I let junior (17 mos.) watch 1.5 hours of TV a day. Lately his schedule has been a bit off so he’s watching a wider variety of TV (It used to be High Five and Sesame Street but with his sleeping habits changing the shows have changed too. I’ve gotta say there are some incredibly [...]

If I’ve learned one thing from recent entries (here and here) it’s that Dells aren’t inherently cheaper than Macs. By the time you make the computers roughly equivalent they run about the same price. This is a very old argument, I remember people saying the same exact thing when I bought my first Mac Classic [...]

My wife is convinced everything I say is either a lie or wrong. I’m pretty sure this is the natural order of marriage. So when I returned from a long upstream Smokies hike complaining of ruptured tendons, slipped discs, torn ACLs, and general weariness she thought I was milking it. “No way!” said I (whilst [...]

First and foremost, I am thankful for Kellogg’s All Bran Cereal, because when one reaches a certain age regularity becomes a bit more iffy without that daily bowl of fiber. I am thankful that my kids have in-laws, who have graciously invited them to spend Thanksgiving at their house, so I was not stuck in [...]

REAL WORLD VIEW Billy Gates just delivered his keynote yesterday, at the Consumer Electronics Show (Note: this is CES, not CSI). His delivery was as buggy and as technically flawed as his company’s products (but this time,it was funny!). ((Sorry, Bill. You really should get a Mac, you know. Your keynotes will have fewer breakdowns, [...]