A tablet made just for kids and covered with rubber all around it to protect the tablet from being destroyed from dropping it on the ground by your kids.  Interesting but the price is not cheap either at about $233 U.S. dollars  – would it be better to buy a regular tablet for you kid?  or do a parent buy it just because it is quite destroy proof?  The tablet will come in 3 sizes – 7 inch, 8 inch and 9 inches and all has a camera attached but only with a 2MP resolution.  Battery should last like 6hrs and parents can blocked sites that they don’t want their children to be on.  Said to be available for sale in UK in July 2012 – I wonder when it will be available in Canada.

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Now I say everyone can use a projection alarm clock and a weather monitor – every morning – don’t you think?   For about $80 – from Hammacher Schlemmer – this clock has a built in sensor that tells you the time and weather condition.  I like that when I wake up in the middle of the night – I can just look up and see the time and temperature without having to look out the window or having to turn on the computer for an update.

It may be near Christmas now – but the end of the year is also coming – so with some money left – I’m looking into getting the scanner software  that the spouse had been talking about for ages – to reorganize my paper work for tax time.   I think it would be an awesome investment because it just came to light – about a few months ago – that I still have an outstanding bill with a telephone company – when we moved our store to our present location.  You see, we never did received any notice from the company – till a collection agency called up and looking up for the said bill to verify if it was paid took me more than a month – because my paperwork from 3 years ago were in storage.  Now if I had that scanner software – surely, it would take just a number or a name of the telephone company to bring up all my files.  It would definitely saved me a lot of time too – hunting down the papers.  So yes, I’m reorganizing and spending a little on the scanner software which would definitely save me a lot of work in the future.

I could use something like that for my desk – because I’m a messy person and chuck all my stationary, pens and writing pads just about everywhere.  So when I need them – they are nowhere to be found – most embarrassing if I needed to write something important about a customer’s computer. This goes for $9  – a great deal – great Christmas present too – for your office people from Art  Lebedev.

Will you really ride on this kind of bike?  in a suit?  I can’t see myself doing it – but if you were living in a city – well – this might even be better than a car.

While not all Torontian are on human growth hormone supplements – they can now make use of the Bixi bike share program that was recently launched this week – to better their health and save the earth.  We all want to be healthy and happy and one way is to boost our immune system.  So the program by the city of Toronto will be renting out about 1000 bikes – that Bixi users can rent with their bixi cards without a lot of hassle and drop off the bike after using it – at a designated station.  Montreal already had this program for a long time now with about 230K people using the bikes.  Rentals are cheap and I would definitely rent the Bixi bikes if I am living in Toronto but for now I’ll have to take my growth supplements to keep healthy.

Over the years we’ve bought her things to keep up the creativity. An Etch-a-Sketch & large magnetic drawing board this Christmas, an Easel last summer, jewelry making supplies (beads and stuff) the year before and tons of other things. She likes it and has fun so that’s the important thing, but cleaning up the messes afterward is time consuming, so we try to stick to the less messy things like plain old paper and crayons.

That would be what a normal parent would/should do but nope not in this town of ours. Instead of teaching their kids, they come breathing fire down our throat and called us a crook *slap forehead*. It’s like someone selling a stone sink to the wife and i didn’t liked it but instead of talking to the wife – i bring it back to the store and throw it back at their faces. What is the world coming to these days? Parents wonder why their kids turn out the way they do – now here is an example.

So there’s a growing job market out there for people with a Masters of Science in Information Security, a program offered at the Lewis University. Even better is that you can take these courses online! It’s great for people like me who have a full time job and a family, going back to traditional school just isn’t possible. But spending a few hours a night doing online study, after the kid is in bed and the housework is done, is a great way to expand my career options.

Ah fuck it, who am I kidding? My parents let me play whatever I wanted and watch horror movies with Freddy and Jason hacking up naked teens and I grew up pretty normal, haven’t killed anyone… yet… >=) Just do me a favor and teach them the difference between games and real life. Ok? good.