Iain has just (as in 10 minutes ago) lost his first tooth - one of the lower front ones.  What is the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?

I saw this in the local Asian grocery store's snack aisle, near the Pocky and Pretz.

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This is from the English side of the instruction manual of a small electronic kitchen scale we just bought ( Read more... )

Today at lunch I had a marvelous dessert that the chefs in my building's cafe cooked up.  It was a cinnamon roll, but rolled up with the pastry was a strip of bacon.  It was FANTASTIC.

This has probably been around for a while, but I only noticed it last week ( Read more... )

This is going to be a quick rundown of the vacation we took in July: we went to England for two weeks, visiting lots of family and friends ( Read more... )

We took the kids up to Tahoe last weekend so that they could learn how much fun snow is.  Ria was... not enthusiastic ("what's this cold stuff?  My hands are COLD and WET!  WAAAAAAAAAAH!") but Iain had a great time.  He loved sledding (especially on the saucers) and had a good time in the kids ski class we put him in.  He managed to go all the way ( Read more... )

I'm about to send out a book to someone who requested it from me on Bookmooch
The address I'm sending it to (with the actual address obscured):

Hercules Invictus
110 Something Road
Somewhere, 90210
Attn: Thor the Barbarian

I guess it's not a big enough operation for Thor the Barbarian to have his own mailstop number...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8369296885822803994 - I'm at around 15:35.  Also check out the guy who actually knows what he's doing at 24:15 - I think he was a skydiver practicing a routine.

Edit: And I don't even know Python.

Last night Mona and I took advantage of a visiting grandparent (Mona's mother) and went out to see "Jumper".  The book "Jumper" is one of my favourites, so I was very interested in seeing what they'd done to it - it's impossible to fit a novel into the running time of a movie, so I was expecting some changes.  I have to say that I was quite ( Read more... )