Jim L.

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Fury Cooks and I Get Up Close and Personal. But Not Here.

Jim L. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 10:40 am
Fury and his fellow Kid Test Labs comrades TXU and Brendan put Curious Chef products to the test, and they captured it all on video. Food Network, are you listening? These kids need their own show. Mo...
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I've Got 20 Minutes and a Baby Picture

Jim L. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 10:36 am
Consider this post a pre-emptive strike, nothing more. I've been doing this once-a-month posting thing for long enough to intuitively sense when I'm about to be called out on Twitter for aband...
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I'm a Skate Punk. Was.

Jim L. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 10:37 am
I recently bought Fury a skateboard. Last night I was showing him the finer points of an ollie. Well, explaining. The showing part didn't go so well. Because when you're 37 years old and haven...
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Time to Bring the Heat: Tastemaker Challenge 2K10

Jim L. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 3:32 am
BEFORE YOU READ THIS: If you only have a second and don't want to read this long post, just skip down to the video and rate it. I promise, you will NOT be disappointed (if you like cooking, Rocky,...
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Music Credits You'll Never See (alt title: Announcing KidTestLabs.com)

Jim L. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 10:40 am
Jay-Z, featuring BusyD I'm bad luck when it comes to collabo's. Remember sometime last year when Mr Lady and I kicked off our advice blog? Looking back, it kicked ass. It was fun, and we dis...
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7 years in, and he's already got me beat

Jim L. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 10:12 am
d Wife has been having a pretty tough pregnancy. Everyone tells us that means it's probably a girl. This would usually be the part where I do a happy dance followed by a "Kid n Play" style grab on...
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A Few Good Causes

Jim L. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 12:02 am
This blog gets decent traffic. And since I don't use it to make money advertising, I should at least use it for something productive. You know, aside from trying to persuade you that I'm wicke...
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Cyborg. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...

Jim L. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 9:18 pm
That’s what they used to call me. But nowadays, Fury just pats me on the belly and shakes his head whenever I flex my biceps in front of him. Cyborgs aren’t supposed to jiggle, apparently....
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Getting Busy

Jim L. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 3:53 am
Heh. Oh, will you look at that! I didn’t realize what time it was. Is that clock right? It says One-Month-Since-You-Posted-You-Slacker o’clock. Pacific time. I wonder if I can just get awa...
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Give a boy a cheeseburger and he'll get a Happy Meal toy, teach him how to cook one and you'll get a blog post

Jim L. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2009, 12:58 am
"Dad, can I skip the workbook tonight?" The kid knows how to work this "mom's not here for the week" thing really well. And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking given the fact tha...
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When Left To My Own Devices...

Jim L. posted an article on - Aug 9, 2009, 2:41 am

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Time to Rant

Jim L. posted an article on - Jul 29, 2009, 9:48 am
I've been spending the past two days reading BlogHer conference recaps. And it feels like that movie Memento, where I'm discovering bits and pieces and making sense of them within the context ...
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"I'll Have a Busy Dad."

Jim L. posted an article on - Jul 21, 2009, 1:40 am
See that phrase above? I've got a vision. And after much contemplation, I've come to believe it's what I was put on this earth to accomplish. I must have a drink named after me. And now ...
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Mythbustin'

Jim L. posted an article on - Jul 16, 2009, 10:14 am
Earlier this year, while perusing a stack of schoolwork that Fury had brought home, I noticed this correction on one of his math packets: 10? My ambitious extremely dexterous child can only hold 10 p...
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Just Call Me Britney

Jim L. posted an article on - Jul 12, 2009, 11:46 pm
This whole truck selling thing from the last post has been tough on both me and Fury. Last weeked, we gave the truck one last wash and this weeked I got the AC fixed. It's now ready for Craigslist...
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Bye Bye, Dada Truck

Jim L. posted an article on - Jul 8, 2009, 12:03 am
The Dada Truck came into our lives by accident -- a nice metal crunching, oh-boy-I'm-better-off-donating-this-wreck kind of accident. One minute I was driving a BMW with too many miles and problem...
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Toy Stories

Jim L. posted an article on - Jul 2, 2009, 10:25 pm
One very cool thing about having a son is that I get to play with all the toys that I used to covet when I was a youngster. And unlike the grown-up toy geeks who just look creepy buying up all th...
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