All posts (newest first)
Learning the guitar, a progress report
A new way to wake up the kids
In the age of Google, who cares about the BBB?
One million visitors
Recent Tweets
New life for an old mp3 player
Listening to lately…
Untitled
Recent Tweets
FD Weather Icons
2 minutes and 45 seconds in the Fashion District
DRM is Bad
My mouth is my kryptonite
Recent Tweets
Console password management script
They REALLY wanted me to take their survey
The “envelope” drawer
I’m sailing! I sail! I’m a sailor!
Science, Hannah Montana, and men in tights
Things that are awesome
Review: The Tudors, Season 1
Buckle up!
Random thoughts and tidbits from elsewhere
Are your kids online? Should they be?
The perils of sleeping in
Shopping shenanigans
A comparison of communication products available from Apple, Inc. and God
A viewer’s guide to Battlestar Galactica
In which my son expresses his opinion about how I earn a living
Archives, tags, categories
Drama queen
Better than planned
A working condition that can lead to illness or death
TiVo is stalking me
Use the poop, Luke
Little “g”
Teamwork
Nintendo rocks
WWLLD
In which The Boy foresees the punchline
Bad words
Sex, daisies, Miley Cyrus, and me
Writer poised to take the intertubes by storm
The sound of magic
Review: Nim’s Island
The internet, advertising, and young minds
Review: Balls of Fury
Review: Bee Movie
Review: Dan In Real Life
Laughter is the sound of love
Review: Juno
Birthday parties are serious business
I used to think 90 wpm was pretty fast
Things I’ve learned
Review: Stardust
Not that I needed more proof that we’re perfect for each other even setting aside the fact that we have the same taste in children
Charlie Bucket, born 1957, not pushing up the daisies
Not for sale
Paying the taxman
Typing non-standard characters in Ubuntu/Gnome
Heritage
Lovely and talented feet
One less
The Girl
In which I do not LOL
Writer screencast
The eye of doom
Footnotes plugin for WordPress released
I wear her ring
Payback comes in small doses
I’m suspicious of anyone with three or more children. O, that way madness lies.
Review: Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Boredom, tolerance, movies
Almost 8
He wore those St. Patrick’s day socks for a week
Weather forecast for kids
Review: The Music Man (2003)
Send To Flickr: a Flickr photo uploader for the Gnome desktop (Linux)
What do you think of…
Review: The Fountain
Open house night
Review: Death at a Funeral
Ultimate Recipe Showdown
Badware warning
“Send to Flickr” call for testers
Ariel was a tech geek
A parenting checklist
A little blog housekeeping…
Replacing the High Voltage Block on a Sony 46″ Rear Projection Television
Almost there
The Last Crusade
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
If I were president…
About the Technical Reviewer
How I found my fitness mojo and lost 38 pounds in 6 months
Who are you?
The Dude abides
Bachelor pad
It ain’t fixed unless I’m bleeding
Special delivery
All tucked in
“No Knead” bread is a hit!
Thoughts about my refrigerator and its infernal automatic ice maker
Fido
Big Huge Thesaurus API
Falling through fatherhood
Do you have any tips for a beginning bread baker?
Friday audio zen: Ballroom Blitz
He’s a very progressive 5-year-old
game mod
Meet the fam
Please pardon the dust
Possibly some of the worst marketing I’ve seen
Free and open source database design software
Pro Web 2.0 Mashups
Review: Sweet Land
Review: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
My backup system saved me today
The long cruel holiday break is over… School starts Monday!
Dangers of blogging (for men)
Happy 2008
Note taking with Tomboy
Cure for sleep
5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
Can anyone suggest a good desktop note-taking application?
Bye bye Script.aculo.us, hello MooTools
How to make the coolest brown-bag lunch in class
Good behavior
Google Christmas Card
The Story of Stuff
Wishing for Neverland
Free Rice
Chaos and bean sprouts
Removing Windows from a Dual-Boot System
A year with Linux on the desktop
Sumo means ginormous
At last, our dinosaur/seasonal vegetable hybrid is ready to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world!
Happy Halloween
Love
I married a genius
Do you love photography and can you write?
It’s that time again…
She’s home!
Lessons learned from a month of single parenting
On Monkeys
Cheesetastrophe
Well is she a virgin or isn’t she?
Bedtime in D
Day 12
Once again relegated to a supporting role.
Moving On
School can’t possibly start soon enough
Sampson C01 + Xenyx 802 recording sample
12 chocolate cakes
Friends don’t let friends podcast
Science fiction you should see
Ad firms are trying to change the stereotype of gamers
So… we’re all friends here, right?
I’m thinking The LA Times may not quite understand this whole “intertubes” thing
Want to read a book with me?
Very disappointed by Musician’s Friend
Life ain’t so bad
HourChallenge.com: 1 hour a day towards ending extreme poverty
Is This Man Cheating on His Wife?
Carrots in McDonald’s wrapper taste better to pre-schoolers
Anticipating Awful Babies
Have I offended you?
Stuck in Stuff
Are they here?
Dignity and childbirth
Here Comes the Sun
She’s a Fake!
How do you like Harry Potter?
Advice from children is crafted from the best ingredients: the wisdom of innocence, empathy, sincerity, and love.
An oasis of comfort and happiness
Review: The Magnificent Seven
Queuing for Casey Jr.
Utility is overrated
North Pole
The Art of War
I believe that all good parents are optimists. Who else would attempt the thankless task of turning 2-year-olds into human beings?
Making her musical debut
I think this might be what they mean when they say that no publicity is bad publicity.
24 Hour Fitness cracks me up
On skating in the jungle
Dear PR agents,
What would it take to get me to work in an office again? Seriously?
In which The Boy reveals his comedic genious
Grilled cheese and carrots (with love)
The family business
Zooomr update: down for the count?
Review: Eragon
Whither Zooomr?
On the brink of five
The Zonbox $99 desktop computer
Review: V for Vendetta
She bought the scissors anyway
That’s entertainment
Dear Rookie Web Developer
Review: The Good Shepherd
I guess I’m the straight man in this duo
Screen time tickets
A quiet, beautiful moment
Review: Children of Men
Lunch, moth, Oreos, noodles
Good news!
Review: Stranger Than Fiction
WordPress 2.1.3 disk usage chart
Tuesdays
My mind is filled with silvery stars
Review: Pieces of April
If you stick with someone long enough, you’re going to find some things you don’t like
Seventh birthday party
Pre-flight encounter
You know I’m just some guy, right?
She’s coming home
Homelympics
Review: Long Way Round
An update from the random thought machine
Surly in Denver
Review: Hoodwinked
It was negative, thank goodness
Does the punishment fit the crime?
Snap Preview Anywhere, scourge of the internet
If I think this is funny, does that make me a child?
Justin.tv
Going nowhere, fast (or “Why they should have included booze in that stupid ‘new parent’ bag we got at the hospital”)
50 songs for kids AND their parents (or 50 songs for kids that aren’t utter crap)
Sunset, no mail
My eyes are still burning
Think of the children
Shutdown Day
Four weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the desktop. Part 4: And the verdict is…
Wanted: sanity
Four weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the desktop. Part 3: Oh my God—it’s full of stars!
On the possibility of discussing the possibility of time travel with the lovely and talented wife
Four weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the desktop. Part 2: Down the rabbit hole.
Are these words real?
Four weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the desktop. Part 1: Switching is hard
Reply hazy, try again.
Only his 4-year-old cuteness saves him
Windows Genuine Spyware
This is why I’m married to my wife and not somebody else
HOWTO: Make a PDF e-book from any text file using Open Office
The family that computes together, stays together
I want to see some fracking explosions!
Valentine’s day is effin’ metal
Of zucchinis and hypothermia
Kentucky Girls
Daylight
Is your blogging service offline?
How to give your young children a personalized (managed) email address
Where’d my baby go?
LetterPop, now integrated with Flickr
Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member
Old memories
Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids
Skype brings out the 6-year-old girl in me
Afternoon stroll
Our Daily Miscommunication or Spanking 101 or Perchance to Dream
Review: The Break Up
Review: Little Miss Sunshine
Make a paper monster
Stone soup
The Girl
A comment for the Toontown mailbox
Hug
Snakes on a Plane
The “olden” days
Tips for tiling a small bathroom yourself for the first time
Children of Heaven
TiVo and spaceships
Santa must be a republican
Christmas Eve
Fridays are lonely on the internets…
What sound does a boat make?
Caring is creepy (sometimes)
Santa is coming. And we have his phone number.
LetterPop!
Songs from the Labyrinth
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Karate
Remotely Connected
Changes
It’s that time of year again
0.55 terabytes
Listening
Want to know the best part about Dibs ice cream?
Boy philosopher
I kicked Dell’s ass!
Things she likes
Are jobs in IT bad for marriage?
I’m forever yours—faithfully
The best deal in Lego
Does homework suck?
Cell phones and customer service: it doesn’t have to be this difficult
Musings of a 4-year-old boy
Parental involvement at school
Sir Topham Hat really knows how to rub it in
Visiting from diy.despair.com?
333 books for kids
Searching for cookies
The Elephant Song by Eric Herman
Dear Tooth Fairy
From China with love
Bath time
You asked, lady.
Utata
A trip in the wayback machine…
Jack Black stole my schtick
Cucumbers and Larry
No fear
Fall 2006 catalog
Sweet tooth
What does “sweet pea” mean?
ITT Tech: Give us your tired, your poor, your poets
Lovely and talented (but sometimes hears T’s when there are none)
You can’t protect them from time
Do your kids have ESP?
Learning to write
Overheard: two girls at the playground
Texas Ranch House? Are you insane?
Rock, paper, scissors
Superman Returns
She’s totally on a roll
Brains… BRAINS!
Photodoto.com
The family that pees together…
Those TV guide blurb writers are getting lazy
Milk emergency
The calculator
Being Daddy
Axes and trees
Dropping off Mr. Grumpy Pants at preschool
I feel like I live inside a Japanese game show
Kids have no idea how good they’ve got it
New site design
Me and Cookie Monster, that’s how we roll
Free Flickr Pro accounts
Breakfast negotiations with 5-year-olds
BloggingBaby.com
That fetus is 17?
Another melancholy milestone: the two-wheeler
Feedburner Plugin for Wordpress 2.0
Site update: Feedburner
Tooth update: it’s loose
Truths of parenting
The Kindergarten Journal
What’s for dinner?
Corporate greed run amok
Kicking and Screaming
Seņorita Precoz
Sweetie Pie means I Love You
Her teeth are the teeth of steel
Three Golden Rules
The Magnificent Burden
Go ask your Mom for breakfast
Why do toy manufacturers hate parents?
Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Welcome, Call For Help viewers
Welcome, Popular Photography readers!
A moment of arms race zen
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Hypnotized by blue flashy lights at the Microsoft conference
Christmas shopping
What’s on the news?
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A bed of her own
Strangers vs. the Spooky Eye
Cheaters are mighty fine eatin’
Seeking Holy Cow at the local mega-store
World of Warcraft as sparkling dinner conversation
The best part of Halloween…
Mass production of the letter B
Happy Halloween
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Songs of destruction and woe
Cingular GoPhone service about to be cancelled?
How to Backup Your Photos
Is Netflix worth it?
Yesterday, at lunch
Today
PBS Kids Sprout
Nerdiness, I embrace thee
The shadow of food
At home dad-hood
Parents Behaving Badly
I ate the cracker
It’s that time of year again
Nintendo Revolution
Cussing on the playground
First day of school
D-O-R-K
The 40 Year Old Virgin
A room of his own
Did I just say that?
Dogs and vomit soap
I love you this much
Dungeons & Dreamers
No house work?
What would you say?
My daughter, food critic
Excellent cinematic experience
The Hero’s Journey
It’s not fair
45 minutes
National Sex Offender Public Registry
lightproofbox.com
Run Lola Run
Manganese! Gesundheit.
Another actual conversation
earth.google.com
Who have I become?
Candlequake
Supergirlypretty shoes
You dare to defy ME?
The ground’s a-shakin’ again
Fiery sunset
Earthquake @ 8:44am
That’s one hairy lobster, Missy
Toddlers: not the people you want making long-term plans for you
Hide and seek
Are we there yet?
Excuse me, do you have the year?
Just playing
Training wheels
I love the sound of flushing in the morning. It sounds like… victory.
Episode III: Revenge of the Nerds
Just Wait Until Your Chaotic Evil Father Comes Home
Letting go
How to get a dog
Street lifeguard
Candy is dandy but Flickr is quickr
Pickles
Warning: Bridge is out
Potty training, redux
Do you hear an echo in here?
Some out of the ordinary children’s movies
But I grew up watching Bugs Bunny — a cross-dressing, wise-cracking rabbit
The challenge of working from home
I’m father to a nut
Shots
The Spring time change is killing me
Hell
Google Maps is all kinds of great
Into the great unknown
Breathing
Life and death
I’m dancing and I don’t care who knows it
Nostalgia exploitation has jumped the shark
Making friends
When I was a kid…
Happy Easter
Grumpy boy
The things she says
Sex offenders’ likelihood to repeat crimes debated
The end is near
This episode of potty training brought to you by the letters “H”, “L”, and “A”
Leave a message? With you? Are you mad?
80 lubs
Check me out, I’m a “blog father”
Things I was thinking about on my birthday
Why?
So that’s what new teeth look like
Frustration
Terrible twos
“Only You”
Radios
Electric Version
Thinking of Woodie Guthrie at 3:15am
You owe me one
Picasa 2 vs. Nikon View vs. Picture Project
Splat
Shaun of the Dead
Sleep — who needs it?
Daddy, I used the potty — I promise!
Cake
The freedom of digital photography
My D70 has left NY!
Breakfast conversation
We’re [pause] watching [pause] a [pause] movie [pause]
Musical chairs
Camping out
What happened to Daddy Types?
New camera
This is probably one of those posts that will embarrass him later
The SSA sucks
Sleep debt
18,507 registered sex offenders
Welcome
99 rooms
Schuyler’s monster
Sorry, this website is on a coffee break, please come back later
Who am I?
Youth
Lying to The Children, Acceptable Situation #47
Lions and tigers and snails, oh my!
Google and Answers.com
Starbucks density
GenX dad
Farmer’s market + White Noise (the movie)
RIF
The rain has cleared
Rebel uprising
Cellphones ’should not be given to children’
Genius
Extreme Dodgeball
43folders
That’s my girl
I love being Santa Claus
Christmas delayed somewhere in Ohio
Kids 3, Dad 0
Grilled cheese
Mistakes
Caveat emptor
On aging…
Compliment from a comment spammer?
Scrapbooking, part 3
Kids vs. computers
Scrapbooking, part 2
Rotating house
The long weekend
Scrapbooking
Some people would take the blue pill…
Kids vs. sleep
That’s my boy
Printing from Linux to a Windows XP shared printer
Rebel Billionaire
The Darth Vader of poop
Serious playtime
Notice: Crime and terror have been defeated, people. Nothing to see here.
Phone call
Heroes
Kids are messy
Weekend update: Daughter 2, Dad 0
7am
Bummed
Strangely sentimental
The Gimp experiment
Tickles
2004 election
Gimp
Not it
Costumes
A thousand curses
1248
The Zoom Quilt
Gaim Message Blocker plugin
Living life
Babies change everything
Parental ineptitude
Sesame Street rules
If my life had a soundtrack it’d definitely have a sad “Wa wa waaa” sound
Kids vs. Electronics
Dealing with comment spam
Thoughts on misbehaving
My daughter, the critic
Over and out! Roger!
Ouch
Lost time
Serious hair
Sunday at grandma’s
Has Been is good!
Knots
Life and children and death
Turn it up
Smart Susie
A bath? AGAIN?
The gift of sterility?
Logic
It hurts when I do this
Photo Matt cosmos
Doom 3 impressions
Go to Dairy Queen
Tempo
I’m a princess! With pants!
Firefox 1.0 Preview
Batdad
Sandbox
Has Been
Rebirth
Cuteness is nature’s defense mechanism against parents
Ignorance is bliss
What hath man wrought?
Perfect timing
Shut up and write!
Word Statistics plugin for WordPress
Thinking of me…
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program…
Strung Up (via Flickr)
Blockbuster online
N
Kerry Renews Call for Rumsfeld’s Resignation
Comment spam
Digital photo printing doomed?
Blair, the Martha Stewart of Creative Correction
Fold-up infant cabana
Set my people free!
Dance recital blues
Alas, poor Pancho!
Canon EOS 20D
Sleigh bells
Out of the frying pan
And the gold medal goes to…
Baby photos from Flickr
Little Eric
Bob, Katie… shut it!
Hi, BoingBoing
Hi, Kuro5hin
My son the talker
Nail polish and Barbie dolls
Child seats urged for air travel
Blogging heals
Games don’t kill people. People kill people.
Tricycle building
What, no juice?
The 909
Oh, fickle girl!
Best. Picture. Ever.
The paternity leave joke
Folding shirts
Scooter’s Jungle
Wiggles break up
Is wilted lettuce more important than your kid?
Vacation, day 5
Poor kid
This is nothing like a group hug
Vacation, day 3
Vacation, day 2
Vacation, day 1
Picasa
Imported old entries
Erik Estrada begs for swift death
No matter how bad it gets…
Tantrum Redux
French press
Four new Internet Explorer exploits (yes, more)
Faceless surgeons armed with razors
This is normal?
Discovering his shadow
Vote delayed to protect America?
Boingo Boingo Boingo
Programming joke
“Your imagination airbrushes”
Update: Electronic Waste Recycling Act (Sher, SB 20) postponed
Where is West Darfur?
A smile for a blurry daddy
Iranian woman ‘gives birth to frog’
Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 (Sher, SB 20)
VB.NET upgrade “wizard”
Those pesky numbers
I finally saved Neverwinter!
Father’s day
Yeah, right
No limits
Surfing on a Rocket
You talk, it types?
Cookies
Female Gamers Wanted!
Weekend without code
Last cookie
Smart guy
How about Tuesday?
Tickles
Cookies vs. hate
Don’t hurt yourself, kid
Good eater
Um… Thursday?
Jack and the beans
Pre-school
Pre-school
King Kong
Take cover!
Popsicle family
Why?
Happy birthday!
Gone Fishing
Dance class
Hot fudge
Babble
Singing at lunch
Taxes
6th sense
What did you say?
Screwy?
Hi… Daddy?!
Yumm