From someone who’s made a number of mixed tapes, this is too cute to not share:

[From Laughing Squid]

I can tell I’m getting older when my first thought about a topless coffee shop is that I’d we worried about spilling hot beverages, both for the waitresses carrying the drinks and the patrons who may be a tad distracted.

My coworkers are currently over in India training some new offshore engineers. They’ve sent back a number of pictures, but this one really stuck out.

Also, happy National High Five Day.

Hayden and I have already celebrated.

Tomorrow Hayden is getting his tongue snipped at 7:45 a.m., not due to his 3 year old style back talk, because he’s tongue tied. We’ve mentioned this before, but tomorrow’s the big day. The procedure is supposed to be pretty simple and painless, but because it’s hard to get a toddler to stay still they’ll likely be putting him under. We’re anticipating there to be much sleeping and cuddling in the hours to follow. Should conciousness be achieved there will be spoiling, pampering, and Hayden has already called dibs on watching The Incredibles; which is his favorite movie to watch…every 5 minutes. Not that I mind as it’s my favorite of his favorites.

So…I haven’t been active here lately. I’ve already been taken to task about the lack of baby pictures. My free time has been absorbed by things that I can’t really talk about here; also Mass Effect. Eventually I’ll get back on track.

In the meantime, here’s a link dump of all the things that have been awesome recently:

• First, go to Google and do a search on “find Chuck Norris” and click “I’m Feeling Lucky”.
• I would totally use this if I were still in school. Text to mp3 conversion site. I could put all my notes on my iPod!
• Happy 50th birthday LEGO!. We will honor you in our house as we honor you 8-9 times a day by building a robot to get bad guys. I love Google’s image today.

• Cloverfield may be the best movie that will make you vomit, but this soundtrack from the party in the beginning of the movie (with mp3s!) won’t. I wanted to be at the party based on the soundtrack alone even with the inevitable destruction.
• Also, in music news Last.fm started allowing full track plays. It’s still a limited number of plays per track, but it makes listening to music on the internet a lot easier.
• I’ve seen a couple of these images around before, but I love this Guide For New Parents.
• It turns out I may have a future in medicine, but if that doesn’t work out maybe I can fit in with these nice people.

Hayden (proudly): I have a rock in my underwear!

I hope you had a good Day of the Ninja yesterday and that if you saw a ninja you thanked him…actually if you saw a ninja you probably died.

I’ve never understood the fight over whether ninjas or pirates are cooler. It seems like no contest. A ninja would be able to take out an entire army of pirates single handed unless it was his first day.

But then yesterday I told Hayden it was ninja day, and this was his response.

So, there you have it. Children are the ones supporting the pirates, whereas the more worldly and educated adults support the ninjas, as if they needed it.

Ways in which I am old #37:

Somebody removed our “for sale” sign from our yard.
My first reaction was that it was “probably teenagers”.

Please excuse me while I complain about today’s music and how different the media is these days.

It’s been a long day and I needed something awesome, so thank you internets.

Dick in a Box was nominated for an Emmy!

How awesome is that?

For those of you who don’t know Dick in a Box (namely my parents), it is the greatest SNL sketch in the last 10 years:

This weekend we did an early birthday celebration for Hayden while my parents were in town. The main gift was an Aqua Doodle (think Magna Doodle, but with water instead of magnets).

The border of which has basic instructions for how to draw things like a train or an engineer.
Hayden requested that Brie draw an engineer for him.

After which, Hayden took the aqua pen and drew a line from the engineer’s groin down and stated “he needs to pee”.

He really had to go a lot

I’m so proud of him. He’s already funnier and definitely more artistically talented than I am.