The Little Boss

The Setting: Ben eating yogurt.

The Line: "Daddy! NO! No yogurt shirt! Wear bib!"

The Proof:

Dash monitored Ben's eating carefully to make sure he properly obeyed the order. 

Ahhh, toddlers. Gotta love them. And their compliant fathers.

Four things

I'm getting an iPhone for work, which means I may need one of these covers:

Or maybe this Helvetica one. It depends on exactly how hipster-poseur I'm feeling at the time. 

Have you seen Simon Beck's snow art? He finds some undisturbed snow and stomps around in it for hours to make these designs. Amazeballs:

Each of those little divots is a footprint. I KNOW. 

Speaking of unusual art, check out these pancakes:

He's also done Star Wars, fractals, organs, and a whole slew of other themes. Oh, and this portrait of Alfred Einstein. Yup. 

Lastly, did you know that s'more pie was a thing? YES.

I just received a s'more kit in the mail from my dad and stepmom (love you guys!) so a third s'more-fest may be in the works for the future...

Library propaganda

The Pirates and I have a little thing where we raise an arm in the air and shout, "To the library!" Uber nerdy, I know.

I thought it would be fun to make a little poster for their bookshelf, using superhero-meets-Steve Thomas's-awesome-arcade-propaganda as inspiration. (Look familiar? We bought five of them for Ben's man den at our old house.)

No, they can't read it yet, but let's be honest - 90% of the stuff we give our kids is really for us, am I right?

Any critiques before I get it printed?

P.S. If you want a copy, click here for the high res original, and here for a high res poster sized (18"x24") version.

Window shopping

Check it out - there's a version of Settlers of Catan for kids! Now I'm impatiently waiting for the Pirates to turn five so we can teach them to play.

How cool is this restored vintage typewriter? Not that I'd ever use it, but look how preeeeeeeetty! From here.

Also pretty - this silhouette necklace. They have a double version for two children, but I think I'd rather get two singles and stack them.

Super groovy honeycomb shelves! They look awesome but would make my CDO* side go crazy with the inability to find things. (The lamp is kind of great too, no?)

Enough spending imaginary money...now back to studying for a final tomorrow. Sigh.

*Definition of CDO:

NSFW

So, have you read about this yet? Mao Sugiyama underwent elective genital-removal surgery and then served his junk up as the main course in a special banquet for six guests, who paid $250 each.

True story.

[Fair warning: that link includes graphic photos. Just sayin'.]

I feel a little weird that one of my first reactions to this story was, "$250? Really?" I mean, all other objections (of which there are MANY) aside, that seems like an awfully low price for braised genitalia, no?