I’m going to add Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper from the wonder years) to my celebrity crush list for the following reasons.

• She played Winnie Cooper
• She grew up hot
• She wrote a book called Math Deson’t Suck
  
• She was in one of my favorite episodes of How I Met Your Mother

Congratulations Danica. I’m not sure who you bumped off yet. Maybe Liz Phair? I don’t know. Definitely not Natalie Portman.

I recorded this video as evidence on our behalf for when child services inevitably stops by to ask why our child has so many bruises.

I think we have a performer on our hands.

It seems that the woman who allegedly poisoned my son with pop music is no longer employed by our day care. Coincidence? I think not.

Let this be a lesson. Do not expose children to crappy music.

Ah, the dangers of leaving your child with a 20 year old for daycare.

So, this evening as part of our dinner conversation we were discussing how annoying it is to have a song you don’t like stuck in your head. At the time I had Paralyzer, by Finger Eleven stuck in my head, which I’m not fond of.

I noted out loud that it was better than having Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” stuck in my head, which it has been oh so frequently of late. It is of a similar quality and catchiness of “Hey Mickey”, but is obviously worse because it’s current.

Brie wasn’t familiar with the song, as she doesn’t play volleyball every week where they play only Top 40 radio stations, so I had to sing it for her.

I sang the first few lines of the song, and surprisingly enough, Hayden joined in with the next few lines, which put a halt on any conversation for the next few minutes as I was both laughing and crying.

I figured he hadn’t heard it from Brie’s radio, and he damn sure hadn’t heard it in my car. I figured since I’ve heard U2 playing on the CD player at day care that Hayden had heard it there, which he confirmed.

I guess I’ll be having a talk with his teacher tomorrow. I’m not sure I approve of his exposure to pop music. Maybe I’ll start sending him in with a CD every morning to make sure he’s getting vital nutrients genres.

Last night my iPod died in my hands. It had been sick for a while, so I suspected this was coming. I felt the hard drive spin through the case and then it just stopped. I tried to resuscitate it with the AC adapter, but I couldn’t get it going again, which was probably for the best. Even if I could get it going again there is a good chance the hard drive would have bad sectors.

It had a good life: daily usage for 2 years, long car trips, and the ranking of my entire library.

I guess I’ll grieve for a while and then move on to a younger model.

Alright internets, let’s talk for a minute.

Everyone likes a good list. It’s a simple and effective way to get traffic to your site, but we’ve got to put an end to this cold war style armament of list items.

Just because you can find 1037 ways to get an article on Digg doesn’t mean that you should. In fact, no, you definitely shouldn’t.

Every time I scroll past your 100+ list of ways to improve my credit I die a little bit inside.

Any “How To” list should be no more than 10 items. In reality your list only contains at most 6 good ideas, you’re just recreating them in very narrow examples.

Here, I’ll help you. Here’s a list of things to do to make a helpful list.

1. Choose a topic.
2. Write down all your ideas for said topic.
3. Consolidate similar ideas into single items.
4. Order ideas by importance.
5. Throw out all ideas except for the top 10.
6. Post the remaining 10.

See? 6 items, and even two of those are superfluous. The end!

Our house is on the market.

Our realtor is there now taking pictures and putting up signs.
I know this because she just called to say that our cat is mean and has trapped her in our basement.

I think we’re going to have to show the house only when he’s asleep.

True story.

I hope he doesn’t kill her. We just got the carpets cleaned.

Recently I’ve seen trailers for the new Will Smith movie, I Am Legend, which I was aware was a classic Sci-Fi vampire novel, but had never gotten around to reading it.

So I decided to pick up Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend for one of our recent car trips.

It’s a very short and compelling read that revolves around how protagonist (Richard Neville) handles being the last man on earth, surviving the nightly attacks by his former neighbors and loved ones who are now vampires, and the daily slaying of the vampires while they sleep.

Neville’s story goes on for years. He begins depressed, angry, and alcholic, but given enough time to accept reality he turns to science to examine and understand the new world around him.

I really enjoyed the story, but don’t see how they’ll be able to make a faithful movie out of it. The majority of the plot concerns how Neville copes with being the last of the human race. Unless they drastically alter the plot or turn it into an action movie, there’s going to be a lot of voice over action going on.

I recommend reading it, but if you want to enjoy the movie, you may want to wait.

This is what happens when I don’t go out shopping with Brie and Hayden.

Jar Jar? Really?

Perhaps I can interest you in a nice Ewok?