I just moved a 250 GB hard drive from my old machine to my new one… and I just realized that I now have 0.55 terabytes of storage in this box. That blows me away.

Son: Dad, I hear fireworks! Me: You do? I don’t hear any but I believe you. You have better ears than me. Son: I do? Me: Your ears are young so you can hear better than me. My ears are old. Son: Parent ears only hear bad things. Me: Bad things? Like what? Son: Like [...]

We recently bought a couple of packages of Dreyer’s Dibs bite-sized ice cream, mainly so it would be easier for the kids to have ice cream without making a huge mess all over the place. Total success and they taste good, too. But the best part… Guess what the serving size is. 2 pieces? 8 [...]

Lovely and Talented Wife: Ok, bud, get your shoes on. Son: Um, Mom. The question is: “Where are my socks?” Lovely and Talented Wife: That is the question, isn’t it? Socks and shoes, Plato. Son: Ok, Mom. He’s four, people.

So I went to buy a new computer (because my current aging machine is really starting to annoy me sometimes—it’s several years old) and since my last few purchases have been from Dell I clicked on over to see what they were offering. Isn’t it funny that the simultaneous advance of technology and the decreasing [...]

Sharks, butterflies, aliens, and Simba.

Some graduate student asked divorced Slashdot readers if a job in the IT industry contributed to their divorce. *rolls eyes* I need to get started on my thesis about how forks cause obesity.

Tonight we had one of those random, wonderful moments that you try to hold on to because, despite how silly you know it was, it was great and you know it will never happen again. It’s the kind of thing that can only happen when your children are at a certain age. They’re young enough [...]

Handy Box (800 assorted bricks): $15 Small wheels and axles (24 wheels/12 axles in 3 sizes): $8 Extra large grey base plate: $10 I bought this setup for my son a couple of weeks ago and he absolutely loves it. It’s great because it comes with so many pieces and it’s a building set rather [...]

Working Dad at the Seattle PI seems to think there is a debate over whether homework sucks. Ha! Homework sucks. It’s hard for me to believe that anyone thinks it does not suck. Our daughter was getting homework in kindergarten and now even more in first grade. I don’t think I had a similar homework [...]