!

Posted by Manning Clark At 07:52:20 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

56 - Sorry I'm so late to the comment list about this, but just read it! Wow! Congrats to you and yours! Leave it to you Nathan to find an interesting way to break the news to us. Emoticon

Posted by Phil Randolph At 08:18:00 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

57 - Congrats to my favorite brother and sister-in-law! THANK YOU for giving us a new toy! I can't wait to see you guys! Emoticon

Posted by Marne At 09:20:52 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

58 - Congratulations! Best of luck to you both... Emoticon

Posted by Nicholas At 09:44:07 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

59 - Congrats N8! Lotusphere will be tight in January 2009. Lack of sleep during March to May will not be so bad, you simply won't remember much, LOL.

EVERYONE is going to offer advice, whether you want it or not. You'll need a full text index to sort it all out. Here's my 2cents:

Baby Depot and Walmart and the like have many gadgets to make life easier. Spare no expense, get the best rocking chair, crib and furniture now while you still can. Get the evenflo bottles and plenty of spare nipples both stage 1 and 2. Get the wipe-warmer. Get a Diaper Genie II (best invention ever). Get a Sam's Club membership for wipes, diapers, and formula if needed. Get a baby bottle brush and one of those steam sanitizers for the bottles. This fall when your wife is "nesting", best to just get out of the way and do what you are told and lift heavy stuff. It is perfectly normal to spend those first couple of months that won't remember chatting about baby poop. "The Poop Report" will happen daily.

Posted by Paul At 09:57:49 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

60 - @59 - Lisa's a preschool teacher. I get regular Poop Reports already, often over dinner. Emoticon

There's a Babies 'R Us across the street from my office. We've already gone perusing in there. But I think I'm going to sick my bargain hunting mother on the challenge of "find less expensive ways to meet these 10 needs" kind of thing. She is to home accessorizing what Notes is to business applications.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 10:17:21 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

61 - Good advice Paul. The cost of the Sam's club membership will definitely be offset by the savings in formula (if you go that route). Diapers and wipes aren't that much cheaper there, but formula definitely is worth it!

Wipe warmer? Nah, they don't get THAT cold!! Emoticon

Use the saved money to buy another can of formula. Bottles also do well in the dishwasher where they're also steamed. Save that money and get a couple packs of diapers! Emoticon

Definitely get the Diaper Genie as well!!

If you have a boy, we may have some seasonally-correct clothing left from Ollie since he's a March baby, but Jen's already consigned a good bit of stuff. Emoticon

Posted by Chris Whisonant At 10:23:38 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

62 - A 'wipe warmer'?

I've heard it all now...

Posted by Ben Poole At 10:31:40 AM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

63 - @62 - Ben, the wipe warmer is the difference between a baby that cries during a diaper change, and one that turns into a fire alarm. No kidding. I know it sounds trivial, but that screaming, man...it's maddening! I mean, just think about it; how would your like your feet hoisted skyward and a glass of cold water poured on your dark matter in the middle of the night?

Posted by Keil Wilson` At 04:05:21 PM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

64 - @63. I have three kids Emoticon

Posted by Ben Poole At 04:46:42 PM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

65 - You go, Nephew!!! Congrats, R n J

Posted by Ron n Jeanine At 08:50:40 PM On 07/11/2008 | - Website - |

66 - Wow congratulations!

I know I'm late but I couldn't figure out what the topic was about from google reader alone - no pic Emoticon

Posted by Pedro Quaresma At 08:07:37 AM On 07/12/2008 | - Website - |

67 - Congrats man! Way to pick the date - well clear of Lotusphere... Emoticon

Posted by Mikkel Heisterberg At 08:15:46 AM On 07/12/2008 | - Website - |

68 - Congrats Nathan (and Lisa) and good planning on the dates :)

Posted by Steve Castledine At 09:39:38 AM On 07/12/2008 | - Website - |

69 - Congratulations!

Hope the "delivery" won't be a month early Emoticon

Thomas

Posted by Thomas Bahn At 06:52:06 PM On 07/12/2008 | - Website - |

70 - That is truly marvelous!

Congratulations to both of you!
Emoticon

Posted by John FJY At 07:21:16 AM On 07/16/2008 | - Website - |

71 - Congrats to you both! I'm not sure who will have the bigger adventure: you two or the baby! Emoticon

Posted by Don McNally At 09:27:52 AM On 07/21/2008 | - Website - |

72 - Heard about this but missed it in postings.
As they say in the holy land B'shaa tova and as they say in the Godfather, may your first child be a masculine one.

Get some sleep now, you'll need it then!

Posted by Keith Brooks At 12:54:13 PM On 07/24/2008 | - Website - |

73 - Great news!! And, the added benefit is that I'll finally be able to get rid of the Jenny Lind(?) crib in my attic! Do you think the baby's first word will be "Aristotle?"

Posted by TheTinNTF At 10:08:39 PM On 07/28/2008 | - Website - |

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