Book Review: Bunnicula by James Howe

This week, I decided to hear for myself why my now 12-year-old daughter still collapses into laughter every time she listens to (or reads) the Bunnicula series by James Howe.

“Is that truck exhausted?”

Once upon a time, I used to use Saturday mornings to post funny things my then four-year-old daughter said. She still says a lot of funny…

There should be an app for that…

On hearing that Google had developed an AI that could detect lung cancer in CTs, the 12YO pointed out it would also be cool if you could take pictures of weird stuff on your skin and have your phone tell you if you needed to see a doctor for it. And then she started to imagine what it would be like to use it. Commence role play in 3.. 2.. 1..

An orange cat sleeps in a cat bed by a window. A white bandana bordered in blue is draped over him like a blanket.

Not-at-all Wordless Wednesday: Why doesn’t my cat hate his pet bandana more?

It’s Monopoly time at our local Safeway. I play every year and this year, in a Caterpickles Central first, I actually won something–brand new free-except-for-shipping @Shutterfly pet bandanas. I thought my cat would hate this more. How am I not bleeding right now? #cats #stuffoncats

View of a remote control car from above, showing the tracks the car's tires have left on the bright orange dirt of a baseball field.

Wordless Wednesday: AI-powered race cars

Over spring break, my daughter went to a coding camp that taught her how to race cars using AI coding languages. The first day I picked her up, she told me excitedly, “Mommyo! My car runs on Raspberry Pi!” So of course, I responded: “What a coincidence. So do I!” #momjokes

orange tabby "sharing" a lap with an iPad in a keyboard case.

So I sat down today to do a bit of blogging for the first time in almost a month…

And then this happened. Man, it’s hard to type this way. But to bring you up quickly to date… blogging has been light in part because…

Wordless Wednesday: Stealth Mode

Wordless Wednesday: Something’s different about Christmas in California

Can’t quite put my finger on it, though. Related Links: More Wordless Wednesday on Caterpickles

Do you know what day it is?

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“Cotton Candy: Clothing fiber or food?”

Last week, Daddyo introduced The Ten-Year-Old to the faux nutritional miracle that is cotton candy. He got her to try it by casting it as a scientific experiment: “Cotton Candy: Clothing fiber or food?”