How To Understand Your Screaming Demon-Child

A new parenting documentary! And if you think this is mean spirited, I’d wager that you’re not a parent…

Things To Do at Lunch When You Have No Friends at Work…

In case you ever find yourself working in an environment where everyone around you is 10 years, or more, older than you and shares nothing in common with you beyond the objectives of your employer, here’s some ideas I’ve found to keep from going insane on my mandated 1 hour lunch.

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The Bodily Function Triple Threat

So Nic had just finished feeding Benjamin and she sat him up to burp him… and put her hand in a wet spot on his back where poop had seeped up out of his diaper and into his little outfit.
Being the good husband that I am, I scooped him up (carefully, so as not to [...]

We need some more pictures….

I believe we are lacking in pictures of Benjamin so here are some that I picked out.
Here he is in one of my old pj’s, which by the way doesn’t fit him anymore.
Lounging on the couch

These two are of tummy time
Curled up on dad

Getting ready to face the cold weather yesterday…burrr it was cold!!

1 Month

Ok so today was Benjamin’s 1 month visit with the Doctor. He says that Benjamin is doing great, growing and gaining weight according to the growth curve he is on. Today he got his second Hep B shot and he did great, only cried for alittle while and calmed down right away. He weighed in [...]

Just So We’re Clear

26 is NOT “late 20’s”
I’m in my mid 20’s and no one can take that away from me
…for at least another year.

Verbizing

Frankenstein verb
1. To put together components from multiple sources to make a new machine or device. I’ll frankenstein a couple old workstations and make you a server for about $100.

Top Apps

In the vein of CNet, and others, top apps lists, here’s my top Mac downloadable applications that enable or enhance my roving work experience with my MacBook Pro…
TextWrangler is a free, lightweight and highly capable text editor. It’s perfect for reading documents with unidentifiable extensions, or editing some code, and light years ahead of TextEdit, [...]

Good Day at the Office(s)

You gather as much information as you can, collect opinions, leverage everything you’ve learned in the past, and ultimately go with your gut…
But there’s nothing quiet so affirming as hearing your users say “You’re right, that’s what we need. Keep going!”
I got to hear that twice today — once at each job.
And it feels good!

R2-D2, the secret leader of the Rebellion?

I don’t usually re-post things I find on BoingBoing, but this was just too good. It posits that R2-D2 is in fact one of the leaders of the rebellion, given the information he has that, by the time A New Hope (Episode 4) starts, few other people in the galaxy are aware of. It’s pretty [...]