Reminds me of a few days ago when I heard a rustling in the kitchen and I yelled "Wolfie! What are you doing?" and he responded "Nothing, I'm just over here leaving the dog's bacon alone!"

I agree with you, but voice control is progressing in leaps and bounds, so it's not as much of a distraction as you might imagine. The only downside is you often have to turn down the music to successfully issue a command.

Got tickets! Sadly, all my options for a babysitter are going too, so... we'll see how this goes.

Well, I didn't finish the story. He found out somehow, not sure how - but later that night her dad called my dad that night and demanded a dowry, and they had quite the laugh.

When I learned to drive stick, I had no idea that automatic transmissions existed. I actually resisted owning one for quite a while, but here we are. My kids are going to have to learn in a stick - grownups who can't drive stick weird me out.

Try a few days. Basically make an exchange - hand over the dog and get a new puppy. The kids will be just as happy. I doubt they've formed as much of a bond as the original owner has in a month.

I've had to hide in a closet not for the reasons you'd think - the girl my mum tried for years to set me up with became my best friend in high school, and one day I spent the night over there (super platonically) because her parents were out of town and her dad came back early and we couldn't deal with the assumptions…

I bought this - and I now own the Mac App, and the iPhone and iPad versions - I'm quite pleased with it and I think it works fantastically well. The extra cool thing is I can see my notes from wherever I can access my dropbox from, if for some reason I can't use my iPhone or iPad. Pretty cool, and very much worth it…

I'm a wedding photographer, ask me anything. I've seen quite a few interesting things in my 9 years. I've shot 3 weddings that cost $250,000+. In each case the famiies were spectacularly wealthy and this was not a significant expenditure by any means. It was like vacation money. Those weddings tend to be quite…

My son's daycare closes at 6:30pm. They charge $3 a minute after that. I've never been late before.

Just to give you some perspective, I found a roach in my kitchen last week. The house is now up for sale.

Things are worth different amounts to different people. For example, I bought Cultured Code's Things To-Do system - I think it was $50 for the Mac App, $20 for the iPad one and $10 for the iPhone one. That's seriously expensive, but it was very much worth it to me. I'm likely to buy this Write Mac version also as I…

I've been quite happy with the olive oil from Trader Joe's. I make the 40 minute drive there roughly every couple of months to stock up.

Serious question: why not $5,000?

Ugh - tone not being conveyed accurately in text strikes again lol - I was joshing too.

25% isn't a tolerance - it's an inaccuracy.

Good for you, Fizzfizz. I went to an all boys high school. It was as bad as you think. Think Lord of the Flies. There were fights every day, basically to the death etc. Well this one kid used to bully me - little things like walking by and slapping the side of my head, grabbing my pens while I was writing and throwing…

Neil Patrick Harris posted something on twitter a couple of weeks ago about shooting with Terry Richardson and it being a bucket list moment. There was a ton of outcry (myself included) and he took the post down. Small thing, but it felt like a little victory. Now we need someone to do something like that about him…

I went to an all boys high school, so you can only imagine the shenanigans. Life is so different when there are girls around to act (somewhat) right for. Their presence is a much needed balance. Which we didn't have. At all.

This is SUCH an excellent article. Sadly, I'm the male parent, and I think it would be super, super creepy and uncomfortable if I initiated this conversation and handed a dildo to my daughter. Mum to the rescue!