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Category Archives: Family

Friday Fun(ny) Link – Baby’s First Word

When I was born, my parents were running a bulk fuel business in my hometown.  I was basically raised in the office of that ESSO fuel station for the first few years of my life (which explains a lot of my current brain damage and any future cancers I may acquire!) With the number of […]

Posted 26 November 2010 § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Santa Comes Early (Just Move Your Hands)

Shea’s been wanting a Wii for a long time and it was looking like we’d get one this Christmas. But then, she came across the XBox Kinect – a motion-based gaming system where, instead of any handheld controller, your body motions are scanned by a camera/scanner combo placed somewhere near your TV and that’s how […]

Posted 24 November 2010 § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Dear Santa

Dear Santa, originally uploaded by headtale. Pace is getting very excited for Christmas this year – he “encouraged” us to put up the tree a week ago and then, the next day, decided not only that we had to write a letter to Santa *right now* but also, walk down the dark, snowy street to […]

Posted 20 November 2010 § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Great Way For Women to Support Movember (Other Than Donating Money of Course)

Today is “Have Sex With a Guy With a Mustache” Day, created (by Maxim magazine?  Oh, sorry – I mean, Asylum magazine) as a way for women to support the men they love as they grow all those oh-so-sexy soup strainers in support of prostate cancer. In related news, I thought about registering for Movember […]

Posted 18 November 2010 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Popular Science Lecturer Collapses, Students Rush To…Twitter?

Stories like this are only hastening my arrival at a “kids these days!” state of old man intolerance and disgust. Okay, I’m sure part of this isn’t just a generation of insensitive, YouTube zomboids not reacting to an emergency but also a terrible example of the bystander effect, except, like so many other things, the […]

Posted 17 November 2010 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Spider-Pace in action on Halloween

Spider-Pace in action on Halloween, originally uploaded by headtale.

Posted 06 November 2010 § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Rock and Roll?

Pace gives new meaning to the term “rock and roll” at the playground today…

Posted 24 October 2010 § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Trick or treat

Pace is ready for next weekend!

Posted 23 October 2010 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Sappy Sunday – Days With My Father

A very moving photo-essay about living with a parent with Alzheimer’s (featuring some very unique web design as well – click at the bottom of each page to advance to the next one.) (via Reddit)

Posted 03 October 2010 § Sad ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Five Hits

I did this semi-recurring feature a couple times on my old blog but can’t remember what I called it. Five hits? Five Thoughts? Five Things? Anyhew, that’s not important. Here’s your quick hits: Hockey If you haven’t watched Battle of the Blades, you should whether you like hockey or figure skating or both or neither. […]

Posted 28 September 2010 § Library § Politics § Randomness ‡ Comments (1) °