Usually a 3 or a 4 on scale of 1 to 4 where 1 was the best. That’s consistently what I got in the ‘Exercises good self discipline’ category of all my grade school report cards. While I regularly had everything else rated as a 1 or 2 – you know spelling, math, reading, gets [...]
As I mentioned in a tweet, I worked with my son in realtime to pull data from the LEGO website. He wanted to see all the pieces counts for products. So we built this ruby script together to pull the data and parse it with Hpricot. Took about 10 minutes.
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<code>
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘open-uri’
require ‘hpricot’
# URL below [...]
We now own over 300 children’s books. I’m sure that sounds like a lot (and it is), but we read between 10 and 15 books a day to our kids. 300 books is only about a month’s rotation worth of books. Lately I’ve realized there are some great lines (both funny and poignant) in these [...]
I love demographic trends and this one is an interesting one.
While pundits across the board tried to figure out the origins of a more conservative public for the past 30 years, I haven’t seen any real compelling reasons yet. But in the most recent newsletter from market research company New Strategist, they argue that [...]
Kyle Munson, the Des Moines Register’s music critic, has his review of the Justin Robert’s concert on Sunday at the Blank Park Zoo online. My observations from the concert are:
They need to setup the stage in a place where there is more shade. 5 p.m. during the summer sun is not the optimum time to [...]
I decided to take my son to see the Drake Relays Parade this year. I never went to the parade while attending Drake due to it happening downtown Des Moines and being rather early in the morning for a college student. But my son and I needed to get out and he enjoys parades; the [...]
Writing. I read blogs of certain people on a regular basis – without taking in their RSS feed. Blogs like, the achenblog on adventures of Solo Dad and all the Preshrunk entries make me come back for more.