Comments on: Last Minute Holiday Shopping!!!

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:17:58 +0000

I would also just like to express my appreciation for Amazon, yet again. While it is entirely possible that I could have found one at Toys-R-Us, that would have required descending into the very bowels of hell and if they had one, they would have been teh only place in town. Thanks to Amazon, I didn’t need to make the journey and thanks to my student membership – which affords me free two day shipping, Youngest will be getting his fond wish for a boy baby doll.

Apparently he wants to be a momma, just like me – but not a girly sort of momma, presumably because I’m not all that girly. Now I just need to find a doll bassinet that isn’t pink. I am just waiting for him to ask me to make his baby doll some cozy, one-piece jammies. That is the sort of thing that happens when your children believe you’re capable of making absolutely anything and everything.

By: gwen

gwen — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:28:24 +0000

My sons received LEGOS until they were well in their teens. I finally had to tell them they were receiving their last set at about 14 or 15. They actually used them to create incredible things. They thought long and hard about which cousin would inherit them. I wish now we’d given them to a charity instead.

Those little magnets and button batteries can be lethal. You MUST go to the emergency room when one is ingested. It is a surgical emergency if it is not passed right away, they can be lethal.

I have a Sony SLR hybrid that I love. Now I need to take a photography class to use it to its potential.

The head lamp is a great idea!

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:55:32 +0000

I can totally second the magic school bus science kits. They singularly beat that Toysmith crap carried by virtually every museum gift shop in the U.S., the Thames and Kosmos and Science Whiz crap. The Scientific Explorer and Smithsonian aren’t as bad, but the Smithsonian kits are generally overpriced. About the only brand I like as much as the Magic School Bus kits, are the Elenco kits – especially the snap-circuitry kits.

I would note that while the contents of the kits rather suck, the books that accompany the Science Whiz line are actually pretty good – at least the ones in the Electricity and Magnetics kits. However, it is entirely possible that your local library has a non-kit copy of pretty much the same books that come in the kits – can’t remember the publisher off the top of my head.

By: Pete Moulton

Pete Moulton — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:39:05 +0000

True, HP; but with the world due to end on the 2012 Winter Solstice, how many more eclipses would we need to worry about?

By: HP

HP — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:43:17 +0000

Someone had way too much time on their hands, I guess.

Yeah, but think of all the time saved not having to calculate future eclipses by hand.

By: Pete Moulton

Pete Moulton — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:23:53 +0000

Legos are cool! Why, just the other day GrrlScientist had a video of the Antikythera Mechanism made out of Legos. Someone had way too much time on their hands, I guess.

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:47:32 +0000

This is both funny and weird. It’s a book that tells you how to make 5 play-functional models of guns, using Legos.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593272847/

I like Legos, because they’re so flexible in so many ways – but this application strikes me as being just a little creepy.

By: DoctorAtlantis

DoctorAtlantis — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:43:11 +0000

One can’t help but wonder about the 100+ used microbiology coloring books Amazon has for sale…