Introducing Cody Yokoyama Haack

A while back I mentioned the beginning of phase 1 of my total world domination plans. This morning at 3:55 AM, phase 1 is officially complete with the birth of our son, Cody Yokoyama Haack, all seven pounds and fourteen ounces of him.

First, the little dictator is ready to rule our household. Later, the world! (click to see larger)

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Actually, our affectionate nickname for Cody is “Little Thug” because of the skull cap they gave him and for the way he likes to mad dog us. Here’s a short little video to demonstrate.

Of course, he may have good reason to look upset at us, given these incriminating photos.

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We brought Cody home the same day that he was born. Cody’s momma is doing just fine. From start to finish, the whole process took around 9 hours. It was fast, but furious. Fortunately, there were no complications and my wife was able to deliver without the aid of any drugs, which was her goal. Let’s just say I am in awe of her because I was trying to get pain killers and I was just holding her hand.

It was a long night, but an amazing experience. The little guy is a total trooper. When they pricked his heel to draw blood for various tests, he grumbled a bit, but didn’t end up wailing as I expected. Of course, thugs don’t wail.

There are more photos on flickr.

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Requesting Gravatar... Simone Jun 06, 2007 10:45 PM
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!
Requesting Gravatar... Beebe4 Jun 06, 2007 10:49 PM
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He is a little thug! Congratulations!
Requesting Gravatar... jayson knight Jun 06, 2007 10:50 PM
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Huge congratulations! Middle name: <something>Mountain?
Requesting Gravatar... Jon Galloway Jun 06, 2007 10:51 PM
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Congrats!!!
Requesting Gravatar... Micah Dylan Jun 06, 2007 10:58 PM
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Oh oh, there goes the planet. Congrats Phil, Akumi!
Requesting Gravatar... Scott Jun 06, 2007 11:13 PM
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Congratulations! I'm glad everything went well.

Let the insane sleep deprivation begin!
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Jun 06, 2007 11:20 PM
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Thanks all!

@Jayson - it's my wife's last name. I think it means in front of mountain. Or near mountain? I'll ask.
Requesting Gravatar... Jon Limjap Jun 06, 2007 11:39 PM
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Congrats! Is he your first child?

Hah, I'd expect fewer entries from you now. Either that or we could hear your wife telling you to stop blogging and change Cody's diapers! Hahaha!
Requesting Gravatar... barryd Jun 06, 2007 11:40 PM
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congrats. it is a wrinkly thing :) so when does he get his first laptop?
Requesting Gravatar... Jeff Atwood Jun 06, 2007 11:42 PM
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Congrats man!! And to your wife, I heard she did some work on this too..
Requesting Gravatar... Joe Pruitt Jun 06, 2007 11:56 PM
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Congrats Phil! Now the real fun begins...
Requesting Gravatar... oVan Jun 07, 2007 12:01 AM
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Oh help, another Haack! World domination has started indeed...

Many congrats from this part of the world, it looks like a healthy little fellow!
Requesting Gravatar... Mads Kristensen Jun 07, 2007 12:33 AM
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Congrats!
Requesting Gravatar... Frans Bouma Jun 07, 2007 12:44 AM
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Congrats!

Already an international kid: English first name, Japanese middle name and Dutch Surname! ;)
Requesting Gravatar... Rob Conery Jun 07, 2007 12:48 AM
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CONGRATS Homey!!!!!! He is sooooo cute! What a fun time you have ahead of you! I'm so stoked for you!

Love the pictures - especially the face squeezy ones!

Enjoy the next few weeks - they're wonderful.
Requesting Gravatar... Jon Rowett Jun 07, 2007 1:01 AM
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congratulations!

sounds not unlike my son's birth, which was also fast and drugless. oh, and loud. (if my partner had known what she was in for, she would have had every drug going...)
Requesting Gravatar... Andy Stopford Jun 07, 2007 1:24 AM
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Many congrats to you and your wife !!
Requesting Gravatar... Filini Jun 07, 2007 1:39 AM
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congratulations :-)
Requesting Gravatar... Tero Miettinen Jun 07, 2007 1:44 AM
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Congratulations :)
Requesting Gravatar... Dave T Jun 07, 2007 2:18 AM
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Sheesh, it feels likes you're all having babies.

Congrats Phil!

PS: You being a developer and all, is Cody a play on words?
Requesting Gravatar... Jay Flowers Jun 07, 2007 3:05 AM
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Congratulations!
Nice looking boy. It's always better to deal with a charismatic thug. ;-)
Requesting Gravatar... Denis Basaric Jun 07, 2007 3:39 AM
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Congratulations! If it is your first, Its okay to be scared :-) If its not, well, you know what to expect. Great looking baby.
Requesting Gravatar... Craig Jun 07, 2007 4:18 AM
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Congratulations! It's guaranteed to the be the best thing that's ever happened to you.

BTW, the part you did already was the easy part. ;)
Requesting Gravatar... Dimitri Glazkov Jun 07, 2007 4:55 AM
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Woot! Your life as you know it is over. Your new life has just begun! Congratulations, dude!
Requesting Gravatar... Eric D. Burdo Jun 07, 2007 5:20 AM
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>> Oh help, another Haack!

But it's just a little Haack? What's the harm in a little haack? Hmmm?

Congrats to the 3 of you. Prepare for your life (as you know it) to be stood on end. All for the better of course (well, except for this nasty little diapers).
Requesting Gravatar... Steve Harman Jun 07, 2007 5:41 AM
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Congrats buddy!

How long until Cody.Haacked.com goes live?
Requesting Gravatar... Ben Lucas Jun 07, 2007 5:50 AM
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Congratulations! Welcome to the great (and tiring) world of being a father!
Requesting Gravatar... Jason Monroe Jun 07, 2007 5:59 AM
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Congradulations!! :)

One of my favorite quotes from Bill Cosby (If you've not seen Himself, you must)..

"And then God put oder in the poo-poo...."
Requesting Gravatar... Tod Birdsall Jun 07, 2007 6:16 AM
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Congrats!
Requesting Gravatar... Citizen Parker Jun 07, 2007 6:18 AM
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"It was fast, but furious"


Congrats Phil! I can't wait for the sequel, 2 Fast, 2 Furious
Requesting Gravatar... Yex Jun 07, 2007 6:22 AM
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Wow, congratulations man, that's fantastic. Gets me even a little bit more excited, as my wife and I are expecting our first in December.
Requesting Gravatar... Kevin Dente Jun 07, 2007 6:33 AM
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Congrats, Phil. In the immortal words of John McClean..

Welcome to the party, pal.

;)

Requesting Gravatar... Michael K. Campbell Jun 07, 2007 7:28 AM
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Congrats and best wishes. How exciting.
Requesting Gravatar... Sean Chambers Jun 07, 2007 8:15 AM
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Congratulations!!

I'll be going through the same process in 3 months. Hopefully my wife's childbirth will go just as smooth!
Requesting Gravatar... jm Jun 07, 2007 8:19 AM
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now the real work begins!
Requesting Gravatar... Brandon Jun 07, 2007 8:57 AM
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Congrats on the little one.
Requesting Gravatar... Steff Jun 07, 2007 10:28 AM
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Yay!!! Thug Life 4-EVA. Cody is awesome (and so tolerant of all the squishing of the face) and WIFE IS AMAZING. Love the THREE of you!
Requesting Gravatar... Erik Jun 07, 2007 10:30 AM
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Congratulations you two!!!
I'm so happy for you!
Requesting Gravatar... Ryan Smith Jun 07, 2007 10:31 AM
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Congratulations.

I guess no one likes disposable income anymore.
Requesting Gravatar... Vic Jun 07, 2007 10:45 AM
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Welcome to your new world!

At first I'm sure you'll take in all the great moments, but when the constant waking in the middle of the night starts to set in don't forget to stop and enjoy them anyway and store away all those memories... they are priceless!

Oh, and good luck keeping up the prolific blogging!

Awesome! Congrats!
Requesting Gravatar... Jordan Jun 07, 2007 11:22 AM
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Congrats, Phil!! Cute kid...for a thug. =)
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Jun 07, 2007 11:28 AM
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Cody's name is not intentionally a play on words. Believe it or not, it wasn't after we decided on the name someone pointed out the obvious connection. ;)

Disposable income, free time? Who needs all these things anyways? ;) Besides, this is one way to help staff an Open Source project. Of course, it's a very *long-term* strategy.
Requesting Gravatar... Stefano Demiliani Jun 07, 2007 1:07 PM
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Congratulation Phil!!
Requesting Gravatar... T. Derscheid Jun 07, 2007 3:02 PM
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Very cool kid, and congrats on the drug-free birth. Did you use the Bradley Method? It helped my wife for both of our daughters.
Requesting Gravatar... Christopher Jun 07, 2007 3:22 PM
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Congrats and Welcome to the little new Thug!
Requesting Gravatar... todd Jun 07, 2007 4:50 PM
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Sleep? Overrated. Discretionary free time? Who needs it. You probably used to think that running that marathon was tough. Child's play! You have just begun the longest endurance race of your life! Congratulations to the whole Haackayama family, and welcome to the dad's club :-)
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Jun 07, 2007 5:05 PM
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@T - Yeah, we used the Bradley method.

@Jayson - Yokoyama means "Side of the mountain" in Japanese.
Requesting Gravatar... Dan Jun 07, 2007 5:13 PM
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Congrats on the subdivide!
Requesting Gravatar... Joe Brinkman Jun 07, 2007 5:23 PM
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Congrats. Now it looks like DasBlog will catch up to SubText after all.
Requesting Gravatar... kevin Jun 07, 2007 5:44 PM
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congrats!
Requesting Gravatar... Scott & Kate Paek Jun 07, 2007 6:03 PM
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Welcome to the world Cody! Sorry you look so much like dad. hahaha He looks great.

Congratulations to you and Akumi. Great times to come!
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Jun 07, 2007 7:18 PM
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@Joe - No way man. Cody's showing himself to be a fast learner. But like the rest of the young kids, I'm having trouble convincing him to stick with C# for this. He's trying to port it to IronRuby already.
Requesting Gravatar... Bil Simser Jun 07, 2007 8:02 PM
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Congrats! At least you didn't name him after any operating system ;)
Requesting Gravatar... Keyvan Nayyeri Jun 07, 2007 9:30 PM
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Hey man, congratulations :-)

Couldn't you stop bothering him for a few Flickr photos?! :-P

That's great news from you. I'm glad to see he's health and happy.

Have great days with your new family member :-)
Requesting Gravatar... Phil Unplugged Jun 07, 2007 11:29 PM
# Momma and Cody Are At Home Doing Well
Momma and Cody Are At Home Doing Well
Requesting Gravatar... Omar Shahine Jun 07, 2007 11:31 PM
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Congrats, welcome to parenthood! A lot is going to change, all good :-).
Requesting Gravatar... Wyatt Barnett Jun 08, 2007 6:26 AM
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Congrats. So, when is the kid going to start posting on his own subtext blog?
Requesting Gravatar... Karthik Jun 08, 2007 7:23 AM
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I'm a day late! Belated congrats! Love the "little thug" nickname...manly yet still manages to be cute. Nice.
Requesting Gravatar... Willie Tilton Jun 08, 2007 7:59 AM
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Congrats. Nothing like having kids!
Requesting Gravatar... tod hilton Jun 08, 2007 8:09 AM
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Awesome news! Glad to hear it went smooth. And like everyone else has said...welcome to your new life, but it's all good!
Requesting Gravatar... Jon Hebert Jun 08, 2007 10:03 AM
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Congratulations, Phil! He's a cutie.
Requesting Gravatar... Patrick Finnegan Jun 08, 2007 5:31 PM
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It was 27 years ago last week my first son was born...absolutely life changing and spectacular...and I remember it as clearly as if it were this morning. I am thrilled for you and your wife and expect to see your son on the field soon...never to eaqrly to train a future soccer champion!!!
Well Done!
Requesting Gravatar... rush Jun 08, 2007 8:11 PM
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Being a Haack is pretty cool but to also have the name Cody takes to the next level. Code+e get it? And the whole Yokoyama just makes the entire name kick-ass! Way to go!
Requesting Gravatar... braden Jun 10, 2007 7:51 PM
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Congrats!
Requesting Gravatar... The nameless Jun 11, 2007 5:02 AM
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sure!
Requesting Gravatar... lb Jun 11, 2007 11:54 PM
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big congratulations and best of luck.

those face manipulations photos are drop dead funny. very good.
Requesting Gravatar... Community Blogs Jun 12, 2007 12:43 AM
# Introducing Subkismet-The Cure For Comment Spam
Been a short break from blogging, but I’m ready to get back to writing about Cody , I mean code! My philosophy
Requesting Gravatar... Keyvan Nayyeri Jun 12, 2007 9:33 AM
# Subkismet - The Cure For Comment Spam
Phil Haack , who is now in fatherhood , has done it again with Subkismet (Subtext + Akismet). As he writes
Requesting Gravatar... Shiva Jun 13, 2007 12:14 AM
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Congrats Phil ! So when is Cody 2.0 coming ?
Requesting Gravatar... Niels Hansen Jun 13, 2007 9:58 PM
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Congratulations Dude!
Requesting Gravatar... Dityo Nurasto Jun 18, 2007 8:25 AM
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Congratulations. He's cute :).
Requesting Gravatar... Matt Hudson Jun 20, 2007 10:54 AM
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Congrats
Requesting Gravatar... Ji Sun Stetson Jul 17, 2007 4:37 PM
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Cody's adorable! Congrats to you and your wife. Now he's screwed cuz he's gonna be just as weird or even weirder than his dad! hehehe :P

Allen and I had a baby as well. He's almost 6th months now. His name is Asher Edward Stetson. Welcome to parenthood! You're gonna have lots of fun!
Requesting Gravatar... StevenHarman.net Aug 10, 2007 7:33 AM
# Subtext v1.9.5 'Parlay' Is In the Works
Subtext v1.9.5 'Parlay' Is In the Works
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# Haacking 2007
Haacking 2007

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