In my mailbox today: Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member, On March 15th we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will have to use a Yahoo! ID to sign in to Flickr. We’re making this change now to simplify the sign in process in advance of several [...]

We just finished cleaning out my office today* and in the process found, remembered, laughed about, conquered, and parted with 20 years worth of memorabilia that we’ve come to realize doesn’t mean as much to us today as it once did. Ancient, embarrassing love letters; old photographs; 80s year books; high school and college notebooks. [...]

The Lovely and Talented Wife was browsing through iTunes today to find some audiobooks for the kids to listen to and she came across a great site called Storynory.com. They add a new story each week and podcast them so it’s easy to keep current. I listened to Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of the more recent additions [...]

Lovely and talented wife: You guys are ridiculous. Me: Come again? Wife: Every time you Skype, you guys spend the first 5 minutes talking about the echo. Me: No. Wife: You do! The echo is worse. The echo is better. Even when there’s no echo you talk about how the echo was the last time [...]

Walking with their aunt on New Year’s Eve.

Lovely and talented wife: A friend of mine just took a beading class with her daughter. Me: Wow, a class, huh? Is that some kind of therapy thing? Wife: What? Me: How badly was her daughter behaving? Lovely and talented and patient wife: BEADing. A BEADing class. With a “D.”

Pretty funny. About what you’d expect. Worth seeing just for the scenes with The Tone Rangers (an all male a cappella group led by John Michael Higgins).

A subtle comedy without being (too) dark. Not for everyone, follows the dysfunctional-family-bonds-via-quest formula, but has its moments. There are no profound revelations (but some that try to be) and you don’t get to know most of the characters well enough to really care about their personal struggles or how they overcome them (which is [...]

These are the coolest paper-crafty-doll-monster things I’ve ever seen. The kids are going to love making these (and so am I)! [via Lifehacker]

If you are ever in a situation to participate in making stone soup with your child’s pre-school class, bear these tips in mind: 1. Don’t bring the onion. 2. If you bring the onion, don’t chop it first. 3. If you chop it, for goodness sake, double-bag it. Doubtless these tips aren’t necessary if you [...]