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Comment on Things I’ll never build – Part MCLIV – WordPress Instagram Liked Plugin by Herman Schutte

Herman Schutte — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:28:00 +0000

This is actally a pretty good idea!

Comment on Selling our Wooden Igloo Bookshelf by Paul Baron

Paul Baron — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:10:43 +0000

The price is 500,000 Japanese YEN and it’s not sold yet.Interested?

Comment on Selling our Wooden Igloo Bookshelf by shannon

shannon — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:06:14 +0000

is that 500,000 dollars? or is it in some other currency? have you sold it yet?

Comment on Selling our Wooden Igloo Bookshelf by sam

sam — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:25:40 +0000

hey have you sold this yet?

Comment on Moooi Card Case by Jono

Jono — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:15:52 +0000

great wallet. need a new one. where can I find it in the US (or order in English)?

Comment on Quick tips for daddies thinking about madness and civilization by James Bowskill

James Bowskill — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:15:02 +0000

Hi Paul — this really rings true for me too. We would do things like guess what colour diggers we’d see on the construction site we passed. I found guessing worked really well — for example we’d guess what colour t-shirt his friends/teachers would be wearing. That way he would be focussed on that upon arrival, and things went really smoothly.Nowadays he tells me off for collecting him too early as he wants to keep playing though

Comment on Quick tips for daddies thinking about madness and civilization by Claire

Claire — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:53:46 +0000

I also did many of these things with my daughter on the way to daycare. Now she is four and going to preschool! Lucky for me she enjoys it very much. I found that on days when she didn’t want to go, I would remind her that her friends (who I would name) were waiting for her and would wonder where she was if she wasn’t there. Sometimes she could be convinced to go out of consideration for her friends. I really loved being able to talk to the daycare staff about my daughter, since I didn’t have many other people around who knew her as well as they did. It was good to get advice from them about problems, too. I often do “image training” with her at night, talking through step by step the plan for the following day. Even very little kids can benefit from this. If we are going to do something special, like going on a trip, I start mentioning it a couple weeks in advance. It’s easy to forget to tell your child your plans, especially when they are still very little and you’re not sure if they understand, but they really do understand, and it helps a lot.

Comment on Quick tips for daddies thinking about madness and civilization by Chris Lüscher

Chris Lüscher — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:55:57 +0000

Spot-on. It also helps to understand how inadequate modern “nuclear family” living conditions are for kids. Kids, even the shyest, are very social beings. They lack all those distractions from work and social obligations that we have, they need other kids to distract them. Kids thrive in large groups of similar-age kids and have historically been doing so since the dawn of mankind – that is, until somebody invented 4 1/2 room appartments for single kids and grumpy moms and dads behind their laptop screens. Don’t deprive your kid of the joy of being social by consciously or unconsciously suggesting that you don’t want it to be with those of its age.

Comment on Robotic Art by nurmalasari

nurmalasari — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:51:55 +0000

I can not open the file …Can you explain?

Comment on Things I’ll never build – Part MCLIII by Raphaël Mazoyer

Raphaël Mazoyer — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:38:57 +0000

Not sure about the family priority… But postcards are a really good idea, because they introduce delay (if you stopped emailing, maybe it’s because there wasn’t enough juice to power an ongoing email stream, but there might be enough for snail mail).There are people the system would scream at me for not emailing any more, but there are sometimes fairly good reasons. So I’d like to add notes about why… And perhaps those could be forgotten, and would randomly pop up at appropriate intervals: “Time to review this situation?”