Archive for April, 2006

Web 2.0

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

It seems like the entrepreneurs have acted on Gina’s tutorial faster than I expected…

Kim’s teeth

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Gina used to have a recurring dream where her teeth would crumble in her mouth and fall out. Apparently, this is a common dream. Her mother used to have the same dream. And, shortly after Kayla went away to college, she called home to say that she had the teeth-falling-out dream, too.
A [...]

Farmer, Farmer, Let Me Down

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Over the last few months, I’ve been struggling to understand the “Attention Economy”. Gina explained it to me the other day.
There’s a children’s game called “Farmer, Farmer, Let Me Down.” I had never heard of this game. I “googled” for it, and found nothing. Gina, I should note, lives in a [...]

Thank you, Spike

Monday, April 24th, 2006

My children play a game called “Jinx”. In this game, if two people say the same thing at the same time, then the first person to call out “Jinx!” renders the other one mute. The “jinxed” party can no longer speak until someone says their name out loud.
The other day, as I was [...]