Archive for October 2011
Getting noticed
I was in the tandem drive-thru line at my local McDonald’s, having just ordered my Egg McMuffin and Diet Coke. A tandem drive-thru is one in which there are two speakers to take customer’s orders and two initial lines of cars that funnel into a single line after the speakers. As a result, customers must…
Read MoreBest to-do list ever
I love this list more than I can describe. It’s so good. I want to be friends with the person who created it. I think I’m going to try the first item at the Patriots game this Sunday. There’s just enough crazy at an NFL game for people to believe that I might be drinking…
Read MoreThis video made me laugh, but it strikes fear in my heart as a father and teacher, too.
My two-year old daughter can take my iPhone, turn it on, switch off the app that I was previously using, swipe three screens over to her selections of apps, and choose one. She’s been able to do this for more than a year. And she doesn’t use the iPhone very often at all. We use…
Read MoreFatherless. Thanks a lot, Transformers.
I want to put this out there before I stuff these feelings away once again: Now that I am a father, I can no longer make excuses for my father. His perpetual absence from my life was unconscionable, and though I will deny this in the light of day, I have probably been driven as…
Read MoreI deny all knowledge of her outlandish accusations
Little did I know that my sister would so badly impugn my reputation on our brother-sister blog. She makes me out to be a complete brute. I may have to rethink this blog, but based upon her newfound enthusiasm, I suspect that there’s no stopping her.
Read MoreFirst carrousel ride
The first time my daughter saw a carrousel, she cried. The second time she saw a carrousel, she cried again. I thought it would be years before she ever boarded one. But while she and Elysha were in New York last weekend, she rode her first carrousel in Bryant Park, and she didn’t cry the…
Read MoreWomen need not consume
Companies are free to market to any segment of the public that they’d like, but this just strikes me as an especially bad idea. Why so blatantly alienate half of your potential customers?
Read MoreWhat do lobsters and cul-de-sacs have in common?
I like it when perceived extravagances and status symbols are proven to be not so extravagant and rather artificial. A century ago, lobsters were so plentiful and inexpensive that they were routinely fed to domestic servants and other low-wage workers. The servants detested these “cockroaches of the sea” so much that their employment agreements often…
Read MoreOur favorite video of all time
Someone taught our two-year old daughter to dance, and it wasn’t us. In the midst of shopping with Elysha this weekend, the right song came on, and this happened. Where did she learn to do this? Seriously.
Read MoreTears of joy
My wife reacted similarly when I told her about my first book deal. I’ve been trying to make her cry ever since.
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