This Etsy shop is so filled with geeky awesomeness that I decided I couldn’t just share it with a friend or two and needed instead to dedicate an entire post.
The Pink Toque
The shop is mainly focused on creative handmade soap designs, but there are a few other fun products tossed into the mix. A [...]
Well, technically he’s just certified!
Lucas has spent the last two weekends getting his PADI scuba certification in preparation for our trip to Mozambique. Back in Austin, this would be no big deal, but we’re in Norway. And this is “open-water” diving!
Yes, that means that his certification dives were in the Oslofjord. Swimming in the fjord [...]
I promised to post this as a follow up to my Paris trip recap this week, and depending on which day you consider the first of the week, I may have actually made that deadline.
One of the problems with visiting popular destinations around the world is the crowds and the queues. Anyone who has stood [...]
This is a cute time-lapse video of what it might look like if baking cookies was like using PhotoShop. I’m neither a great baker nor a great PhotoShop artist, but I think my baking might turn out better if I had an Undo button! On the other hand, I’m glad I don’t have to pay [...]
This week I finished uploading my photos from our Valentine’s Day weekend in Paris. The full album can be found here.
We booked our trip to Paris back in December when RyanAir was having one of their crazy airfare sales, and the roundtrip tickets cost only 200 NOK (around $35) per person. Since we could fly [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Mattel unveiled Barbie’s latest career choices at the American International Toy Fair, a few weeks ago. They put it to a vote on the internet, so not surprisingly the popular choice (swayed by the computer-addicted masses) was “computer engineer.” The company also created a “news anchor” doll, which was the [...]
This weekend, we went with Tara and Tor to Tor’s family cabin in the mountains. Even though we’ve been in Norway for three years, we’ve never experienced a traditional cabin trip. Even more embarrassingly, we’ve never been cross country skiing.
We drove up on Friday night, and our first cross-country experience was quite an adventure – [...]
I really want to keep up my two posts per week resolution, but I don’t have any time this week. We got back from Paris on Monday (I was hoping to post about that), and today we have to leave early to go on a very Norwegian weekend cabin trip, so I’m just trying to [...]
At the moment we have only folded 451 Scrum Post-It paper cranes, but our pile is getting a bit unruly. I really need to go through and string them, but I haven’t found the time. However, in true Scrum fashion, the crane-folding task has been parked for the foreseeable future.
Last week, our product owner came [...]
I know that some people find it annoying that subscribing to my RSS feed in Google Reader only shows the summary of new posts, forcing you to click through to the website to read them. I just want to say that I have been working hard on trying to fix that.
I really don’t have any [...]