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Ran across this today via Kottke, and find it both impressive and inspiring. But then, I’m a Lego nerd. Designer/programmer Tyler Neylon started with a base set of 50 Lego pieces (actually 58, counting some of the really tiny ones), and set out to see if he could come up with at least 50 unique…

In light of Monday’s post — which still fills me with warm fuzzies — I thought I’d share with you two of the drawing games we Boyetts have spent a lot of time playing. It’s great for kids to just sit and draw on their own, of course. But we enjoyed making a family game…

When I was a teenager old enough to pretend to enjoy things ironically but actually enjoying them for reals, I loved watching the old Batman cartoons. (Fat Albert cartoons were also favorites.) The main thing I liked about Batman & Robin? All of Robin’s silly, winking “Holy _______” statements, which I may or may not…

If you’ve spent much time blogging about religion or belief or the lack of it, you’re aware of Sam Harris. He’s a neuroscientist who has become well-known as one of the public faces of what’s known as “The New Atheism.” He’s the author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and a…

Wow. I love this idea. LOVE IT. When I was a kid, I spent hours doodling. I drew highly detailed spaceships, space stations, and the cold, rugged landscapes of undiscovered planets (complete with alien outposts). I drew elaborate circus scenes and cityscapes and skyscrapers. I had a very developed imagination and a modicum of artistic…

The goal of Meet a Dad: Profile a dad and let him share his fatherly wisdom with us. Some of these dads will be well-known in certain circles; others will be largely unknown outside of their immediate circles. Doesn’t matter, because I think just about every father has as much (or more) to share than…

A couple weeks ago, we discussed the importance of letting your kids be weird, based on a passage in Alexandra Robbins’ new book, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. In the book, Robbins conjectures that teenage outcasts often are poised for more success beyond high school than their more popular peers. She calls this “quirk…

File this under “things your kids will think is hilarious”: According to this article in the Daily Mail, the photographer David Slater was visiting a national park in Indonesia. He left his camera unattended. There was a group of crested black macaque monkeys nearby. What happened next is something I may have once seen in…

I originally posted this at jasonboyett.com a few months ago, but thought it would be worth posting here, too. If you already read it there, forgive me the re-post. ———— Within the last year, both of my kids have bought their own iPod Touches after saving their money (my wife and I covered the last…

Interesting opinion piece last week in the Austin American-Statesman. Ashley Sanchez writes about the obvious impact out-of-wedlock fatherhood and divorce have on the amount of time a dad is able to spend with his kids. The Pew study found that 94 percent of fathers who live at least part of the time with their children…
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