Hazel just sat on her chair, picked up a small book called “Numbers” and read it aloud to herself. “Numbers. One butter, balloons, socks, flowers, fish, leaves, shells, snails, bees, stars.” (#1 is a butterfly.) She gobsmacks us very regularly at the moment.
This morning she asked for hommus, so I made some and gave it to her. OWP.
As I tweeted recently:
Happiness: on a playground swing, my daughter next to me on hers, swinging in sync, both saying “whee”.
Love this gently Mac-bashing piece from The Onion Video News. The very good on-screen graphics would have taken someone a long, long time.
Welcome to the new year. Here are some web design tips to get you started.
If you’ve ever chased an achievement (pick up 10 medals, reach point X, die in a particularly embarrassing way) on a game, you need to play Achievement Unlocked, in which the entire point of the game is to unlock all the achievements. Enjoy heartily.
Hazel watchers out there, know ye that she can, at 16.5 months:
– say ~170 words and understand more
– recognise a rainbow on my screen and go to find her book on rainbows
– eat with a spoon without always spilling everything
– build many blocks into a stack (7 is her record so far)
– make the sounds of a sheep, cow, dog, cat, parrot or duck
– say “eight” when parked on my shoulder and I say “pieces of”
– stand on parental feet for a dance
– turn in a circle and fall over dizzy when being read the book about the “rosie ring”
– demand paper and pen (“draw!”) when she wants a good scribble
– throw a ball (or anything hand-sized) with some force
– play the piano on my iPhone and her little crocodile xylophone (“ding-ding”)
– give kisses to mummy and daddy at bedtime and whenever else she feels like it
– remember that nana will be coming in a couple of days time
– wave like a crazy thing when she figures out that someone is leaving
– smile like an angel
The Australian internet filter is doomed to failure. Here’s why, in technical-but-not-too-technical terms, from the always reliable Ars Technica.
My new Threadless design is up for critiquing. Feedback more than welcome, though I just had a little idea for improvement.
So, I had an idea yesterday. Not a big idea, not a particularly clever idea, just a quick joke for a t-shirt really. A zero-dollar bill with Bush as the requisite president. Of course, something like that is only good if it’s original, so a quick Google led me to find that an artist did it (and got noticed) in October, but forgot to change the president’s head, leaving George Washington from the $1 bill in place.
Seems an obvious thing to forget; at least two commenters on different sites suggested that Bush would have been a better choice. Indeed, a dodgy Photoshop version was made (though not printed and distributed by an artist) in December 2007. If you really want precedent, though, head for this effort from 1978 featuring Uncle Sam.