So, wondering how the puzzle came out? Of course it was the first present she opened. She ripped off the paper, opened the box, looked in for about three seconds, got a look on her face like “eh, blocks” and tossed it aside in favor of another present. Once mommy put the puzzle together and [...]

So, with one thing and another I haven’t been able to get out and go Christmas shopping for my 2 year old until this evening — don’t get me wrong, she’s got lots of presents from family and from mommy and daddy, but I was going to get her a daddy present. Silly me for [...]

When I first heard about Guitar Hero, my reaction was “why spend all that effort getting good at Guitar Hero when I could spend it getting good at the actual guitar?” Of course, to date I have done neither. So I’m not a big Guitar Hero guy; I’ve never played it and I’ve only played [...]

Frog. I could do with fewer specular highlights. [You know what, don't click that specular highlights link; that wikipedia article is useless. The specular highlights are the bright white reflections, that's all you need to know.]

Highly recommended P.J. O’Rourke on Disneyland’s new House of the Future: “It’s beige,” she said. Beige it is—upholstered, carpeted, and painted in brownish, grayish, yellowish hues. And beige metaphorically, too. Any random dull normal person (we have one in our family) could come up with snappier ideas for the future than HoF II seems to [...]

Recently I was trying to find some new music and thought that some best album lists might be a good resource. Needless to say, I was disappointed. The most prominent of these lists is The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. While I own over 100 of the 500 albums on this list, [...]