Dave

I hope Matheny issued an edict to players’ families that no Cardinals are to be given hunting knives as presents.

At this point, my 8-year-old nephews and I literally have the same wish list gifts. t.co/tiCDLA04

I’m never sure exactly when St. Nicholas Day is, so just to be careful I leave my shoes out in the living room every day of the year.

I want @mythbusters to test the CRT monitor C4 chair bomb down the elevator shaft in Die Hard.

Watching Die Hard & following along with @danzettwoch ‘s undershirt Pantone guide: t.co/C5gN9wCN

Still waiting for the Elf sequels, giant elf helping the cobbler make shoes, and giant elf baking cookies in a tree.

The trick to getting good at doing something (besides doing it a lot) is to think about it a ton so later you can not think about it at all.

On Christmas the local Uptown theater is doing a sing-along Fiddler on The Roof with kosher Chinese carry-out provided.

How long would the groove in a standard LP be if you unwound it into a straight line?

Starting a movement to keep alive the skill of in-car map-folding (and its related endangered skill, Sunday-newspaper folding).

I’m sure Sid would be proud. t.co/GFd4N8DQ

Psychonauts is $2.50 on Steam, and works on Mac. I played a ton of Grim Fandango, but never got around to trying this next from that team.

Son, I’m planting this for you to discover when you figure out how to find Dad’s online past. Tell me you found it & I’ll buy you Legos.

More light than yesterday.

When robots can drive our cars, we can all sit rear-facing, like is apparently so much safer.

Got one of those heirloom tomatoes for the kid, but I don’t think it has much of a chance of lasting to hand down to his offspring.

To make it more realistic, people in the outskirts of the galaxy should’ve mispronounced it Jeddy.

At 1st glance thought we’d found a pregnancy book written by a Time Lord. t.co/LnLDtvCS

Subscribed to the NYTimes paywall, and then added t.co/IbokEXx7 to my AdBlock list.

There are some months the Dark Sky app is less useful in Seattle. t.co/66cnid2o

Nabbed the best seats in the house. (@ Cinerama for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey w/ 2 others) [pic]: t.co/e1pn0QWK

iTunes should allow a Guilty Pleasure playlist. Songs there wouldn’t appear in your normal library.

It hadn’t occurred to me that getting sunglasses for Christmas in Seattle might be a bit depressing. t.co/0Pwxidtk

Five letters that make for a great Christmas. t.co/Z93M9a4H

People wonder what icon will replace the disk for “save,” but every day we carbon copy people in our emails.