January 2012
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WatchSo this here is a video of a five month old giggling like a goon at her 4-year old sister wearing her grandmother’s bizarre idea of a Catwoman costume while the 4-year old sings “I Got the Moves Like Jagger,” a song which sounds like a song Stephen King would make up as part of a story but which I understand is a real song.
For your enjoyment.
The Daddy Complex said he likes us →
… and a dozen other Daddy blogs. Thanks, TDC.
I noticed that I’m the only one dumb enough to use his name in the url. That one’s gonna bite me someday soon.
The Daddy Complex: Update On My "Bedtime Threat"... →
thedaddycomplex:
As you know, I created a method for keeping my boys in bed at bedtime. For those that don’t know, it’s pretty simple. I pick six random (and inexpensive) toys and place them on the boys’ dresser. Throughout the bedtime routine, I remind them that after I leave the room, if I have to come back in for any reason other than an emergency, one or two of those toys will be thrown...
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gum (gone)
ryanwilson:
my four-year-old: can i have some gum?
me: do you remember the rules?
four-year-old: just chewing, no swallowing.
me: right.
(five minutes later…)
me: hey, where’s your gum?
four-year-old: sorry.
Let’s all welcome sportswriter extraordinaire Ryan Wilson to the unholy order of Daddy Tumblrers.
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“It is ridiculous that my future is in question because of how other people feel...”
– Andrea La Ronde, an Iowan who wants to marry her fiancee, but fears Iowa Republicans will push a constitutional ban on same sex marraige.
Her partner says that after worrying about the cloud hanging over them, they both got to “a point where we just didn’t care anymore. If us being happy...
Movies I or My Wife Saw in a Theater This Year
X-Men First Class
Harry Potter Part 2
Puss in Boots
The Muppets
Winnie the Pooh
We just finished our tape-delayed Golden Globe Awards wrapped up, and yeesh: Looks like we picked a good year to be pregnant and culturally unaware.
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“We should never sacrifice our core principles. But, we must ask which hills we...”
– Dr. Oran Smith, president and CEO of the Palmetto Family Council in South Carolina, talking about the Republican field.
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Watch“It’s definitely been really tough, especially at first, after finding out [I was laid off] and some days breaking down and crying that you got, you know, your wife working and you can’t really provide anything for the future of the child. I mean, it’s pretty much y’know, whatever you can do around the house to contribute. You just kinda feel not much like a...
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“We don’t see people browsing the aisle labeled 332.1572 because that frankly...”
– Wisconsin librarian Kathy Klager, quoted in “Libraries Rethinking the Dewey Decimal System.”
The OCD and champion of esoterica in me in me mourns this, but the person who cares about user experience loves it.
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AnneMarie Burgess of Minnesota sent this bit of...
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“The mainstream media in Nigeria has run its course; its years of courage and...”
– Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of SaharaReporters. I remember reading basically the same thing in (translated) South Korean messages after the death of Kim Jong Il — “mainstream media” and all. And it’s essentially what you heard from the political and sports blogospheres...
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“Over the years, we have built a relationship based on values and conviction with...”
– The editor of SaharaReporters, AKA “Africa’s Wikileaks,” talking about why citizen journalists contribute. Note that he says it took “years.”
Blerg
I appear to have left my beloved three-year-old Kindle on the plane last night. I haven’t mourned a device like this since the 2003 iPodotron incident. (I enjoyed pop culture references then a great deal, apparently.)
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Rick Santorum could get a Newt endorsement if...
shortformblog:
whoa! According to Rick Santorum-associated officials in South Carolina, if Newt Gingrich drops out of the race anytime soon, he would likely endorse the former Pennsylvania senator’s (and longtime fan’s) campaign.
however … Even though Newt is totally looking like a dog in New Hampshire, don’t look for him to drop out anytime soon — he’s polling relatively decently in the...
