Google maps rules - fun things to do with kids

After seeing Google Maps at work in a lot of great applications, I knew that a friends "list of things to do with kids around SF bay area" should be a google-map.

link: things to do with kids

Moving is done

In celebration of a successful move, I'm linking the Onion's moving day tips.

I think the last tip captures the surprising difficulty of moving every one of your belongings safely and quickly: For the love of God, don't ever move.

The new house is almost done

The new house is almost built, and it's interesting to see how it's starting to compare to the original artist's rendition.

They've just barely taken down the scaffold, and still need to finish trim/roof/landscape, though.

Public Opinion: The news is unreliable at best

When dropping my daughter off at school this week, my wife saw a reporter with camera crew approaching parent after parent, exchanging only a handful of words and then moving on.

When they reached my wife, they asked if she was for or against the plan for the President to address the nations schoolchildren with his "stay in school" message. On hearing that she supported the message, the reporter said "we already have that; we're trying to find an opposing opinion" and moved on.

I think they're missing the point.

Doesn't it misrepresent the public opinion to show 1 supporting and 1 opposing view on the news if you have to wade through dozens of supporting views to find that lone dissenter? The report should be "overwhelming majority of locals support the plan", not "here's one supporting/1 dissenting view".

I bought a house

They tell me it will look like this when they finish building it:



It'll be fun to snap a picture post-construction and see how well the artist's rendering matches the actual finished product.

The family

A picture of us from Skye's kindergarten graduation:

Happy Birthday, Missy

My wife's little American Eskimo dog had a recent birthday. I don't think she enjoyed her party hat.