Baby’s first Christmas is coming! Yay! Except… he’s too young to know it. So we’ll be joining in a silly tradition: picking out presents for him that are just things we’d buy anyway. Believe me, I’m not grousing about gifts–in fact, Christmas seems more meaningful this year, with a new baby in the house, than …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Weighing in on Tiger Woods
Of all the foolish and speculative things said over the weekend about Tiger Woods, the worst was something I caught out of the corner of my eye on some cable network (Fox News? MSNBC? When it comes to the tabloid-type stories, all the cable networks seem about the same). Some pert nag of an image consultant …
Droolworthy iPhone Apps (Literally!)
In Slate, Michael Agger writes about how the “wooden-toy crowd” is embracing the iPhone as a device for toddlers: Most parents try to walk a more subtle, self-serving path: seeking out “educational” apps. Developers are on to us—there is a lot of kiddie crap lurking in the iTunes store. You pay 99 cents for some …