My current camera is a Canon EOS 7D. I upgraded a couple of years ago from a 50D because the 7D had more professional features that I could use. It is a fantastic camera. The build quality is great. The image quality is great. It's pretty much everything that I'd want in a camera except …
2013 Clean Out: HP TouchPad: Dead Product Review
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote this two years ago about HP's severely-discounted self-imposed failure that was the TouchPad tablet. I intended to review it thoroughly but never finished the review and never will. I'm posting it here in its draft state for anyone interested. I still have my …
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2013 Clean Out: Surviving the Ups and Downs of Toddlers
This is part of my end-of-the-year cleaning of draft posts. I wrote it when the boys were about two and a half to document some of the chaos. The dinner/bath/tantrum thing still happens but the biggest issue we deal with now is them bugging the sh*t out of each other. Enjoy our pain from …
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Potty Training Days 2 – 4
Our potty training experience has continued over the past few days with the typical ups and downs that we expected. Day two was mostly a blur for me as I spent the majority of the day sick in bed but it appeared to go OK. There were more successes on the toilet and few accidents. …
Potty Training: Day One
We have been casually potty training the boys for about six months now, encouraging it now and then on the weekends and putting together a sticker chart / reward system but not being consistent about it in any way. Adam has been more ready than Zach in the past but neither really showed signs that …
Fwashing Your Hands After Fwatching Fwaffi
The boys are speaking more and more all the time. They frequently use full sentences to express complete thoughts and engage in back-and-forth conversation with us and each other. One of my favorite things is listening to them tell a story about something because you can see them pause and think about what words to …
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On Videos of Wobots Frowing Fings
Last weekend I was surfing the internet as I usually do, reading the news that flows through my RSS feed. I happened onto a story about Google's purchase of Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based robotics company responsible for Big Dog. The article had a bunch of YouTube videos embedded in it of the various new members …
Time for a Retina MacBook Pro
Four months ago I posted about my "next Mac" and how I was 90% sure that it would be a MacBook Air. I don't need a mega-powerful machine and I want something that is light and has long battery life. At the end of the post I mentioned that there was a slim chance I'd opt …
Gates & Doors
Zachary has an obsession. It is all-encompassing and causes numerous problems for him, Adam, and as a result, us. He cannot leave a door or gate open. Ever. As soon as he walks through a gate he slams it shut, usually locking Adam out of wherever he just went but sometimes also closing him into the …
The Cord
Adam is very detail oriented (no idea where that comes from) and notices quickly when certain things are different or out-of-place. I was up in our bedroom putting away laundry when suddenly I heard "Daddy, there's a cord ova thaya!" I turned around and asked him where it came from and he excitedly replied "It came up …
Relatively Ambitious 