Steve Austin and Bigfoot—Unfairly Expensive Toys
Season 3 had Bigfoot.
OK. Here’s the deal. Apparently humans will soon have the opportunity to purchase action figures toys dolls action figures of Steve Austin and Bigfoot. But the price is unfairly expensive. Read more »
New York State Bans Online Gamers Who Are Sex Offenders
Via Kotaku, a story about New York State banning online gamers who are sex offenders. This kind of makes sense, since (I think—I’m not a lawyer) convicted sex offenders are required to stay a certain distance from kids, and obviously kids (in this case I mean humans under the age of 18) are frequently playing games online.
One could argue that this raises privacy issues. But with apps that allow paranoid parents to easily find nearby sex offenders via GPS, sex offenders don’t have an expectation of privacy.
For me, this is yet another argument to keep my kids off of XBox Live or Life With Playstation or OpenFeint or whatever. As I’ve said to them many times—I trust you. It’s other people I’m concerned about.
New York State Just Banned 3,580 Online Gamers Who Are All Sex Offenders (Kotaku)
Brett Singer Tweets for 2012-04-08
This week in Brett Singer Tweets—my interview with Dee Snider appears on Snakkle, Kentucky fans overdo it, and I stumble across a video featuring both Henry Winkler and Lee Majors. The Fonz and The Six Million Dollar Man. Are you listening, Hollywood? Read more »
Food Price Observations
I’m becoming obsessed with the price of food. For example, one supermarket near me sells OJ for 2 dollars more than one 20 blocks away. (OJ the beverage, not the former football player.)
Also grapes. One place has them for over 3 bucks a pound. Street vendors have them for $1.50 a pound.
This is not about food prices, though. While it is possible that these prices are some sort of economic indicator, that’s not why I think I’m noticing them.
I think my becoming obsessed with food prices is a sign that I’m getting old. What’s next? Losing my hair?
(Note: Posted from a cellphone while cooking dinner.)
Small Wonder Intro (DaddyTube)
Here is the intro to the wacko TV show Small Wonder.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2mq3gs_3Y]
“She’s fantastic / Made of plastic…” Are we sure this isn’t a Lennon/McCartney tune?
via 25+ Greatest TV Shows of All Time for Kids – Parenting.com
ThinkGeek Inflatable Star Trek Chair is Real
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwNjtqnWepw]
Geek Gold Card alert! The ThinkGeek Inflatable Star Trek Chair is real. It is not some cruel post-April-Fool’s Day joke. (I emailed their publicist and asked. Seriously.)
In the immortal words of George Takei, oh my God. Read more »
Brett Singer Tweets for 2012-04-01
- Brett Singer Tweets for 2012-03-25 http://t.co/a0QI83SU # Read more »
