The Modernish Father

Man, how’s this for lazy? Now I’m repurposing Facebook chain spam for blog posts. It’s really not my fault. Between a basketball game, fighting the kids before bedtime, making dinner for ourselves, cleaning up after dinner and watching an episode of Highlander: The Series (The Wife is trying to get me hooked on it. We’ll [...]

This weekend was pretty freaking fantastic, mostly due to the fact that for the first time in a very long time, none of us were sick. It’s amazing how much better sitting around doing nothing can be when no one’s feverish, cranky or otherwise fussy.

Sometimes everything just comes together. And that is awesome. The Wife and I have been wanting to take a vacation for a while now. The last time we went anywhere together (other than a couple quick weekend jaunts to San Antonio and Austin) was way back in 2006 when we spent a couple of days [...]

These are my links for Jan. 19th through Jan. 26th:

Ronald McDonald looks to expand empire overseas
There was a time not so long ago when U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's was viewed by European consumers as the advance scout of American cultural imperialism, but the now the chain is going to invest over a $1 billion to renovate its existing locations in Europe and build 240 more.
Tags: eu business mcdonalds food

Rangers unveil the ugliest batting helmet in history
For years now, the Texas Rangers have had trouble settling on their primary team color. First it was blue, then it was red, then blue again, and then word leaked last fall that they'd be going back to red. This chromatic identity crisis reached its logical conclusion Friday, when the Rangers unveiled a new uniform set featuring a truly magnificent stroke of idiocy: a garish two-tone batting helmet that's blue in the front and red on the sides, back, and top.
Tags: baseball stupid rangers

Wikipedia may implement editorial review policy
The English version of Wikipedia appears ready to introduce a system that prevents new and anonymous users from instantly publishing changes to the online encyclopedia.
Tags: net_issues wikipedia

Embarrasing place names in the UK
If you're not thrilled about where you live now, at least it's not Crapstone.
Tags: funny uk travel tr

Paper beats rock, glass beats hawk
Evolution in action as a hawk dies after smacking the window of a local restaurant.
Tags: animals deaths bryan

Feedburner needs to get it together
A dead-on analysis of increasing troubles that have plagued Feedburner since Google acquired them. What was once a great service is no longer reliable – a major liability when you consider how and where so many are using RSS now.
Tags: technology business google net_issues rss feedburner

New staff finds White House stuck in the IT dark ages
Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials find themselves inheriting a jumble of outdated, and sometimes inoperable, technologies at the White House.
Tags: technology government united_states presidents

Amateur paleontologist charged with theft
Making sure you know where you're digging is important. Just ask Nathan Murphy, who's part-time dino-hunting gig has landed him a heap of trouble with the state of Montana.
Tags: history science crime montana

Video: Obama’s Legoland Inauguration
All hopped up on hope? Giddy with change? Think there's no way Obama's inauguration could be any more awesome? You're wrong – it could be done entirely in LEGO.
Tags: video 2008_election democrats lego presidents

Heinz jerkin’ the gherkin from ketchup labels
After 110 years, Heinz is removing the delightfully simple tiny pickle from its ketchup labels because some marketing moron thinks sales will pick up if they slap a big ol' tomato on there.
Tags: business advertising food

Meant to write a recap of our weekend (which actually didn’t turn out too bad), but instead I started reading about Japanese professional baseball on Wikipeda. Now I know a whole lot about yakyu, but I don’t have much in the way of a blog post. Oh well. In the end, I’ll probably get more [...]

Yesterday was a sick day. Not for me, but for The Girl. I just stayed at home with her. There was a lot of laying on the couch and watching Teletubbies. We mixed in some naps too. It appears that bread was consumed at some point during the day as well.