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As I ate my cold k-ration beany weenies last night (hey, I LIKE beany weenies), I ruminated on my last post. All told, what’s it really like to be A Man Called Da-da, or a parent in general? It’s like being in combat, that’s what. Take this little test…

I almost blew it. I had just gotten focused on my workload for the day, with about 8 things I REALLY needed to get done before the end of the day. Just as I was getting started, my 8-year-old daughter walked into my office, having just finished her shower, her hair still wet, and wearing [...]

This topic is so obvious yet I have yet to write about it. It may be partly because it is so close to home, for my boys.  I was blessed to have my mother and father in my life completely and lovingly, until they died in recent years (at 89 and 90).  They loved me, [...]

Parenting can sound repetetive. Here’s a list of some of the things I say every day. I took the time to listen to myself recently and realized rather quickly I say the same things every day. I’m basically a broken record of reminders, corrections and tired incentives. Some call it nagging, but I prefer to [...]

Dad, do you ever get scared? I remember asking my father that question one evening before bedtime.  My world was scary even without the constant news of inflation and the threat of nuclear war with the now-dead Soviet Union.  I had an upcoming test for which I hadn’t studied and there was a Neanderthal who [...]

So how do you go about picking the top 5 American cars of all time? Do you choose the great classics, like the Marmon and Cadillac V-16s? Do you go back into the antique era for worthy but largely forgotten models like the Curved Dash Oldsmobile and Mercer Raceabout? Do you embrace muscle cars like [...]

So you think that 42″ Vizio you just picked up at National-Big-Box-R-Us and hung in the living room means you’ve finally joined the ranks of the cool kids?  Think again.  The latest and greatest trend is to install an incredible flat-screen outdoors.  Nonsense, you say.  I would have agreed with you not that long ago.  [...]

Republished with permission of gamepeople.co.uk game reviews. Alan Wake Rating: T Platform: Xbox 360 Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Alan Wake, despite its technical prowess, still feels half-a-decade old. But rather than holding it back, these limitations make the game more intense and believable. The more time I spent with Wake, the more I was impressed [...]

I’ve said in the past that Toy Story 3 + Anything = Awesome. This week, I put the Milton Bradley game, Buckaroo, to the test. To help me, I enlisted my trusty examiners, also known as my wife, my eight year old daughter and six year old son. So on a Sunday night, we pealed off the shrink wrap and started evaluating the game based on the fiercely loyal and lovable character, Bullseye.

The Summer Olympics may come only once every four years, but the (tiki) torch lighting of your own Beach Olympics can happen any time — as long as you’ve got sand, water, a volleyball net, a plastic flying disc and that age-old desire to pummel your buddies in contests of strength and stamina. “Competing in [...]

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of one of the biggest blogs around, BoingBoing.net. In fact, I’ve been reading that blog for a couple of years now. Who knew, that I would get a chance to review Mark’s new book, Made By Hand. I initially thought the book was about making fun items at home, and [...]

More than 5 million American businesses earn less than $5 million annually in gross revenues. These businesses account for more than 40 percent of the Gross National Product, yet they have largely been ignored in federal government’s stimulus and financial reform efforts. How are today’s businesses to survive and thrive at a time when the [...]

In the war against distracted driving, banning of texting while driving has been a major battle. But now, research from the Auto Club of Southern California has found that after an initial drop, texting while driving appears to be on the rise 15 months after California’s texting ban was implemented. The auto club says the [...]

Fiat Currency. Global Reserve Currency. Gold Standard. You might have heard terms like this, but what exactly do they mean? How is what’s happening in Greece related to what’s happening here and why should I care? We’re going to use some ink in the next several articles laying out the basics of the ongoing financial [...]

I recently saw a T-Shirt sporting the British Petroleum (BP) Logo along with the slogan ‘Bringing Oil To American Shores.’ It’s easy to poke fun at BP lately. After all, they’ve had one hell of a second quarter. Money just can’t buy that kind of publicity. Throughout this whole fiasco, it’s become pretty clear that [...]

Quickly! Who do you think has faster rising numbers of work life balance dissatisfaction—men or women? Well, if the research from Jeremy Adam Smith’s terrific book, The Daddy Shift, can be trusted (and I know it can), men represent the fastest growing demographic of those who feel work life and family life are out of [...]

There was a big drop on Wall Street last week. You probably heard about it. It seems that our stock market, the Dow, the heart and soul of our nation’s market economy, dropped nearly 1,000 points in one afternoon before rebounding a bit before the close of the day. This sort of thing doesn’t happen [...]