I use a black Sensa pen that I bought at Costco for just $35. It's quite the most comfortable pen I've ever used.
I find the Bic Atlantis is the most comfortable of the cheap plastic Office-Depot pens.
Here's what I've learned (and can remember) from my two sons, one 3.5 years and the other 4 months old.
Before birth:
Put a tennis ball in the bag you bring to the hospital. Then use it to massage your wife's back, so your fingers don't get exhausted in the first 30 minutes.
After:
Buy a copy of the book Babywise by Ezzo and somebody. My 4 month old son started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Weissman (?) is also good.
Put the baby to sleep in its own room as soon as possible. One week is not too soon. You will sleep better, and the baby will too.
Punishment will never encourage a good behavior. Only reward will encourage a good behavior. Punishment can be used to (temporarily) suspend a bad behavior, but you must then do something to encourage the good behavior, so you can reward it. Punishment by itself, without an encouragement/reward follow up, is perilously close to abuse.
Buy a PVR. No question. This is by far the best way to not only let you watch some tv, but also to let you control the tv the kid watches. Just don't let the kid watch tv while you're feeding it. This may mean you can't watch tv while feeding the kid. Sorry about that.
Remember: your kid can adjust to anything, and the sooner you start, the easier it will be for them.
Your kid will do what you do. If you want them to learn to clean up after themself, clean up after yourself. If you want them to be polite, be polite. Etc.
Finally, there are really only two things you need, to be a great dad:
1) You have to be willing to give up anything and everything at any given moment to do something for your kid.
2) Patience. Patience is great because it's one of the very few virtues that you can always figure out, even if you don't really have it. I mean, if you don't have wisdom, you can't just say "what would a wiser person do" because you're just not that wise. But you can almost always tell what a more patient person would do in any situation. Then do that.
I always laugh to hear people say that kids can out-stubborn adults. I'm 42. My oldest son is 3. Ten minutes is an eternity to him. He has never outlasted me in any contest of wills.
I remember about twenty years ago, there was an article in the NY Times about a new company with a breakthrough in soda can technology. They had a double-walled can with pressurized gas in the wall. When you opened the can, the release of pressure chilled the can and its contents. Voila -- no more coolers required.
A month or so later the other shoe dropped. The company did not in fact have any of the technology they claimed, and the Feds were on the lookout for the people who had taken a large sum of money from people who no-doubt believed that anything that appears in the Times must be true.
In retrospect it does seem extremely unlikely that any quantity of gas that could be reasonably pressurized within the small space of a double-walled soda can could produce a significant cooling effect on 12 oz of liquid.
I've found World Press Review to be a great source of news from other points of view. They are online at http://www.worldpress.org (Sorry, haven't quite grokked the insert-link process) and there's a print version as well.
I've always thought this was a brilliant idea for a magazine: basically they reprint stories from news sources around the world. So they create very little of their own content; this is actually integral to their purpose.
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I believe George Carlin said "If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some shmuck will buy it from you."
As of 10:48 PM PST 2.15.2004, the current bid is now $41,100. By the way the Reserve has been met.
I use a black Sensa pen that I bought at Costco for just $35. It's quite the most comfortable pen I've ever used. I find the Bic Atlantis is the most comfortable of the cheap plastic Office-Depot pens.
Before birth:
Put a tennis ball in the bag you bring to the hospital. Then use it to massage your wife's back, so your fingers don't get exhausted in the first 30 minutes.
After:
Buy a copy of the book Babywise by Ezzo and somebody. My 4 month old son started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Weissman (?) is also good.
Put the baby to sleep in its own room as soon as possible. One week is not too soon. You will sleep better, and the baby will too.
Punishment will never encourage a good behavior. Only reward will encourage a good behavior. Punishment can be used to (temporarily) suspend a bad behavior, but you must then do something to encourage the good behavior, so you can reward it. Punishment by itself, without an encouragement/reward follow up, is perilously close to abuse.
Buy a PVR. No question. This is by far the best way to not only let you watch some tv, but also to let you control the tv the kid watches. Just don't let the kid watch tv while you're feeding it. This may mean you can't watch tv while feeding the kid. Sorry about that.
Remember: your kid can adjust to anything, and the sooner you start, the easier it will be for them.
Your kid will do what you do. If you want them to learn to clean up after themself, clean up after yourself. If you want them to be polite, be polite. Etc.
Finally, there are really only two things you need, to be a great dad:
1) You have to be willing to give up anything and everything at any given moment to do something for your kid.
2) Patience. Patience is great because it's one of the very few virtues that you can always figure out, even if you don't really have it. I mean, if you don't have wisdom, you can't just say "what would a wiser person do" because you're just not that wise. But you can almost always tell what a more patient person would do in any situation. Then do that.
I always laugh to hear people say that kids can out-stubborn adults. I'm 42. My oldest son is 3. Ten minutes is an eternity to him. He has never outlasted me in any contest of wills.
A month or so later the other shoe dropped. The company did not in fact have any of the technology they claimed, and the Feds were on the lookout for the people who had taken a large sum of money from people who no-doubt believed that anything that appears in the Times must be true.
In retrospect it does seem extremely unlikely that any quantity of gas that could be reasonably pressurized within the small space of a double-walled soda can could produce a significant cooling effect on 12 oz of liquid.
Apparently the meteor had a license plate that said "Feature".
I've found World Press Review to be a great source of news from other points of view. They are online at http://www.worldpress.org (Sorry, haven't quite grokked the insert-link process) and there's a print version as well. I've always thought this was a brilliant idea for a magazine: basically they reprint stories from news sources around the world. So they create very little of their own content; this is actually integral to their purpose.
Mac OS X 10.0 was released in May, 2001. Assuming 10.3 hits around 10/2003, that's .3 in 2.5 years.
That puts OS X 10.9 five years later in late 2008.
After that, what? OS X 11?