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Brooklyn Decker’s Funny Tweet About Pregnancy
Brooklyn Decker tweeted something funny about pregnancy.
English: Brooklyn Decker in June 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pregnancy sounds awesome if for no other reason than to sneak up on unsuspecting gents in a bar & grinding on them "Surprise! Full of baby!"
— Brooklyn Decker (@BrooklynDecker) July 2, 2014
Note: As far as we know she was just making a joke, not an announcement. Just so we’re clear.
Also, for what it’s worth, Ms. Decker’s tweets are often amusing, and she seems like a nice person. For example, here’s an article about her involvement with the 2014 Special Olympics.
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Google Exec Wants People To Watch Their Kids Graduate On Their Phones
Buried within a New York Times article about cloud storage for businesses is this rather odd quote from Amit Singh, the president of Google Enterprise.
Android logo via Wikipedia
“You’ll be videoconferencing with someone, while editing a supply chain document with someone else in Hong Kong, while he watches his son graduate on his phone,” Mr. Singh said, noting, “you’ll need a lot of infrastructure to do that.”
(emphasis added)
No disrespect meant to Mr. Singh, but, um, what the hell? Is he actually comparing “editing a supply chain document” with a child’s graduation?
What Mr. Singh was attempting to explain, as far as I can tell, is how a businessperson (I’m going gender neutral here; apologies to Caesar and any other intelligent non-human creatures of the future) could make use of the Android operating system on multiple devices at once. But if his idea of quality parenting is not only working while your kid graduates but squeezing it in as if it were just another activity in the stream of a business day, I have to disagree. Strongly.
Google, Microsoft and Others Delve Deeper Into Cloud Storage for Businesses – NYTimes.com.
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Space News!
NASA detects mysterious signal ?240 million light years away from Earth (Sploid/Gawker)
Forms, Forms, Everywhere The Forms
Forms, forms, and more forms. Parenting is all about the forms.
Maj. Gary Ruesch completes medical forms as his patient draws. (Photo credit: Official U.S. Navy Imagery)
Not ALL. But there are a lot of forms.
(A note on the photo: isn’t it cute? It’s from here.)
School forms. Camp forms. Other forms. School and camp are the big ones. They won’t let your kid go to either place until you submit a medical form, which requires a visit to the doctor, which requires making an appointment to take your kid to the doctor. Not saying these are the hardest things a parent has to do. But it does require some scheduling.
I’m going to make a form to help parents with these forms. Sound a little meta? Perhaps. But I think it would help me, and if it helps someone else as well, that’s even better. Pay it forward and all that.
As usual, I barely have time to write this post before I need to do dad stuff. The form will come later. But I will do it. Hopefully.
Article About Mentally Ill Kids
This New York Times article about mentally ill kids is troubling. Well-written, interesting reading, but troubling, especially if you are a parent. Caveat reader.
Seeing Sons’ Violent Potential, but Finding Little Help or Hope – NYTimes.com
Crown Royal Gift For Father’s Day
As part of Crown Royal‘s “Your Hero’s Name Here” program (this year named for Green Beret John Wayne Walding), we were offered the chance to give the gift of a bottle of the good stuff to a local hero. We picked Richard, a veteran as well as a proud father. Here’s a picture:
To help us out, please retweet this post or this one, which also features a photo of Richard, who will enjoy his Crown Royal responsibly.
Having sampled our share of Crown Royal’s various varieties, we can honestly say that we were glad to give Richard this gift because we know how good the stuff is.
Happy father’s day, Richard! Hope it’s a great one and enjoy the Crown. Reign on!
Songs About Bad Dads (Daddy Issues)
As a former contributor to The A.V. Club I vaguely wish I had contributed to this list of Songs About Bad Dads. Just in time for Father’s Day, of course. Then again, I haven’t heard of most of the tunes on here, so maybe I wouldn’t have been the best writer to tackle this assignment, despite my penchant for all things Daddy Issues.
This isn’t a song, but nobody has more daddy issues than Scott Summers, aka Cyclops.
There are the obligatory indie-rock bands (The Mountain Goats have two entries) but also some surprises, including, I shit you not, Shaquille O’Neal, who apparently recorded a song Biological Didn’t Bother, which I have to admit is a pretty good title. (By the way, because Amazon truly has everything, if you decide you really love Shaq’s song and want to sing/rap it yourself, you can get a karaoke version. Yes. Seriously. For reals.)
Make your way through the full list (it’s not that long) and you will be rewarded with a tune titled Daddy Wasn’t There from Austin Powers in Goldmember, performed by the fake band Ming Tea. It is, as the A.V. Club writers point out, rather catchy, kinda funny, and just a teeny bit sad to those of us with daddy issues of our own. Here’s the video (Bonus: you get to look at Susanna Hoffs.)
The Austin Powers’ movies are, in their way, filled with daddy issues, particularly Scott and his father Dr. Evil.
Click the link below to check out the full list of Bad Dad Songs from The A.V. Club. Here’s a tip: be a great dad and no one will write one of these about you. And happy father’s day!
Bad dads: 19 songs about shitty fathers · Inventory · The A.V. Club.
