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Why, SteelyKid? What Are We Going to Do Tomorrow Night?
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 19, 2013 
OK, Daddy, guess what? Here’s my idea. We get a stick of wood and we put a timer on it, then we get a big rock and put it on the end. We have to put feet on the big rock, so it can stand on the stick. Then when the rain comes down, down,…
In Which I Struggle With Popular Music
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 15, 2013 The kids are off at Grandma and Grandpa’s, so Kate and I went out for a nice dinner Thursday night, and I found myself with a bit of time to blog… but no particular substantive ideas. The whole “publishers behaving badly” theme of last week seems to have run its course, between Random House re-thinking…
Long-Overdue Kid Blogging
Posted by Chad Orzel on March 8, 2013 
WordPress’s upload is broken, so here’s a link to the photo: SteelyKid and The Pip. February was… not a good month, in a lot of ways. Let’s leave it at that. One of the unfortunate consequences of this was that I went just about the entire month without even taking any pictures of the kids,…
Deficit Models, Bureaucratic Empathy, and Work-Life Juggling
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 28, 2013 Every now and then, I run across a couple of items that tie together a whole bunch of different issues that weigh heavily on my mind. That happened yesterday courtesy of Timothy Burke, whose blog post about an NPR story is so good that there aren’t enough +1 buttons on the entire Internet for it.…
Dinner in the Invisible Kingdom
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 6, 2013 
[Scene: Dinner at Chateau SteelyPips. DADDY is starting to say something about his day at work, when STEELYKID interrupts.] STEELYKID: If you eat too many hot dogs, you’ll turn into a hot dog! DADDY: That would be pretty silly. Luckily, you’re eating chicken for dinner. Eat your chicken. STEELYKID: There’s a magic hot dog, and…
Science Online Advice: Overthinking Online Privacy
Posted by Chad Orzel on February 6, 2013 This is the third post in which I’m pulling a revise-and-extend job on some things I said at Science Online at a few panels on bloggy stuff, and the one I’m least settled about. Previous posts covered the in how-to-do-outreach session (posted Monday and the blogging long term session (posted yesterday). This one covers the…
Cute Kid Update
Posted by Chad Orzel on January 27, 2013 It’s been a good while since I did any Cute Kid Blogging, due to excessive busy-ness. There’s big news among the younger residents of Chateau Steelypips, though: SteelyKid lost one of her front teeth the other day: That gap? Wasn’t there on Friday morning. Lest you think we’re horrible people who let her run headfirst…
Blast From the Past: Letter to and From Luis Alvarez
Posted by Chad Orzel on January 22, 2013 
I have mentioned before that when I was a kid, I wrote a letter to Luis Alvarez, the 1968 Nobel laureate in Physics, asking some questions about his theory that an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs, which had been featured in a NOVA special. I got a very nice letter back from him, very graciously…
2012 Was Just This Year, You Know?
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 31, 2012 
The Pip’s ringing in the New Year… Well, OK, he’s actually asleep upstairs. Because when you have a one-year-old and a four-year-old, you don’t really get out to a lot of parties on New Year’s Eve. Anyway, to be honest, I won’t be all that sorry to see 2012′s taillights fade to black. There were…
‘Tis the Season
Posted by Chad Orzel on December 15, 2012 
It was a long and irritating week, for reasons that I can’t discuss on the blog, and just when it finally looked like there might be some motion in a positive direction, I got a call from day care saying that SteelyKid had a fever and needed to be picked up immediately. But, on the…
