Friday, June 22, 2007

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.


[via Geek News Central Podcast]

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Cozi Central


Cozi Central looks like a pretty interesting site.  This site is targeted towards families to help organize schedules and communication.  Cozi Central reminds me of the next generation of the 3Com Audrey, which we had one of.


On Cozi Central you can see and edit the calendars for each family members.  This will help you find times to make appointments for multiple family members.  Also you can use the site to send messages to each other.  You can configure the messages to be sent through SMS or email.


Cozi also lets you share and manage shopping lists.  This in itself is not that interesting, but when you are away from your computer, you can have the list read to you or sent to you as a text message.


You can also sync these calendars with Outlook on Windows



Saturday, June 16, 2007

World's worst Father's Day gifts


The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that lists the worst gift ideas for Father's Day.  I do remember giving my dad bottles of Old Spice.  (I do need to call him later today.)


[via Strollerderby]

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Tired Dog


Today, I decided to check out the Guadalupe River Park, so I packed our daughter into the stroller, and got the dog on the leash, and we headed out.


We ended up walking a little over 6 miles.  The walk was great, but the interesting thing was how these breed traits started appearing acting towards the end of the walk. 


Pointer:



Look... Over there... Don't you see it....  No, you have to stand in the shade to see it, you can't see it while you stand in the sun.


Bloodhound:



Smell.  There in the shade near the bench.  So interesting.... Smells so...  No, I'm not ready to go, this is too interesting


He is not any of these breeds, but was just very tired and hot.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Perfect Father's Day Gift


Tastes Of ChicagoI 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.





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.