The golden books are great for toddlers. I also have this book:

Someone needs to make a “robots” cut of Wall-E that removes all the humans. The first half hour and the last 10 minutes is some of the most beautiful, heart-wrenching stuff, made all the more so because it’s coming from robots.

Merida vs Arlo is the Horizon Zero Dawn mod I didn’t know I wanted.

This challenges my existing feelings on educational apps, because I tend to prefer the ones with concrete “levels”. Things like Metamorphablet or Endless Reader. Spell a thing, click a button, and when the level has finished you’ve learned something!

Terrible super hard choices:
Incredibles v Wall-E
Finding Nemo v Inside Out
Aladdin v Mulan

Having watched Lady Bird and I, Tonya back to back, I felt like the mother in Lady Bird was worse than Tonya Harding’s mom. Tonya’s mom was physically and emotionally abusive, but the movie made it clear that 1) She knew no other way to show her love for her daughter and 2) She knew that it would push her to be a…

For product decisions, I have two words: The Wirecutter.

Yeah, what games you’re allowed to play is the make or break for these services, and GeForce Now’s Steam partnership seems to be the best bet.

Most of my notes start off easy to read because I’m paying particular attention to my handwriting. But the longer I’m writing, the worse my handwriting gets as muscle memory kicks in.

This is the overall concept of lifestyle creep distilled to just coffee.

I’m terrified for Minneapolis. That city is not ready for this.

Shout-out to Caribou for a better Starbucks or Kwik Trip (Kwik Star in Iowa) for a better Gas Staion coffee.

It’s got to be incredibly hard to maintain the canon of Star Wars, even after the purge of the EU into “Legends”. I feel like this kind of cross-multimedia canon at this scale is unprecedented. I think of how carefully the MCU manages its storylines, and they practically ignore the TV shows and completely ignore the…

Since I’ve utterly failed to do this for my first two kids, now toddlers, how do I convince them that getting face in the water is no big deal? I struggle even explaining how to hold your breath. How do you teach a kid to stop doing the thing they barely even were aware they are doing?

Ridley Scott is quickly becoming one of those filmmakers that has very vocal opinions about everything, but I’m rolling my eyes at more and more of what he has to say. Maybe he’s burning up his genius auteur cache for me between mediocre movies and these very vocal opinions.

More than once I would notice that if a kid had a really rough night, the next day they would show marked improvements in some physical or mental skill. Seems like their brain was just working too hard at processing and connecting up what it needed to do the next big thing that it prevented sleep.

That whole episode felt like that bit of Short Circuit 2, to the point where I still refer to Kali’s gang as “Los Locos”.

Play-dough always seemed like a great gift. I fondly remembered playing with Play-dough as a kid.

THE picture already on the fridge. That’s cute. This weekend we just went through his pile of artwork “Hoarders”-style and he had to tell me which ones he wanted to keep forever or throw away.

I doubt you’ll have to wait long for Magic Treehouse. My 4.5 year old is super into them. He seems to follow along pretty well, and the conflicts and suspense of most of the stories aren’t too scary.