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What Astronauts See
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Jason Boyett
This is fascinating stuff for Google Earth nerds like me. It’s footage shot from orbit, with some of the highlights narrated by Dr. Justin Wilkinson, a scientist with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch this with your kids. I totally want to be an astronaut when I grow up. If only for the eye…
For Father’s Day, You Get $106.49
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Jason Boyett
photo © 2006 Kris Arnold | more info (via: Wylio)Father’s Day is less than two weeks from today. If you are an average dad, according to the National Retail Federation, you can expect your family to spend $106.49 on your gift(s). From the Chicago Sun-Times: Shoppers are forecast to spend an average of $106.49 each…
You Can’t Check the Stats on Your Parenting
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Jason Boyett
At NPR, Dave Pell has a great piece (“I Don’t Care if You Read This Article“) about the temptation offered by life in the Internet age — a constant stream of data, stats, responses, likes, retweets, and page views. We measure our success by a complex system of metrics. Anyone doing work on the Internet…
Serving Your Kid and the Cutting of Waffles
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Jason Boyett
When I was a kid, one of the things I loved most about going to my maternal grandparents’ house was that 1) Deenie (my grandmother) would always fix us waffles for breakfast, and 2) she would cut them up before serving them to us. The waffles were great, but the detail of her pre-cutting them…
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