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Loss of Innocence

August 17, 2012

Yesterday, my 10 year-old daughter, discovered that the Tooth Fairy no longer exists. I was packing to return home from our vacation and was about to stow some bandages in my toilet bag when she caught a glimpse of her note and tooth that she had left for T.F. under her pillow several days ago. [...]

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It’s Elementary

June 22, 2012

via @jarnovayrynen

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Caine’s Arcade

April 11, 2012

Caine’s Arcade is a charming short film about a 9-year old boy who built a homemade  arcade out of cardboard boxes at his dad’s used auto part store in East LA and how a community rallied to show him some love. One day, by chance, I walked into Smart Parts Auto looking for a used door [...]

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Julia on Violin

May 10, 2011

She’s been wanting to play for years. and now she’s now learning to pluck the strings. Yesterday, Julia received certification from the Royal College of Music.

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Captain Haddock

November 20, 2010

I jumped on the latest Facebook meme and changed my profile picture to a comic character from my childhood. My father, whenever he went on a business trip, would buy me a new Tintin book. After awhile, I had every single issue and would read them from cover-to-cover, over and over again. Funny now when [...]

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Old School Playground

November 3, 2009

Back when I was a lad life on the playground was a little more . . . tenuous. Everything in the playground was more dangerous. And they were different and unique, seemingly put together by the neighborhood handymen who in a burst of creative energy one Saturday morning emptied their garages of old tires, 2×4s, [...]

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Sibling Rivalry 2009

July 29, 2009

A Nokia colleague of mine here in Finland had a charming update to an age old scenario. In this scene, the older sister, who is 13, is saying she has a crush on a boy in her school. It’s a boy in her school and the younger sister is dying to know who it is. [...]

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Up and to the Right

March 22, 2009

It was windy today so we flew a kite. More photos here.

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Leapfrog making a toy Blackberry

January 30, 2009

I am not sure what to make of this. I’m all for making toys realistic and all but working at Nokia, we’re all about trying to make mobile mobile devices more playful and fun. So it’s weird to see a Leapfrog making a toy phone more, um, business-like.

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YouTube as a Search Engine

January 19, 2009

My son was featured in yesterday’s Sunday New York Times in an article (At First, Funny videos. Now, a Reference Tool) about the unforeseen use of YouTube as a research tool. We all associate videos with entertainment but Tyler has taught me that with the addition of meta-data and micro-chunked content, it’s possible to use [...]

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