My six year-old son and I were relaxing yesterday evening, playing a game of Crazy Taxi 3 on the computer.  It’s a fun driving game with three “worlds” made to look like Los Angeles, New York City and Las Vegas.  The object is to pick up passengers in your cab and get them from point [...]

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Do you ever have one of those moments where two totally unrelated slices of experience in your life intersect in a trivial, yet noticeable way?
Take, for instance, the song my kid has been singing over the past few days.  He knows it as the “Yonkers” song from Wall-E. (The first 74 seconds are [...]

I saw something in today’s Washington Post which made me realize that we’re ushering out something quite particular to New Years — but only for the past 10 years.
It was a picture — they’ve had the same (or a similar) picture of a reveler enjoying the hoopla that is ushering in the new year.  Every [...]

List on the — no, wait. different day, different meme:
* I’m feedburnin’! I’ve finally decided to get on the Feedburner bandwagon. This is my first post since I changed over to it (and redirected my original RSS feed to it), so hopefully everyone who is already subscribed to the old feed is reading this just [...]

Just a few thoughts from the mind of Shiny:
*  I’m still trying to determine how and why I’m so delinquent in writing blog entries here — while I can Twitter out entries several times a day.  Have I become one of those post-blogging 140-character ADHD short-attention-span types?  There’s a plugin I have for Wordpress which [...]

Our five year old nearly cried himself to sleep tonight.
The facts were these: Tuesday evening we, as a family, went to our synagogue to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. It’s a happy holiday which celebrates the completion of the reading of the Torah. You can read more about it in yesterday’s “List on [...]

There are iPhone apps out there which will cycle through metropolitan area traffic cameras.  socKs decided to load some of them as presets on her phone and see if we can catch ourselves on video!  This is our first one — taken a while back when we were in DC for a Nats game…

We’re on [...]

It was a regular Sunday afternoon. My wife socKs and I were sitting at the dining room table having some lunch. Our five year old had already finished and was in the next room, sitting on the floor with the laptop having some computer time. He was busy on the Playhouse Disney website, a favorite [...]

* For the past month, every single blog entry I’ve written has had a line prefacing it about how neglectful I’ve been in blogging regularly. Now I’m realizing that I’ve been neglectful in posting about how neglectful I’ve been.  This is certainly not a great thing. Also not great: I’m not responding to your comments [...]

Today was a very long day for me. And for Avi. This morning was business as usual. But tonight was his school’s “Back to School Night.”
Our routine, as many of you may have read, involves us leaving the house slightly before 7:00.  I drop him off at school for the before-care program at around 7:30 [...]