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Our son made this song up while lying in bed on July 4 when he was 5. We listened and recorded it over the baby monitor. He'd never sang it before or since, but he does like to hear the recording. One of our friends suggested we share it for the 4th...so here it is!

Oh, the video is some random thing I found on the intertubes. It's from sUPERED. http://blip.tv/file/931317/ Isn't Creative Commons-remix licensing a beautiful thing? Uh, yeah. And thanks, sUPERED!

"sUPEREDS 81st weekly internet video for may 24 2008 called " the funny american does a slow flag dance" sUPERED becomes one with the usa flag then does a dance of joy enjoy smile"

The Mighty Eggplants' Last Game

2009-06-10T00:26:00.000-07:00

The Mighty Eggplants' last game

Easter Egg Bunny Hop at the Woodland Park Zoo

2009-04-13T00:21:00.000-07:00

Easter Egg Bunny Hop at the Woodland Park Zoo

Isaac plays (and chats) in the back yard

2009-04-06T02:51:00.000-07:00

If you want to spend 5 minutes with Isaac in the back yard, your wish is granted.

Mamas say the darndest things

2009-03-15T12:35:00.001-07:00

"Isaac! That's not a toy!"

said Melissa, scolding Isaac for fiddling with...
...a Nintendo Wii video game steering wheel controller.

"Well, it's expensive electronic equipment!"

said Melissa, trying and failing to defend herself, after Dan, Zeb and Isaac burst into uncontrollable laughter.

Apple sez jailbreaking iPhones is illegal and should be banned - Boing Boing

2009-02-14T21:27:00.000-08:00

Apple may be following the law correctly here. This is just the latest in a long line of examples proving that the law has reproducible bugs and needs to be patched.

Apple sez jailbreaking iPhones is illegal and should be banned - Boing Boing

Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking. This marks the first formal public statement by Apple about its legal stance on iPhone jailbreaking.

Apple's iPhone, now the best-selling cellular phone in the U.S., has been designed with restrictions that prevent owners from running applications obtained from sources other than Apple's own iTunes App Store. "Jailbreaking" is the term used for removing these restrictions, thereby liberating your phone from Apple's software "jail." Estimates put the number of iPhone owners who have jailbroken their phones in the hundreds of thousands.

Regardless of the validity of Apple's legal position (IANAL, check Groklaw if you want an informed legal opinion) Apple is NOT doing the right thing here to be lobbying to keep bugs in place.

I say this as a long time Apple individual user, customer, evangelist, and enterprise user.

And I say this as a citizen of the USA, and of the Internet, and of the world:

Apple, cut it out!

What Apple should do is NOT lobby to make it illegal to run whatever software you want on a computer you bought from Apple. (Of course Apple has no responsibility to support you if you go hacking on their software and muck it up.)

Freedom to tinker!

Free culture!

Quiet Please notes from Zeb

2009-02-14T10:18:00.001-08:00

Quiet Please notes from Zeb
Originally uploaded by fullerbecker

Kids go to bed. Parents have friends come over, play Rock Band. Kid very politely delivers letters of complaint.

First note: "I can NOT sleep. Ssssssssh. Thak you. From Zeb." Second note: "Hey. Im tired. Dudes. From Zeb."

Isaac framed by Zeb

2009-02-08T16:28:00.001-08:00

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Originally uploaded by M and B

Knights & Brigands at Magnuson

2009-02-08T16:02:00.001-08:00

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Originally uploaded by M and B

Told you Margaret got a pic or two of them. Check out the whole set to see more pics of Zeb and Isaac at Magnuson, too!

Makeda pours a beauty

2009-02-08T16:00:00.001-08:00

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Originally uploaded by fullerbecker

Mel had this beauty poured for her at Makeda Coffee the other day. Makeda is less than a quarter mile away from our house.

Flickr

2009-02-08T11:38:00.001-08:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Throw rocks into water, observe ripples

2009-02-01T21:01:00.000-08:00

Met up with Margaret F at Magnuson Park for an afternoon of play and picture-taking.

The old classic "throw rocks into water" proved its appeal remains intact even for these newfangled kids.

Magnuson Park

We also saw a pitched swordfight between armor-plated knights and fiercely menacing brigands, but I didn't get any pictures of that. Margaret did....

MLK Parade in Seattle

2009-01-19T16:39:00.001-08:00

For the 4th year running, Zeb wanted to go to the MLK march.

This year's was considerably happier in mood than years past!

Just a few pics - a mini-panorama set of the start of the march, plus one of the marchers ahead & behind us, then one of Zeb.

See Seattlites blinded by bright sun in January...

MLK Parade 2009

The Animal Detective

2009-01-18T21:15:00.000-08:00

New Album 1/18/09 9:12 PM

Board games and card games our family likes to play

2008-12-24T11:43:00.000-08:00

Some of our favorites these days are:

Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne for the grownups.

With the kids (4 and 7): Apples to Apples, Jenga. Monopoly Junior, Chutes and Ladders, Candyland and Hi Ho Cherry-O. Othello and Connect Four. I'm probably forgetting a few... Oh yeah, card games: War, Uno, The Great Dalmuti.

If you live in our neighborhood, Berserk Games has a great store on Greenwood that's open even in the snow. Highly recommended! We have to rein ourselves in to stop from clearing out the place. (Ahem, don't tell the kids, but we're about to get Blokus, too.)

If you want other people's lists, see this SF Gate article: Board games for family fun

The range and quality of board games out there today far surpass anything we may have grown up with as kids, and in spite of the competing allures of online gaming, there is still something elementally satisfying about the roll of the dice and the click-clack of little wooden counters.

Also see the comments on the WilWheaton blog post that we found the SFGate article at:

Luckily, there are a lot of games that are fun for nerds like me and normals like my wife and kids, games like Settlers, Carcassonne, Spooks, Last Night on Earth, Apples to Apples, and classics like Sorry and Risk. But if you're not as seriously OCD about games as I am, you may not know where to start when you're contemplating a family game purchase.

Happy gaming....

More snow days

2008-12-21T13:02:00.001-08:00

Second (and Third) Snow

First snow of the winter, 2008-09 edition

2008-12-16T00:36:00.000-08:00

First snow