Dire message from a fellow parent in my kid's school about the situation in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn:  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/987876/Message%20From%20Sheepshead%20Bay.txt … Can anyone help?

People never realize when they are at their most beautiful.

Silent house. Then one of the kids chuckles in his sleep. Then, "Oppa Gangnam style." More chuckles. Back to silence.

Love when you're on a project & come up with something so great you all get goosebumps. World be damned, we're having fun and making stuff.

Interesting take on Groupon's financing by @mike_matas: "Groupon Is a Straight-Up Ponzi Scheme" http://t.co/WDptYjh

Help @feltron identify his dad's old slides from around the world: http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltron/sets/72157625830702517/ fun puzzle!

Loud fight out on the street. Girl keeps repeating:"But you twittered it, you twittered it!" Guy: "It was just a TWEET! A TWEET!" #lamefight

My first grade son on first grade girls: "The girls are meaner than the boys... but when the girls want something they are very very nice."

Current situation: Son #1 writing letter to POTUS on why he should be first kid in space. Son #2 writing letter on why that would be unfair.

Disturbing but important story on the suicide of Private Danny Chen after prolonged and brutal racist hazing: http://t.co/O89yT4OZ

Talking to a Pakistani cab driver who just ate his first avocado. "It's so unbelievable. DELICIOUS! Amazing! I am happy sir!"

I'll admit @kottke's hand supermodel video had me googling for more. Gets weirder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z49jQ9Qiyso

Found my 4 year old quietly sobbing. Asked what was going on. "I want to write a story I am thinking. [tears[ But I don't know spelling!"

The reverse shots tell the story. Romney's crowd was 99% white (many many dudes in suits). Obama's crowd looks like America.

The narco violence in Monterrey, MX is so bad right now that people are using twitter hash tags to report the locations of gunshots.

Newscasters keep saying Abbottabad is a suburb of Islamabad, it's not. It's about 2 hours away. Popular honeymoon spot / weekend getaway.

I always love stories of people finding exposed but undeveloped film. Here's a story about a Japanese camera: http://t.co/9tHqiXhw

My 4 year old on MLK's voice after hearing part of the I Have a Dream Speech on the news, "That guy sounds like a really cool robot."

Quora: What are the best pre-k educational apps for iphone.? Answer here: http://qr.ae/TfXv

Someone told me I made parenting seem fun. Note parenting is often not fun as being a parent exposes your deepest flaws as a human being.