Archive for January, 2005

Welcome

January 31st, 2005

Welcome to The Online Shrine To Parental Self-Absorption #3,487. Stay a while, have a cookie.

99 rooms

January 30th, 2005

Explore 99 rooms (via Wonderland)

Schuyler’s monster

January 30th, 2005

Schuyler’s monster

Sorry, this website is on a coffee break, please come back later

January 30th, 2005

I just found out that the online Social Security Administration office locator doesn’t like working on weekends and holidays. Really. Like, they open so many new offices during the week that it takes them 9 hours to load all the new addresses Saturday night.

Who am I?

January 28th, 2005

I’m the sixth result at Google when you search for John Watson and the fourth when you search for “John Watson” (with quotes). The guys ahead of me are: the John Watson who invented the behaviorism branch of psychology and the John Watson who writes and reviews chess books. I’m ranked above the John Watson [...]

Youth

January 28th, 2005

For the Photo Friday theme “Youth”:

Lying to The Children, Acceptable Situation #47

January 27th, 2005

My daugher asked me today, “Don’t you wish Mommy was your daughter?” I replied with a chuckle, “No, definitely not.” “Why not?” she asked. I thought about it for a minute, one horrible subject leading to the next in my mind, with her innocently asking “why, why,” unrelentingly. “I’ll tell you when you’re older,” I [...]

Lions and tigers and snails, oh my!

January 26th, 2005

The Boy and I dropped The Girl off at pre-school this morning. When we returned home, I walked down to the curb to drop some movies in the mailbox. It was raining lightly and the snails were out in force. I pointed some out to The Boy thinking he would be interested in them; especially [...]

Google and Answers.com

January 26th, 2005

Er? I just looked up a word using Google and clicked the definition link. And instead of arriving at dictionary.com like I usually do, I ended up at answers.com. Unexpected, but nice. I like answers.com’s interface much better, especially that you don’t have to scroll past the annoying banner ad at the top of the [...]

Starbucks density

January 24th, 2005

I’ve only got 16 within five miles of my home and even that seems ridiculously high. That’s one Starbucks for every 3,125 residents of my small town. There’s a competition over at kottke.org to see who has the highest density.