Sunday, April 17, 2011

Children are in bed. PREPARE TO UNLEASH GAME OF THRONES!

Saturday, April 16, 2011

My son demands I watch while he picks up toys. Somehow he is using the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to his advantage here.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

I expect reparations from Australia for The Wiggles.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

I feel like the small appliance industry really didn't give a shit when they named the food processor.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Sadly I am the king of global data structures in perl.
Plan today: listen to Vampire Weekend until my boat shoes bleed.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

What's the point of tiptronic transmissions? It's like playing Outrun on the easy setting. Get a manual if you want to shift.
The zipcar we usually rent these days is nicknamed Marauder. Unfortunately it's a Mazda 3, which really limits our pillaging opportunities.
Crap, chickpeas and garbanzo beans are the same thing. I could have gotten all my hummus ingredients at Trader Joe's if I'd known that!
Are chickpeas and garbanzo beans the same thing? I feel like I should know that.
Hm just heard Langhorne Slim in a Travelers insurance commercial.
Wikipedia: the best source for television show information ever created. Oh I think there's some other stuff there too.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Just once I'd like to see a kids tv show episode teach the lesson that selfishness can be more effective than teamwork.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Hanging with my sons and writing a dd-wrt wireless bridging howto. A fine way to spend a Sunday morning.
"Let's make a shitty 1970s cartoon, but with Latinos!" - the a-holes who created Dora.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Current goal: watch every Burt Lancaster film.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

So glad I waited on buying an iPad, so that I can now also not buy an iPad 2.

Monday, February 28, 2011

I refuse to believe that humanity existed before the invention of the ziptie.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

I bet another place it's too dark to read is inside a Tauntaun.
Retail price, 3 LR-44 button batteries for $12 toy cellphone? $15.92.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Trying to convince the 3yo that Rice-a-Roni is the San Francisco treat. He's not buying it.
Just ate a big bowl of quinoa mush like a goddamn hippie baby.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Trying to replace myself with a medium-sized shell script.
It's weird how cameras have a 'facebook' setting that overexposes and blurs your pictures.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

I think Lua might be Tcl for the new generation.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Tonight I made banana sweet potato kale baby food. Big hit with the baby.
Turkey bacon is vegetarian, right?
There seems to be an exponential function involved in baby wipe usage when you have two kids.
Giant apartment complexes built on top of giant parking garages is not a livable urban plan.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

"drill a pilot hole first" is advice you should probably apply to more things in your life.
Having children teaches me something new about prioritization every day.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

The cream cheese wrapper told me to make a sandwich with Nilla wafers so you know how I'm spending my Saturday night.
PREDICTION: Tone Loc to die of injuries related to skiing accident. Coroner's report will list cause of death as Funky Cold Edema.
I'm eating the best kind of pizza for dinner: FREE PIZZA!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Spending my Friday evening bathing children and writing a monster OpenVPN howto.
I bet software legal agreements in hell come with infinite scroll.
Testing if ping.fm email posting works yet.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Well hell, if Caltrain is gutted guess I will have to move back to NYC. http://ping.fm/JSkrD

Saturday, January 22, 2011

I see why all these teenage girls have babies - they're pretty much the best dress up dolls ever.
Rainbow Grocery was nice but I think my heart is still with the Berkeley Bowl - mainly due to the produce section.

Monday, January 17, 2011

'The towering Inferno' terrified me as a child. I should watch again to see if that's still true. http://youtu.be/zsRnQQpklPM
Is it weird that I went to change the baby's diaper just now and yelled, "Usul, we have worm-sign the likes of which GOD has never seen!"?

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

When the hell did Comedy Central start ripping off the Creative Commons logo?

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

"Son you've gotten out too many pieces of cheese!" All of a sudden my house is Wallace & Grommit.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Friday, January 7, 2011

SurferBoi23 has the awesomest flickr profile ever, I say: http://www.flickr.com/people/rayj08/

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Quick question: how many pictures of my cat am I supposed to put in my online resume? Can't remember if it's 2 or 3. Thanks.
Look, Washington DC has a separate adorable widdle subway system for government employees: http://beyonddc.com/log/?p=2406

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

I think if I listen to this My Bloody Valentine song 942 more times I might understand why people like that band so much. Ugh.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

How much toilet paper is it cool for your baby to eat off the roll? Asking for an incompetent dad friend.