inFAMOUS: Second Son PS4 Amazon Lightning Deal
An Amazon Lightning Deal on the PS4 video game inFAMOUS: Second Son. Order quick because they do sell out of these. Basically you get the game for 40% less than the regular price. Details:
List Price:$59.99
Price:$35.99
You Save:$24.00 (40%)
Not bad, eh? Grab it… son. (Or daughter. Or neither.)
Amazon.com: inFAMOUS: Second Son Standard Edition PlayStation 4: Video Games. (Amazon Lightning Deal, may expire at any time)
Ed Begley Jr. in Son of The Invisible Man
Here is Ed Begley Jr. in Son of The Invisible Man, from the sketch comedy movie Amazon Women On The Moon.
I’m posting this because it was referenced in a comment on The Onion AV Club on an article titled “Ed Begley Jr. and Mariel Hemingway tricked into appearing in an anti-green energy video”. Which could easily be a parody headline on The Onion, but sadly is a real headline about something that actually happened.
The story, if you don’t want to read it, is about James O’Keefe, the self-proclaimed “conservative activist” who tries to “catch” so-called “liberals” or other people he doesn’t like doing things that are supposedly embarrassing. You may remember him from such films as ACORN. (It wasn’t called ACORN, but that story got a lot of coverage at the time. Probably more than it deserved, honestly.)
In this case I read the comment that mentioned Son of The Invisible Man and wondered what it was. So I googled it. Shockingly, it is available instantly, if unofficially, on YouTube. You here you go.
son of the invisible man – YouTube.
Ed Begley Jr. and Mariel Hemingway tricked into appearing in an anti-green energy video (AV Club)
How To Find The Clean Version On Spotify
I’m trying out Spotify Premium on my Sonos and so far I love it. I want my kids to have good taste in music, or at least be able to introduce them to bands that they wouldn’t otherwise experience. Regular radio — top 40 — stinks, with very few choices and far too many songs by Ke$ha. I don’t want to force my taste onto my kids, but I do want to share my musical interests with them. Spotify Premium is a good way to do this without buying every album or downloading stuff illegally. Of course, not everything I listen to is free of dirty words. I’m no prude, but sometimes I’d prefer to have the kids listen to the non-explicit version of an album. So how to find the clean version on Spotify? Read more »
Smaller Raspberry Pi Has Us All Excited About Kids And Computers Again
I’ve said before that the tiny little computer called Raspberry Pi could create a generation of tinkerers. Now there’s an even SMALLER version of the Raspberry Pi.
(Note: this photo below is of the original Raspberry Pi, not the new one. But isn’t it cool looking?)
Lovely single-board computer running Linux and capable of HD video with a price-point making it very disruptive. Seen here at TransferSummit 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
So how small is the new Raspberry Pi? It fits in a DIMM slot. In other words, it’s the size of a stick of RAM. Which is very much not big. It’s quite small. Read more »
Let Men Take Care of the Kids
I’m watching a debate on BBC World News Intelligence2 (squared), World of Debate. The topic is “Can the hand that rocks the cradle also rock the boardroom?” Two women are arguing no, two others are arguing yes. Luckily some people are making the point that it is possible to let men take care of the children and run the household.
I’ve been beating this drum for a long time. The question that women can or can’t “have it all” is one that men seem not to have to answer. That pressure can come from women themselves.
Nobody can “have it all.” I don’t have it all. Maybe the supremely wealthy and well-adjusted can come close, but the phrasing itself is unrealistic in any context.
Attitudes badly need to change. Even the most negative members of this particular panel agree that change is happening, albeit at a “glacial pace” according to one of the speakers.
“We’ve got to stop beating ourselves up,” says one woman on the show. (They aren’t putting their names on the screen; I’ll try to look it up later.) I could not agree with this more. I’m not a perfect father, and that has nothing to do with work. Actually, I’m going to correct myself. Sometimes it is about work. If I have a tight deadline for an article that sometimes means ignoring my kids while I pound away at my laptop. I used to feel awful when I did this, and I still feel some guilt whenever it happens. I can only imagine how much worse a woman with a busy work schedule feels. The expectations are so different.
I’ve said it so many times but it bears repeating: there will never be a magazine called Working Father. There is one called Working Mother. Think about that.
Jimmy Kimmel Has A Kid Therapist (DaddyTips Featured Video)
I don’t stay up late enough to watch Jimmy Kimmel. Luckily there’s this thing called YouTube and the good folks at Kimmel post videos from the show. This one, in which Mr. Kimmel visits his kid therapist, is more than worthy of being our DaddyTips Featured Video.
Seriously, watch the whole thing, even though it’s a whopping 4 minutes long. Read more »
Even More Tweets, Snoop Dogg Edition
Snoop Dogg, who I thought had changed his name to Snoop Lion but maybe he changed it back, leads off our list of tweets we tumbled across on Twitter.
Snoop Dogg at the Snoop Dogg Supafest 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Seems even Snoop Dee-oh Double Gee has “date night with the wifey.” (That rhymes! Go me.)
Date night wit wifey !! http://t.co/kJ1vTssb9V
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) May 4, 2014
A Lady Gaga concert was re-scheduled to accommodate a potential Game 6 between the Washington Wizards and the Indiana Pacers. People who bought tickets for the Gaga show were/are understandably pissed. On the lighter side, some of the tweets from Gaga’s “Little Monsters” are kinda funny. (Source: Pro Basketball Talk)
@verizoncenterpr @WellsFargoCtr crawl into the lowest circle of hell
— Matt. (@MattMatthews_) May 6, 2014
And because this is really about the imaginary war between sports, art and music:
https://twitter.com/tinaalva/statuses/463787785489375232
NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan is rightly beloved by New Yorkers. Despite the fact that Kirernan originally hails from Canada, he is very much a part of NYC, appearing in The Avengers and (spoiler alert) The Amazing Spider-Man 2. (As himself, not The Rhino or Doctor Octopus.) Apparently he was almost on The Sopranos. New York Magazine’s Vulture (another Spider-Man villain that Pat Kiernan does not play in The Amazing Spider-Man 2) has the story.
.@PatKiernan was almost on The Sopranos. It's a complicated story: http://t.co/n7j1o0SH2o
— Vulture (@vulture) May 6, 2014
This photo, by the way, is the most serious I’ve ever seen him look.
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