G.A.M.E. all ages test
I took my whole family to the show--including our 2 1/2-year-old daughter and our 3-month-old son. The verdicts for each of us: 1) I had a blast--it was great to see so many people enjoying... Conquering Fear: The Megorry Round
There was a famous person who said in some graduation speech (that was later turned into a short-lived pop song in the mid '90s), "Do something that frightens you every day." Two weeks ago (I... Riding the Bike-osaur
Our neighbor's oldest child recently graduated to one of those bike-trailer things that connects behind a full-size bike, so they no longer needed the bike seat that he used to ride in and loaned... Building a Play Structure
I celebrated our nation's independence this past weekend by doing my best imitation of the classic American dad: I went to Home Depot, bought a pile of wood and bolts, and set to work building a... Logic in the mind of a 2-year-old
Here's a sequence of events from this past weekend that nearly made me pee my pants: There's a group of adults sitting around in the living room on a Saturday afternoon. Andrew is a family... Conversations w/ a 2-year-old III: How to Win Friends
Discovering that adults often say nice things to each other in conversation, my daughter has now learned how to give compliments: Trey: OK Arev, here's your breakfast. Arev: I like your shirt.... Conversations with a 2-year-old, part II: Why?
I don't know where she picked it up, but she just learned the old "why?" trick. Here's a fairly typical interaction: Trey: Come on, you have to get in the stroller. Arev: Why? Trey: Because... Conversations with a 2-year-old
This exchange happened a couple days ago: C: Arev, what would you like to eat for lunch? A: I don't know.... food? C: OK, well--what kind of food? A: Um...(long pause)...breakfast? ... Liftoff
And here we are in June already, of 2005! I just turned 30, I'm about to celebrate my five-year anniversary, my daughter's almost two, and we're expecting another child in August. If I met my... Great White Goes Home
Looks like it was a good thing I went to see this thing when I did, because now it's been released: Great white shark released off California   By Thom Akeman - REUTERS... Great White!
We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Saturday to see the great white shark. It was pretty incredible. Fortunately we arrived right when the aquarium opened, so we were able to do our first loop... Happy Birthday EverQuest!
EverQuest launched six years ago today: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/everquest/news_2451971.html Any guesses to how much time combined all the players have spent on that game and it's... Billboards coming to a planet near you!
This news article caught my eye today: In-game ads coming to Anarchy Online http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/24/news_6119195.html The idea of supporting these games through advertising... Back in the U.S.A.
We had a great time in Italy. Rome, Arezzo, Florence, Cinque Terre (Vernazza), Moniga del Garda, Venice. Traveling with a toddler is definitely different than normal travel, but all three of us... Running the Corporate Race
It was like an office happy hour, except everyone was wearing shorts and sneakers and drinking PowerAde. A group of us had just finished running the JPMorganChase Corporate Challenge, a charity... Pink Man, Superhero
I knew by his skin-tight pink bodysuit and unicycle that this was no ordinary man. I had spent the summer whiling away the time at the beach, in that curious interval between high school and... Wolfshead vs. Hirohito
I just finished reading Wolfshead by Robert Howard (the author who created Conan). It was in a box of books from my dad, and I needed something to read after finishing Hirohito: The Making of... Mini Train World
Over the weekend my wife and I took our daughter Arev up to the steam train at Tilden park. I'd never seen the train, even though I've lived in the bay area for more than ten years now. It's... Holalphabetic Sentence
Just came across ths term. I'd been calling them alphatences, and another name for them is pangrams. It means a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. The challenge, of course, is to... And They're Off!
Journals are, that is. Here's a tongue twister I'd never heard before: Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter...