January 2012
84 posts
FACT: In the illustrations of Goodnight Moon, the clocks advance from 7:00 to 8:10. That’s a long bedtime routine!!
“In three months, Apple’s expenditures on R&D totalled a staggering...”
– Lesser-known facts from Apple’s earnings statement
Erik: How much do you love Poppy?
Nora: Too much.
Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina Republican primary, and not two days later, we are bathed in radiation from an explosion on the Sun.
Coincidence? I don’t think so…
Between my wife, daughter and me, there’s so much coughing in our house, it sounds like a theater right after the lights have dimmed.
WatchGorgeous video, song and lyrics.
Watching early morning Basque cartoons with my daughter.
BREAKING NEWS: This year, for Carnival, my daughter’s daycare is going with a Snow White theme. The kids will be dressed as dwarves, the daycare workers will be dressed as Snow White, the daycare boss will be the evil queen, and, after my stunning debut as a crack photographer last year, I will be playing the role of Prince Charming.
Reading and thinking about quantum mechanics right before bed makes some seriously bizarre dreams. No more bizarre than quantum reality, mind you.
Moderate Masochist
Erik: Ow! Don't hit me with that toy.
Nora: Why?
Erik: Because it hurts, and I don't like things that hurt, do you?
Nora: A little bit. Sometimes. But not too much.
One of my daughter’s Christmas toys, neglected until today, is so loud that an emergency joint session of the household legislature had to be convened to ban its use indoors.
Nora just came into my office and said, “Poppy! When your dinner is ready, you have to stop working and eat it!”
“I’ve got 99 problems, but a troublesome girl who is nevertheless still some...”
– Jay-Z will no longer use the word “bitch” now that he has a daughter
Charting The Average Nap
It always amuses me how, anytime there’s a story involving people from multiple nationalities (today’s example: Italian Cruise ship) the press only really seems to be concerned with the possible victims from OUR in-group. “Yes, it was a disaster, but how many people from MY country died?” Humans are a funny species, aren’t we?
Nora: I don't love you, Mommy.
Mommy: What?? Do you love Poppy?
Nora: Yes!
Poppy: Nora, come here.
Nora: [walks to Poppy] What?
Poppy: You don't love Mommy?
Nora: No.
Poppy: Yes you do. You love me, and I love Mommy, so therefore you love Mommy. Go tell Mommy that you love her.
Nora: [walks to Mommy] Mommy, I love you.........NOW!
I just fell off the Bubble Wrap wagon. It’s been years since I’ve been a “user”, but my wife and daughter were having too much fun in front of me, and I fell victim. OMG it’s fun!
If what she wakes up screaming is any indication, my daughter’s nightmares consist mainly of being told she can’t have any more olives.