Face down! All of you!
Note the position of the babies (and the pig) in my daughter’s crib. Every single one of them is face down. This, in my daughter's mind, is the only way…
I spy a fundamental misunderstanding of the “I Spy” game
While driving up to the Berkshires yesterday, we played “I Spy” in the car. Clara: I spy with my little eye something very far away. My wife and I offered…
I experienced my first taste of anti-Semitism through online poker, and I’m not even Jewish.
Self acknowledged gamer and geek Eisa Melendez wrote a piece for Slate on the challenges of being a female gamer in today’s world, including the horrific levels of sexual harassment…
A true-life space adventure that includes bears and wolves!
Mental Floss posted a piece this week entitled 4 Ridiculous Space Accidents (Where Everyone Survived). The whole thing is excellent and well worth reading, but the first story was so…
Design yourself
NPR’s Robert Krulwich delivered a commencement address at Maine's College of the Atlantic that I liked a lot. In all honestly, his delivery isn’t great. His head is down a…
My wife cannot abide by cheating, even if you could be dead tomorrow.
A cheater has been unearthed. A young Scrabble player was kicked out of the national championship in Florida on Tuesday after being caught hiding blank tiles. A player at a…
Paleontologist extraordinaire
My daughter is slowly developing into an honest-to-goodness dinosaur expert.
I am capable of making serious financial and medical decisions while I am sleepwalking. That, my friends, is productivity.
From the National Sleep Foundation’s website on sleepwalking: It is a misconception, though, that it is important to not wake up a sleepwalker. In fact, it could be quite dangerous…
I already wrote this story.
TIME magazine reports on a funeral home in South Carolina will soon offer Starbucks coffee, lattes and free Wi-Fi for those grieving over their loved ones. Having written an entire…
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