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The toddler phone, a building's history and very geeky tech stuff

Another busy week. I found myself so exhausted by the weekend that I couldn't even imagine what it would have been like to have a recap due. As it is, work, NPR and the videos my brother and I are doing for TWOP are keeping me pretty busy. I've been trying to find my usual summer groove to do some reading, play some video games, catch up on TV and DVDs and, hey, maybe even go outside once in a while.

It's much more challenging as Lilly gets older because when she's awake she demands pretty constant attention now. And damned if she doesn't have her dad's crazy all-day/all-night energy levels. I don't my wife's ever going to forgive me for that.

Anyway, it's a happy busy and I'm still working to try to clear extraneous things from my life that no longer need my attention or work. So far, so good.

Here's what's been going on lately:

Over the weekend, I had two stories on the Life & Arts front. The first was a pretty sizable story about an Austin man who found out, completely by coincidence, that he's working in the same building where his great grandfather ran a grocery about 111 years ago.

It was a little tiny story that turned into a much bigger one; I found myself at the Austin History Center researching everything I could find about that building. I also shot a short video to go with the story:

That same day, a print version of this blog post I wrote on the very cool Society for Information Display conference I went to last week in San Antonio ran. It was much better than I expected and I felt like I got a brief glimpse into the future of TVs, e-books and other displays. Here's another video:

For yesterday's NPR All Tech Considered segment, we talked about kids and cell phones. As expected, I got a few comments calling me (or others like me) a lazy parent for daring to let my kid play with my iPhone. What the fuck ever, dudes. You can come entertain my kid with some Lincoln Logs at 3 a.m. if you like, you ass. My lazy ass will be sleeping.

There were several blog entries related to the story both before and after. Lilly's photo from about a year ago is on there, chewing on my phone. I didn't mind putting it up because she really doesn't look like that anymore. For one thing, her hair's getting really long.

Last thing: spent practically my whole day yesterday writing about the new iPhone and pricing ambiguity for existing AT&T customers. Now I'm gonna go nap.

posted by Omar G. at 1:22 PM

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