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Nubbin

While we were eating last night my wife and 5 year old son, whose birthday is on June 1st, had the following conversation:

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Killing You Soon

When I replaced my aging 3rd generation iPod (O touch sensitive buttons! Why did you torment me so?) with a newfangled 5th generation iPod, I naturally had to test out its video capabilities.
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Text Adventure Fan?

Are you a fan of those old Infocom games such as Zork, Starcross, Planetfall, etc? You might enjoy this… unless you are also a fan of President and his handling of the war in Iraq. Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure

Two Nubbins

Aaron wants a brother A few days ago my five year old went up to my wife and gave her a great big kiss. It went kind of like this: “Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmah! There… Is that enough to make a baby?” Misfortune … Continue reading

Parenting: Expect the Unexpected

You know when I signed up for this parenting thing, I expected usual assorted kid problems, skinned knees, spit up and later full real vomit completely with bits of partially digested… whatever, ear infections, etc., etc. We had a new one today. Alex came running upstairs, obviously distraught: “iwasplayingoutsideandiaccidentallygotarockstuckinmybellybutton”!
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