This dad spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of his life. Link via here.
Month: November 2009
Time Killer For The Evening
Drifting Afternoon is another simple but visually beautiful Orisinal game where you’re a cat jumping from bubble to bubble.
Links For The Day
Some reading material for everybody:
- Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer.
- 8-Bit Awesomeness: Left 4 Dead For the NES.
- 20 Essential Firefox Tweaks.
- My Font Book is a great way to preview fonts installed on your computer.
- The History Of The Internet In A Nutshell.
- An online clock made entirely in scroll bars.
- Why women are sluts and men are legends (naughty language warning).
- I want to be like mommy when I grow up.
- Make Your Own Steampunk Goggles.
- Infinitey Defined.
- Google Adds Turn-by-Turn Navigation to Android 2.0.
- Killing the beast — an indepth look into why malware writers are evil people who know a lot about software that can’t be killed.
Everybody’s Got A Talent In Life
This man’s claim to fame is that he can hand fart Guns N Roses tunes:
Time Killer For The Day
Bubble Cannon 2 is a fun little game that takes little time to figure out, but a bunch of time to master.
It’s Fun For The Whole Family!
It’s Monopoly HP Supply Chain Edition:
I was taking pictures of a new home for our rental pool here at the office, and found the above in a closet (if I had time I would’ve taken better pictures of the thing, including a gameboard shot — will try later this week). It appeared to be a custom game created by the folks at USAopoly, which lists HP as one of their clients.
Anybody know the history of this and how folks ended up with it? Was it an employee or client/sales piece? All I know is that it sounds like a buzzword-filled good time for the whole family.
I’ll Never Look At A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Book The Same
I used to think the CYOA books were pretty cool when I was a kid, but this graphical and mathematical analysis made me appreciate them even more.
Sucking Down Your Bandwidth
Time to share some videos (see them after the jump).
You Didn’t Want To Get Anything Done, Right?
Couple time killers for you:
- Wake Up The Box is a fun little physics game where you need to knock the little box around and wake it up (walkthrough, if you’re stuck).
- Cubix is a simple game where you just need to collect matching colors and avoid the other colors, but as the game gets flying, it gets really chaotic and tough.
- And for something a little lower stress, Cat Got Lost is a fun little simple game where all you need to do is get the cat home.
Parenting Tip Numero Uno
While this whole article about seven things “good parents” do that screw up their kids is hilariously true, this quote really hit home as I’ve dealt with parents like this:
If you really want your children to learn from an early age, you need to read to them and supply the buggers with as much human-on-human interaction as possible, not park their adorable little butts in front of the f—ing television. TV programs and Infant Education videos use a series of rapidly changing scenes and constantly bombard your kids with new words. With time, their itsy bitsy minds start to filter out most of the information just to help manage the constant barrage, and voila! The kids develop shorter attention spans, and eventually the food service industry claims another life.
A little TV watching is fine (as I know moms are busy or need a break now and again), but if you’re doing it so you don’t have to deal with them or as a replacement for you interacting with them, then you have issues and your kid will have issues.