120 foot water baloon

This page has a fun project that you can do with kids.  Using 50' of surgical tubing, you can make a 120' water balloon.

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Father's Day Gift Guide from MAKE

The MAKE: Blog as a post with some ideas for Father's Day.

Mama Jams

This is hilarious!

http://www.funnyordie.com/v1/flvideo/fodplayer.swf

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Perfect Father's Day Gift

I was watching Unwrapped, and I saw the perfect Father's Day gift.  The Tastes of Chicago Ultimate Taste kit gives you a good variety of foods from Chicago.

• Chicago style deep dish pizza


• Eli's cheescake


• 10 Chicago style Vienna hot dogs


• 1 Slab of Carson's Ribs

They will pack this up and ship it across the country packed with dry ice.

Now this is a great way to get some Chicago food when you are out of the area.

WD-40 to the rescue

Our son decided to draw on his window in the back of the van with a crayon.  I tried various cleaning supplies to get the crayon off.  None of them worked.  Later on, I was trying to fix some of the squeaky doors around the house, and then I noticed that the WD-40 can states the WD-40 can be used to clean off crayon.

The WD-40 easily to rid of the crayon, but it left a cloudy residue.  With a little Windex, the window came clean.

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Bedroom Railroad

Here are some pictures of an installation of a model railroad in a child's bedroom.  I would love to do something like this.  I The kids would have so much fun watching an controlling the trains.

What I would want to do is have three connected track loops.  One in each of the bedrooms, and one in the connecting hallway.  I would install a switch in each bedroom which would cause the switch to change so the train would never be switched to that bedroom's loop.

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Technorati Tags: train track, model railroad

5 Second Rule

This article in the New York Times talks about some research into the "5 second rule".  I guess the results show that bacteria gets transferred, even with only a 5 second exposure.

When I was a kid, there wasn't a 5 second rule.  It was either the 30 second rule or "God made dirt, dirt don't hurt".  Maybe if they said a chant like that, the results would have been different.

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Maraka

The real Dora the Explorer:

Welcome

My wife and I are expecting our third child in a few months.  I decided to create this blog as a place to keep track of my thoughts as our family grows.