February 28, 2006

Business Travel With The Kids: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others...

A great tease of an article in the NYT today about how many parents take their kids along on business trips. There's the author mom who took her one-year-old on a book tour to New Zealand where the publicist who'd...
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Posted by greg at 8:31 PM | Comments (2)

And Suddenly The Whole Ferrari Enzo Crash In Malibu Becomes Clear

The mystery of the Great Ferrari Crash has been the talk of the 'Bu for the last week [Remember, The 'Boo = Bugaboo, The 'Bu = Malibu. Still with me? Greeeat.] A failed Swedish video game designer named Stefan Eriksson...
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Posted by greg at 3:53 PM | Comments (0)

D'Oh! Dope Dad Dopes Up Kid During Daytime

So some clueless dad who apparently can't read a label inadvertently gave his daughter nighttime cold medicine after lunch, and --duh--all but knocked her out for the rest of the day. He just posted his sob story on dadcentric and...
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Posted by greg at 3:29 PM | Comments (1)

Rocky Mountain Cry

New dad James is one of the bloggers at Business Week's Working Parents; his daughter's three months old and has hit the dreaded "colic" stage. That's the stage where the kid cries for apparently no reason, and parents try every...
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Posted by greg at 2:27 PM | Comments (0)

Tsotsi: It's Freedomland-Meets-Jersey Girl In Soweto

Tsotsi is nominated for a foreign-language Oscar, which is why you may have been seeing banner ads for it on the NYTimes website. That's all I'd ever heard of it, anyway. Tsotsi means 'thug' in some local Soweto dialect, and...
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Posted by greg at 8:46 AM | Comments (1)

"Rokke" Is Danish For Stingray, Rocking Chair

When he first designed it in 2004, Thomas Pedersen originally named this rocker for the animal whose shape inspired it, the stingray, which is called the "Rokke" in Danish. Which is pronounced "rock." Get it? Rokke chair? Rocking chair? Anyway,...
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Posted by greg at 8:10 AM | Comments (0)