Update 04/0610: A spokesperson for Mattel today clarified previous statements about the upcoming revisions to the Scrabble rules. It turns out that they have no plans to change the Scrabble that we all love. Instead there are plans for a new Scrabble game called Scrabble: Trixter that will have all of these crazy new [...]
I never had any interest in school dances. Least of all the prom. Yet, somehow I got asked to go every year of high school and wormed my way out of going each year. My excuses were pathetic and paper-thin every year. One year I told the girl who asked me that I was going [...]
Dum-Dums are those lollipops that businesses like to hand out to kids when they’ve been well behaved waiting for a parent or spent 15 minutes not squirming in the barber’s chair. They’re cheap and kids love them. But, did you know that there have been 36 Dum-Dums flavors in the history of the Spangler [...]
It’s about time. I had been watching Netflix on my computer, from DVD’s mailed to me and streaming it to my Xbox. Recently though, I canceled my Xbox Live membership because I didn’t see the point. Sony doesn’t charge for subscription and neither does Nintendo. Thus, Netflix is better on Nintendo and Sony than it is on Xbox – Netflix [...]
I went in my cupboard yesterday to prepare a bowl of cereal and that’s when I realized that I really am completely racist. I have cereal bowls which are identical except for their color, and I actually spend the time to segregate them when I put them back in the cupboard. I [...]
Bento Boxes are nothing more than Japanese lunch boxes. Bento itself is the art of making the meals. The difference between Japanese (and Korean and Taiwanese for that matter) boxed lunches and ours is that we don’t take our food quite as seriously as they do. Thus our meals and boxes are a [...]
In light of the several recent large earthquakes around the world (the Okinawa quake was 13 miles into the crust so it didn’t do much) I’ve started thinking about what I would do if a disaster struck close to home. But, living in Boulder, the only natural disaster I could think of was [...]
Welcome to the Jungle came on the radio yesterday. I was drumming along with it on my steering wheel when I came to the sudden realization that I was listening to the classic rock station. Not an 80′s rock station — classic rock as in The Doors! I don’t need any more [...]
It hit me yesterday that my kids don’t watch kid TV shows. As a result I don’t know what’s on or what’s popular. We go to bed late and wake up late thereby missing all the cartoon shows and PBS kid programming. They don’t know what Sesame Street is or – jeez, I don’t [...]
Today, folks, is my 300th article! I started this blog on May 26, 2009 and have not missed a single day since. In fact, this 300th article comes on the 264th day since the start date. But, the number of articles is not what I’m most proud of; it’s the consistency. I’ve written in [...]
The boys and I went on a tour of the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory today. It’s here in Boulder, just two miles from my house. I’d never been there despite it being so close and a pretty big deal here in Boulder. Why hadn’t I? I don’t know; it was educational and fun. The [...]
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