1) Daily Beast’s The National Book Awards Longlist For Fiction. Ah yes, that time of year when I’m reminded how many books I haven’t read. Well, only all of them. Like, why bother anymore. “Because” shall be some kind of subset of Bridget Jones’ resolution to stop buying books just to display impressively on bookshelves: No more linking of stuff I probably never intended to read anyway.
2) I did however skim this: The Social Life Of Genes. Betcha didn’t know it’s not a good idea to eat a banana next to a beehive (bees’ “alarm” pheromone apparently smells of bananas – you see the lengths I go to, to entertain The Rockstars). Anyway entomologist Gene Robinson switches 250 young African killer bees with 250 young European milder bees in their hives to challenge the theory that you are born who you are: He proves your environment can change your genes and therefore behavior, dimming the traits of certain genes and enhancing others. For applications think cancer genes. At least, if you’re a bee. Hopefully eventually even if you’re not.
3) Should you Friend your child on Facebook? Author of The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age spends 3 years interviewing kids aged 4 – 18 “to get a sense of what makes a parent approachable and trustworthy.” There’s lotsa stuff I hope to read in detail but the verdict is: yes you should friend your child and check in just as you would if they were having a party in your living room. But you wouldn’t sit on the sofa the whole time…
4) Ok really picture-lite lemme try and make up for it:
Dis is apparently a dog dressed as Madonna
Howl-oween costumes for pets, on gilt.com. I prefer “Why Dogs Bite”.
And Why Cats Hate People.
5) This one’s not a costume:
What is WRONG with this animal? pic from boredpanda.com
That’s Lil Bub, the cat born with various genetic defects including dwarfism which makes her too-short limbs useless for jumping and leaping like normal cats, 4 extra toes, and no teeth, which is why her tongue does that most of the time. She is also an internet celebrity. Way to work with the hand you’re dealt.
6) This one’s not a costume either:
Rain-dogs.
This the Dog-brella from 30 Awesome Inventions.
7) More awesome inventions and ideas in 33 Amazing Home Ideas.
Dis is one…
But dis is Rockstar’s favorite one…
8) This week JD guest stars in the The Rockstars’ 5 second Good Weekend skit titled Feeding Time In The Rockstar Household.
Original Rockstar is sharing his snacks 3-ways these days because he’s the only one of the 3 of them who can raid the fridge. Have a wonderful weekend, dears…
The dog brella is a brilliant invention. The photos at the end give me a warm and fuzzy feeling to see Rockstar sharing his snacks with JD and his sister. What a generous boy!
So now Miss Rockstar knows how to point at what she wants, does she point a lot?
Where is she btw? Looks kinda high from your camera angle but are you standing behind her to take the photo?
Have a good weekend!
Yeah I really like the Dogbrella because I find the doggie raincoats I see around HK a lot more “work”… Doggie wellies to go with would be just perfect…
Yes she points and gabbles a lot, doesn’t repeat many of the words we use (though can do so one-off fairly often) though, she prefers to gabble long strings of sounds in a language known only to her… She’s standing on the bed and leaning over the child-rail; we kinda taught Rockstar to stand there (rather than hop on the bed) unless he doesn’t mind being swarmed up… Of the two he is much more reserved and needs his space so we’ve kinda been showing him how to gain some “distance” when he wants it… And for the moment the Lego headquarters loft bed remains undiscovered because Little Miss has her Happy Tree Room to toddle in…