Today I have coded like a mad man. Pending client approval, I have put a project to rest and enjoyed myself in the process! Next…
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I’m failing my family so badly.
Master: Bemoaning failure does little to make success.
It’s good to be the kid
Imagine two 10 foot lengths of ½ inch pvc pipe. Add two boys, one 15 mentally 8; one 9, mentally…well, all nine year olds are mental. I look out the window and the nine year old swings his sword, his 10 foot long sword, at the 15 year old then runs down the street and the 15 year old swings his sword, his 10 foot long sword, in circles above his head while chasing his little brother down the street. Each child laughing manically.
So many $10,000 video moments!
Children Steal Your IQ
- Put 10 month old into swing and buckle securely.
- Hold your left hand as if you were going to shake hands.
- Place a bottle of Tylenol Infant Drops Plus Cold between your thumb and index finger of the left hand.
- Use your right hand to squeeze dropper and remove cap with dropper full of medicine.
- Use left hand to remove pacifier from infant’s mouth by grabbing with index finger and thumb.
- Try to place dropper into infant’s mouth only to realize taking infant to 9 year old’s karate lessons has been a mistake.
- Use pinky finger, ring finger and middle finger of left hand to hold down infant’s right arm.
- Use right forearm to block infant’s left hand.
- Quickly shove dropper into infant’s mouth.
- Realize that since step 7 the bottle of Tylenol Infant Drops Plus Cold has been pouring onto infant’s stomach.
Perhaps I watched too much Three Stooges as a child.
My brain has been damaged
The Higglytown Heroes just did The Time Warp. (they tried diguising it with word changes to make it about how to find a lost family member)
I have some interesting memories of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (amz)
Evan makes the grandparents nervous
Notice Granny’s hand in the lower right? Evan laughs and loves doing this!
Where will we go?
The letter came today. In 60 to 90 days we could potentially be part of Knoxville’s homeless. Any suggestions on shelters?
How the mind works.
Check out this very interesting post. Although adults may initially be shocked by the picture, apparently it is absolutely safe to view with your children.
Deer in the headlights
Worksafe video on Fashion versus Style. Today’s link to make you say, "huh?" Thanks Tim!
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I don’t think I can save us this time.
Master: Does it have to be you, alone, that saves us?
Out to get me
There is one deodorant that I cannot use. Anything by Right Guard breaks me out in a rash. Pretty much anything else is ok.
My wife and I had this discussion the other night. I ran out of deodorant two days ago. "What kind can you not use?" "Right Guard" "Isn’t that the one I always buy you?" "Yes, their marketing must be very good. Right Guard breaks me out in a rash for three days. Do not buy Right Guard." "Ok. Got it. Right Guard is evil." "That’s correct. I cannot use Right Guard but you always buy me Right Guard anyway." "What kind do you like?" "Gillette works well for me. But you can get me anything as long as it is not Right Guard." "Ok. Got it. Gillette, not Right Guard."
Today in my drawer in the bathroom — Right Guard.
Leave my nose alone!
I look down at my 10 month old (yes, he’s up another month!) and a large amount of snot is pouring out of his nose so I grab a tissue, he sees me, and spins his head 180° and blocks me with his hands before I ever reach him! They learn so fast.
Can anyone see this?
So, are we blocked from everyone? Is anyone seeing this today? Oh, wait a minute, it’s Friday. No one reads on Friday 🙂
I hate filtering software
When I worked at The Learning Company we owned 85% of the filtering market with a product called Cyberpatrol. It was ineffective and inaccurate. Often the product blocked sites that should not be blocked while allowing sites that should be blocked to be seen, and children always found a way around the product.
Apparently, Websense has blocked Reality Me and Cathy as "Gambling" sites. What?! So I go to Websense and find that navigating their site is about as cryptic as their blocking of our sites. There is no way to look up what sites are blocked, no FAQ explaining how to appeal, and no way to send an email without being a customer. I find this kind of fascism on the web to be very disturbing. It would be like me opening a business in Knoxville only to find that one day my customer volume has suddenly dropped off without explanation. Then I receive a fax from a friend explaining that the city has removed the road leading up to my business because they had a rumor that my bookstore was actually a gambling establishment. No communication with me. No verifications. Just dug up the road!
I’ve now been on hold with Websense for 11 mintues. My dime. Lost productivity. And why? For someone else’s mistake. This is like when some firm has an accounting error and puts the onus on me, the customer, to disprove the accounting error (which has happened to me but I can’t remember the specific instance). I should bill for this time.
Update: Took 26 minutes just to get a email address to appeal to. About 15 minutes of that was the Websense employee explaining to me that the business using Websense needed to make an exception in the software for my site rather than having their proprietary database recategorize the site. This kind of idiocacy damages the functionality of the Internet as a whole.
Determined
Evan has gone down for his morning nap and through the monitor I hear this (obviously the quote is what I assume Evan is thinking):
click click click click click “If I hold this thing still I won’t fall asleep”
Now for the visual. Evan prefers to sleep in his swing
