Reading to Ellen, who can NOT get enough about Disney World (we’re going Saturday), we read about EPCOT. I read something about the Japanese pavillion and she says, wisely, “The people from there are Japanish, right?” Er…close… Karen thinks it’s a better mix of Japanese and Spanish than, say, Spanese, which makes them sound like…
I’m feeling what might be the onset of yet another bout of diverticulitus, and I am truly sick of dealing with this. It’s a frustrating, annoying illness, especially for someone my age to have to deal with, but I guess it could be worse. There, it could be worse. Now I feel better. Not.
OK, so there are only 2 entries here, but they’re both cool and silly, so I think it counts as a round up! First, courtesy of Neil Gaiman’s blog, the iDuck. It’s more important for non-volatile RAM to be a good bathtub toy than to be small anyway. Second, courtesy of Gizmodo, the wonderful gadget…
The other day, my wife and I are standing in front of my 6 year old’s room, talking to each other. Me: What’s that word..It means “everywhere” or “all over the place”? It’s like ubik…ubik… Ellen, from her room, lying on her bed idly: Ubiquitous? My wife and I both stop, turn to look at…
There’s this cool faxing “project” that I read about in Neil Gaiman’s blog that allows you to fax by sending an email for free. It’s a very cool concept, because it can be used for a number of other things as well. For example: –getting a print out of something when there’s no printer nearby…
When I was a kid, there was a wonderfully entertaining and equally educational show called The Electric Company. For some sad reason, it never survived but here, for those of you starved for Spiderman, Letterman, and The Plumber, come bit and pieces of the show in mp3 and quicktime format. And I can’t believe that…
Actually, it’s not true, but sometimes I wish I did. Today, I finished Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, a thoroughly brilliant and wonderful read. And as a result, I’m very sad. Not because the book had a sad ending, but because it’s no longer available to me in the same way, ever again, unless I develop…
Sitting at the table tonight, after the fiasco in the car: Me: Katie, eat slower. Your stomach might still be a little funny Ellen (age-6): I don’t want my Katie to die! Katie (age 3): I’m not gonna die. Only grown ups die sometimes! What do you say to that? I said “shh and eat…
So it’s Easter. Rah Rah. I hate to be cynical, and for disclosure purposes, I’m Jewish (although just barely that, in any case), but like many religious holidays, this has become a “What did you buy me?” holiday, only instead of a fat old man, it’s a furry bunny. Bizarre, actually. My wife is really…
AOL for broadband. You’d think that if someone was going to put a cable modem connection in a house, it would be a cable connection, across which you’d use AOL. Nope. AOL for broadband means ONLY AOL across that big, fat pipe. No AOL, no access. I’m lost in the wastelands of upstate new york…