Sunday musings
About a month ago I was starting to recognize (OK, Robin was pointing them out) that I was getting a tad burnt out. I was getting to bed after 1am, sometimes 2am (and up at 6); the laptop was starting to occupy increasing amounts of family time (and if the laptop wasn’t nearby, then the [...]
Wii friend code
No thanks to the many technical tools I used to try and find a Wii, we happened to get one last week when Robin got a call from a neighbor who fortuitously bought one from a Toys R Us employee with loose lips. (The neighbor overheard the clerk offer to sell one to a [...]
Loving my new camera
A Nikon D50 was waiting under the tree for me this Christmas, and I’m in love. We’ve been a little stir-crazy the last few days (thanks to pneumonia, asthma attacks and various other kid-related nuttiness), so we bundled everyone in the car and headed north to the “Chicago Botanic Garden”:http://www.chicagobotanic.org/. If you’re in the Chicago [...]
Sittercity update
Last month, I “wrote”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/11/05/sittercity.php about how impressed I was with “Sittercity”:http://www.sittercity.com/. It’s a clean site, focused on an important task (helping parents and babysitters find each other), and they’ve successfully built out a terrific community and what I presume is a very healthy business.
It’s interesting to me that this is the prototypical social networking site, [...]
Seeing the forest
“This post”:http://www.jorydesjardins.com/pause/2006/12/entrepreneurial.html by Jory Des Jardins is one of the most meaningful posts I’ve read in a long, long time.
No sense in summarizing it, it’s a great read all around, and it really resonates for me. Thanks, Jory, for posting it.
Breasts on a plane
“This”:http://mamaknowsbreast.com/2006/11/mom_kicked_off_plane_for_breas.php is just ridiculous. (Originally spotted over at “BuzzMachine”:http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/11/20/a-mob-of-moms/.) By contrast, I recall flying to Palm Springs with Robin and Ricky (then about 6 months old). We flew on Southwest (rapidly becoming my favorite airline, by the way - that’s another post), and I was struck as we began our initial descent: I was [...]
I want a Wii
Mark’s “review”:http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/16/wii_first_impression.html just cements for me why I want this console: it’ll be fun to play with my kids. I haven’t owned a game console since Sega Genesis circa 1995. And before that, our only game console was an Atari 2600. Nintendo was never a staple in our house: no Zelda, no Mario… only periodic [...]
Quote of the year
Robin and I took the better part of the last couple days to do some long-overdue cleaning around the house. At one point this afternoon, the boys’ bathroom was cleared out so I could scrub the floors and the sinks; our bathroom was in a similar state. Our bedroom, however, was mostly done, and the [...]
SitterCity
When we first moved here nearly 6 years ago, I was fortunate to have a co-worker whose daughter was eager to babysit. She was 13 at the time, and she turned out to be perfect: responsible, engaged, and she genuinely loved the kids. Of course, last year she went off to college, and now that [...]
Startups and “normal” lives
Scott Converse, CEO at ClickCaster, wrote a “thought-provoking piece”:http://scottsphotolife.blogspot.com/2006/10/early-stage-startups-normal-lives.html the other day about being involved in a start-up as a 40-something.
