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Congratulations Bryan and welcome Tobin. I remember how I felt when my twins were born and I agree it certainly is humbling as well as being a WOW experience. I'm glad you took the time away to spend with your family.

Posted by Alan Hargreaves on September 28, 2004 at 11:57 PM PDT #

Welcome Tobin! And congrats Bryan and to your wife. It is indeed tough to explain or really grasp. The first 2-3 weeks are tough physically and emotionally, not to mention all the philosophical debates that go on in your head. It's especially interesting how years of doubt and fears about being a father just sorta fly out the window without a trace. Welcome to the club Dad. :)

Posted by benr on September 29, 2004 at 12:51 AM PDT #

Congratulations! Does Tobin have 30,000+ points of instrumentation too? You'll be wishing for those when he hits his teen years. ;)

Posted by Derek on September 29, 2004 at 10:07 AM PDT #

Thanks for the kind words, Alan, Ben and Derek. Ben, you're absolutely right about how quickly the doubts disappear: there's nothing quite like having modern-day anxieties trumped by the biological imperative. And Derek, I already wish that I had DTrace for Tobin! The problem is made simpler by the relatively small number of transient failure modes (hungry, cold, wet, tired, gassy, bored, lonely), but there have certainly been moments (like, at 4:30a) when some dynamic instrumentation would have been very helpful! ;)

Posted by Bryan Cantrill on September 29, 2004 at 11:50 AM PDT #

Congratulations on the birth of your son! He's a good looking kid.

With a name like that, he'll do well in life. You can take my word for it. :)

Posted by Tobin Coziahr on September 29, 2004 at 07:27 PM PDT #

Congrats, Bryan. :)

Posted by Jim Grisanzio on October 10, 2004 at 06:16 PM PDT #

Gee, it seems like yesterday I was joking with your wife in Boston about how much the little guy must be kicking inside...Tell your wife that's the good news, cause he won't be kicking from the inside anymore...of course the bad news is that most kids will be kicking from the outside for a heck of a lot longer than 9 months!;-)

Congrats to both Mom and Dad! Having gone through both of our child's deliveries, there is nothing so amazing as childbirth.

Hopefully Mom is recovering well by now, and hopefully it was a smooth delivery...Even though both of our kids were quick, natural births, with my wife taking no drugs whatsoever, I've heard my share of women in the delivery room that could have used DTrace to figure out where the fsck that performance problem was in getting their babies out!;-)

Oh, and BTW, his birthday is just a day after mine...(not sure if that's good or bad for you).

Posted by Alan DuBoff on October 11, 2004 at 01:16 AM PDT #

Wow, I missed this blog entry. Congratulations. Cute. Don't worry about 30K points of instrumentation. Crying = Hungry | tired | change diapers :) All other points of instrumentation are secondary to crying.

Posted by John Clingan on October 11, 2004 at 08:19 AM PDT #

Congratulations! Someone (I think in Japan) tried to make a device to distinguish the Hungry | Tired | change diapers cries, but trial and error works!

Posted by bnitz on October 13, 2004 at 09:02 AM PDT #

to new beginnings! mary

Posted by mary on November 18, 2004 at 06:00 AM PST #

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