So I traveled back in time and the following conversation happened.
Me ’14: Hey, I’m you from 30 years in the future.
Me ’84: Right. You look more like Dad from the past.
Me ’14: Yeah, that starts to happen. I just wanted to tell you that I just saw the preview for Star Wars Episode VII. … Read more
Wait, who has whom wrapped around whose finger?
Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. This little guy shooting baby smiles at me is one of the things I’m thankful for.… Read more
All-boys’ road trip! The Little Green Men are on the move!… Read more
Today on the drive to school, it seemed like every other tree we passed unloaded all of its leaves on us at once. I got Little E giggling by saying “Leaves! ATTACK!” in a silly voice every time this happened.
After I dropped him off at school and went to work, I had a little bit of downtime while waiting patiently for software to install, and doodled this for him on half a sheet of paper. I then folded the paper over and addressed the “outside”…
TO: E
FROM: DAD … Read more
Little E was showing me a comic book he wrote and drew today – man, where does he get that? Anyway, he was narrating the whole thing to me, and it got more bizarre, because there was a magical omelet that was sending evil creatures back to the nether world, and man, if the heroine of his story (that’s an interesting choice) lost that omelet, she was in deep trouble, and…
“Buddy?”
“Yeah, dad?”
“How are you spelling omelet? Does it start with an O? As in the breakfast made with eggs?”
“No, dad.”
“Is it an amulet?” (and I spelled it out)
“Yes!” He seemed amazed that I had guessed it.
“Whew,” I said, relieved. “Now the whole story makes sense!”
Although I will admit, an omelet that can ward off evil sounds pretty good right about now.… Read more
When I was a teenager, my friend Rob Heyman and I used to geek out over a computer game built around exploring and navigating the solar system, The Halley Project. The game would give you cryptic directions, as if issuing instructions to Charlie’s cosmic angels, as to where to go. Sometimes it would be “go to the third moon of Jupiter.” Sometimes it would rely on more fine-grained space knowledge: “go to the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere.” (In which case, of course, you’d go to Titan, the large moon of Saturn.) You’d complete each round of tasks by returning to the “base” of the Halley Project, Halley’s Comet itself. Yeah, sure, land on a comet. The game was criticized by some educators and scientists for mixing its science with science fiction.
Those critics evidently couldn’t see a mere 28 years into the future. A robot launched in 2004 by the European Space Agency has now put a lander on a comet. … Read more
“So I hear you’re looking for the baby pictures?”
Don’t get between Obi and his babies. Don’t even try.
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