Wednesday 2.28

Because nobody's a bigger expert on human fertility than the childless host of the Morning Mix, we present

BOB MILLER'S FERTILITY FRUIT SALAD

1 8-ounce can crushed pineapple
2 kiwi fruits, peeled and sliced
1 apple, cored and diced
1 cup sliced strawberries
1/2 cup orange juice
1 large sliced banana
1 8-ounce carton fat-free lemon yogurt
1 tablespoon crystallized chopped ginger

Toss the fruit and juice ingredients.
Add banana just before serving (or it'll turn brown and totally ruin the mood).
Top with yogurt and sprinkle on the ginger.
Conceive child.
Serves 4. (why it needs to serve 4 we're not sure given its purpose)

Tuesday 2.27

Here's 10 totally stupid online business ideas that made somebody rich. Clearly we're not stupid enough here. But we try.

Monday 2.26

Shovel shovel shovel. No time to post.

But wait! Great news - Washington has changed their mind about the new rule that would've required passports for all your kids, just for a quick drive up to Canada.

Okay, gotta go. Maria wants to build a snow fort.

Weekend: 2.23-25

Interesting: the IRS's original income tax forms from 1913. Four pages long, including instructions.

Thursday 2.22

Miller is despondent:

As if 98 years of futility wasn't bad enough, they get the SI cover jinx this year. Well, better luck in '08. (People were saying that to Cubs fans a hundred years ago, and it worked out okay that time, didn't it?)

Down the page a ways is the story of the birds who can open doors at Home Depot...as a follow-up, we've found a bird that can pick locks (tip o' the hat to neatorama):

Wednesday 2.21

From New York magazine comes some intriguing advice for parents - when it comes to praising your kids, the idea is not to praise them for smarts, but for effort. Mr. J will be trying this out on Maria and Daniel to see if it works, or if the kids are already wise to the manipulation.

Tuesday 2.20

When in doubt about finding something to post, go with the cute baby animals.

The worst drivers ever, as captured on video. Amazingly, none of them were driving on Route 9.

Weekend 2.16-19

Miller's back Tuesday. Therese Quinn is in for Miller on President's Day. Yes, we'll have the Five Question Quiz.

Here's that video of the birds that know how to open the doors at Home Depot. And in case you were wondering about what happens to the birds when the indoor population grows too large and customers start worrying about bird poop plummeting from above and so forth, well...many big-box stores capture the birds and release them quite a ways away in more natural surroundings. More here.

Thursday 2.15 - 5 QUESTION QUIZ WINNER!

Mary Ellen from Middletown figured out the fifth answer that had everybody stuck: there are 20,388 people named Bob Miller in this country.

Wednesday 2.14

Sorry, no posting today. We're busy shoveling. Snow. As opposed to what we usually shovel.

Tuesday 2.13

The four words we've been waiting for all winter: Pitchers and catchers report.

Medieval tech support! (hat tip: yesbutnobutyes.com) 

Monday 2.12

If watching grass grow (or snow melt) is just too exciting for you, try out watching cheese ripen.

As mentioned this morning, it's www.songtapper.com. Use your space bar to tap out the melody of a song, and it'll figure it out for you. Usually. Sometimes.

Weekend 2.9-11

Pitchers and catchers report next week, so Miller's going on vacation with Frankenberry filling in.

Thursday 2.8

Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics on when it's okay to take your sick kid to day care, and when it's not.

www.cavemanscrib.com - more silly stuff from the Geico people. Don't know how much it'll help sell insurance...

Wednesday 2.7

A pet moose. That's gotta be high-maintenance.

Feel like envying the suits? Check out this graphic of all the corporate jets leaving the Super Bowl on Monday morning:

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Tuesday 2.6

One lucky photographer got a shot of fireworks, a lightning storm, and a comet...all in one shot.

This is no ordinary folding chair:

Monday 2.5

Okay, maybe we'll stay away from sports predictions - however, Miller still thinks Devin Hester will win the Daytona 500. On foot.

Another cure for hiccups...try holding your breath, combined with stretching. The stretching is key.

Weekend 2.2-4

Super Bowl predictions:

Mr. Jones: Bears 19, Colts 17 (OT). In the most anticlimactic ending ever, Bears win on a safety when the Colts long-snapper air-mails one out the back of the end zone.

Miller: Bears 184, Colts 3. Following the game, Brian Urlacher will take up golf and win the Masters by 10 shots over Tiger Woods. The rest of the Bears will head for Afghanistan, where they will locate Osama bin Laden and drag him back to America, parading him down Michigan Avenue in Chicago in the most humiliating outfit available...obviously that's a Minnesota Vikings jersey. bin Laden will then be slow-roasted at Ditka's restaurant.

Do you own a 50-inch flat-screen TV? Are you the laziest human being on the planet? Then you need one of these:

Thursday 2.1

Parents, a heads-up: Jon Stewart is guest-starring on Friday's Groundhog Day edition of Jack's Big Music Show, which is only the coolest kids' show on TV since Kermit worked the stage.

And another heads-up if you're planning a kids' birthday party and freaking out about the plans: check out birthdayswithoutpressure.org and maybe you'll find you don't really need to hire the entire Ringling Brothers circus for your daughter's birthday party.

Timewaster: it's called Wordy and it will eat the rest of your day today.

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