A few nights ago I took the boys to football practice and we listened to Crazy Dave’s Star Wars episode in the car. When we returned home we still had 15 minutes of the show left so I decided to try something new. When I put the boys to bed I asked if they wanted [...]
This week’s blog blast is sponsored by the Parent Bloggers Network and its on The First Day of School. Its obviously fitting for lots of people this time of year but especially me since I’m sort of half excited and half dreading the start of the school year right now! Ethan will be starting K [...]
Does anyone here use twitter? I’ve been hearing about it for a long time on the podcasts I listen to, but never tried. I finally broke down and signed up, but didn’t bother going back to check the feeds I was following. Today, while upgrading to Firefox 3 (awesome!) I discovered TwitterFox, a Firefox plugin [...]
I came across this wonderful story about Daniel Burd, a Canadian 16 year old that isolated bacteria that can eat a plastic bag in 3 months! Amazing story and the logic he applied is so wonderful in its simplicity, yet no one else has done this. Here it is in a nutshell. It takes 1000 [...]
I’ve been listening to a lot of podiobooks and audible books lately and find myself saying “the kids will love this…when they’re older”. Since some of our readers have older kids or are themselves young at heart I decided to post a list of some of my favorites. These are all for the Harry Potter [...]
Attention all NY State residents. Starting June 1st, Amazon will start charging 8.375% sales tax on your orders to be compliant with the new internet tax law proposed by former Governor Spitzer and passed by current Governor Patterson. Amazon is suing the state in NY State Supreme court, but until then we will be stuck [...]
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Heather and I had an epiphany about kids music recently. We really don’t like it very much. There are a few songs I like, but most of the music we have for the kids we tolerate, but don’t enjoy. The litmus test is when one of these songs starts playing while your ipod is shuffling [...]
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