Friday, May 26, 2006
Feature Fatigue
Why waste time ranting when Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe has so considerately done it for us?
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Parenting LOTD
I found this from a link at the previous post. I'm not an all-the-way vegan and I still eat tuna and sashimi, but I thought this would be a good resource for all of those parents out there who are trying not to doom their kids to a diet of pizza and chicken nuggets.
Blog Ho
I admit it. I read almost the entire article that Steve Pavlina wrote on how to make money from a blog. There's a lot of useful stuff in there without a lot of hype. It was a good antidote to all of the crazy "EASY $$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!! WORK FROM HOME!!!!!!" crap that's out there. I won't name names but you people know who you are. (cough, cough, craig's list, cough, cough)
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle-literally.
According to researchers at the Broad Institute based out of Harvard and MIT, humans and chimps split apart from each other millions of years ago, and then, just like Kim and Eminem came back together for a brief evolutionary second before splitting for good.
The tiny little popping sounds you hear are Creationists' brains collectively exploding all over the country.
The tiny little popping sounds you hear are Creationists' brains collectively exploding all over the country.
Online Childcare Search Engine
Thank you Mandy of Little Star Buddies daycare! I put a post on Craig's List a couple of days ago asking about good sources for info on daycare in Salem. This site, www2.childcarecircuit.org has a pretty decent system where you fill out a brief on-line form and get listings of places with openings for daycare. Pretty cool!
I think I will go ahead and put together a Squidoo lens for Salem parents though.
I think I will go ahead and put together a Squidoo lens for Salem parents though.
9 dollar MP3
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
The Real Parent Trap
This is one of those things that really makes me want to do more database/type web design. I spent about 2 hours today looking for daycare via the web. I can't think of a better topic for a database driven website with clean nav and dynamic pages. Instead , every site I went to was a candidate for "Web Pages That Suck".
So I think I'm going to have to do a new Squidoo lens on Salem daycare. At least until I can develop a site that 1) gives information on what one should ask a potential daycare provider 2) puts the cards on the table about rates and 3) provides solid information about openings, hours, and locations. I want a site that functions like bostonworks.com. I want to be able to type in my address, my cost range and the age of the child and the hours I am looking for and then get listings that fit my criteria along with e-mail links to the providers.
Stay tuned!
So I think I'm going to have to do a new Squidoo lens on Salem daycare. At least until I can develop a site that 1) gives information on what one should ask a potential daycare provider 2) puts the cards on the table about rates and 3) provides solid information about openings, hours, and locations. I want a site that functions like bostonworks.com. I want to be able to type in my address, my cost range and the age of the child and the hours I am looking for and then get listings that fit my criteria along with e-mail links to the providers.
Stay tuned!
Parenting LOTD
Eureka! A childcare site that "gets it"!
I've spent the past 3 days looking for affordable daycare for Chloe for Mondays Thursdays and Fridays. After googling and looking thru the yellow pages, I resorted to a list that I had printed out when I was in my 1st trimester and basically I'm reduced to calling every name on a 3 page list since there is no website I can find that will match seeker to provider. So far, about 1/3 of the numbers I called are either not in service, or shoot me into a caller ID system. The next third have been answered by people that barely speak english and the rest are either booked up or don't take infants.
So, thank you, littlestarbuddies.com for posting your rates, your hours, location, and basically all the information a parent is looking for when they try to arrange child care!
I've spent the past 3 days looking for affordable daycare for Chloe for Mondays Thursdays and Fridays. After googling and looking thru the yellow pages, I resorted to a list that I had printed out when I was in my 1st trimester and basically I'm reduced to calling every name on a 3 page list since there is no website I can find that will match seeker to provider. So far, about 1/3 of the numbers I called are either not in service, or shoot me into a caller ID system. The next third have been answered by people that barely speak english and the rest are either booked up or don't take infants.
So, thank you, littlestarbuddies.com for posting your rates, your hours, location, and basically all the information a parent is looking for when they try to arrange child care!
Monday, May 15, 2006
Thursday, May 04, 2006
It Figures...
My housekeeping heroine is really a man in color coordinated 1960's vintage hostess' clothing. I've been a stay-at-home mom for about three weeks now, and I have yet to dust the picture frames while wearing heels and a colorful flower print shift. Not that I feel like a failure, but it's ironic that the cultural imprint that we all seem to aspire to would be so perfectly personified by Brini Maxwell.
On a side note, if you feel the need to "get out with the girls" and you don't want to mess up your manicure by bowling, try this. for a change. You might even win a ham!
On a side note, if you feel the need to "get out with the girls" and you don't want to mess up your manicure by bowling, try this. for a change. You might even win a ham!
A Beautiful Oxymoron
If you really, really, don't like the clash between your plastic candy colored streamlined computer and your Zen temple or Early American themed decor, then try one of these out.
Radio Dharma
Links to teachings of the Dalai Lama. Also, a collection of MP3 recordings of Tibetan chants and teachings of the Dalai Lama in both Tibetan and English.
"Spit and Baling Wire"
A repair foreman at the MBTA realized that he could tape a 5 cent hairnet to the intake filters on subway trains so they don't get clogged with melted and re-frozen snow. It should save the T $126,000 a year in repairs. It's a great idea, but it begs the question; Why weren't the motors fitted with internal filters by the manufacturer in the first place?
Monday, May 01, 2006
A Modern Modest Proposal
Okay, by now I'm sure you've realized that a large portion of our country's population likes, well, large portions. Visit any shopping mall, grocery store, sporting event or schoolyard and you will witness large herds of obese human beings thundering across the landscape, eating everything in their path, staggering their way towards a life sentence of heart disease and diabetes. Seating has become too small for most of us on public transportation. Airplanes have fallen out of the sky because, although the passenger list was regulation, the average weight of the passengers was not. Ferries have capsized due to the combined tonnage of their passengers shifting suddenly to starboard to get photos of surfacing whales. We stand a good chance of making ourselves extinct due to a deadly combination of eating a high-fat diet and driving to the supermarket in our high volume, gas guzzling SUV's to buy MORE food to shove down our already engorged gullets in a futile attempt to conquer the stress of being overweight, unhealthy and in debt up to our ears because of car payments and high gas prices.
So, you can imagine my relief, when I read the article in this month's Wired about the New Zealander who built a boat that can run on human body fat. Here is the perfect solution to most of society's problems. We will use our own ass fat to power our fat asses around.
So, you can imagine my relief, when I read the article in this month's Wired about the New Zealander who built a boat that can run on human body fat. Here is the perfect solution to most of society's problems. We will use our own ass fat to power our fat asses around.
Going with the flow, part 2
Good news! Chloe went to the doctor's last Wednesday and had gained a whole 2 ounces! I, on the other hand, have gained 2 pounds. She's eating about every three hours and if I time it right, she's usually done with her "dinner" feeding before 9pm so I can watch the "Sopranos" in relative peace.
And now, a word about our sponsor,
I really wish I knew how blogger.com came up with the constipation remedy ad that you see above this post.
Hecho en China
Interesting article on Zhou Tiehai, an artist in China who doesn't paint himself, but farms out the work to his assistants who create the actual art.
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