Archive for January, 2007

Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member

January 30th, 2007

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 [...]

Old memories

January 27th, 2007

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. [...]

Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids

January 26th, 2007

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 [...]

Skype brings out the 6-year-old girl in me

January 25th, 2007

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 [...]

Afternoon stroll

January 24th, 2007

Walking with their aunt on New Year’s Eve.

Our Daily Miscommunication or Spanking 101 or Perchance to Dream

January 24th, 2007

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.”

Review: The Break Up

January 23rd, 2007

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).

Review: Little Miss Sunshine

January 21st, 2007

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 [...]

Make a paper monster

January 20th, 2007

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]

Stone soup

January 17th, 2007

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 [...]