Well, the other Cast of Dads members and I just couldn’t end the year without doing ONE more podcast. Episode #4 is appropriately titled “Making It To Midnight” and if you listen to it, you will see how aptly named it is as well as what is on our minds right now!
The topics of Episode #4 seemed to have a common theme, see if you can figure it out:
- Gifts we Got
- Beer
- Microbrews
- Beer of the Month Club
- New Year’s Traditions
- Drinking in general
- Scotch
- Making it till midnight?
- 2010 Resolutions
- When did we do our first funnel?
- Dr. Does & Naughty Nurse
- Predictions for 2010
As always, the full podcast is available on CastofDads.com and now on iTunes. And be sure to follow Cast of Dads on Twitter at: @castofdads. You can also listen to the podcast below:
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A few weeks ago, a friend pointed out a new site to me called MotherApp. They claimed to take the pain and time lag out of creating applications for mobile devices.
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The MotherApp site lists three different services that they provide:
- Client Services – where they claim to be able to develop custom applications in as little as 9 weeks
- MotherApp BlogEngine – which allows you to share your blog and Twitter streams via a mobile app
- MotherApp Engine – a developer tool that lets you use HTML instead of SDKs to create mobile apps
The offering that immediately jumped out at me was the “MotherApp BlogEngine” so I filled out the form with the required info (which was basically my email address and blog URL) and didn’t think much more of it. (I tend to fill out lots of forms and sign up for many services just to see what they are about.) A day later, I received an email from the MotherApp team asking me for a picture of me or image, a description of my blog and my Twitter account (@hightechdad).
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When my wife and I first met, there was a computer game that we played with our friends called “You Don’t Know Jack” (YDKJ) which has got to be one of the most fun games I have ever played. Ok, I admit it, I played it a lot more than she did. I spent hours in front of a computer with friends (mainly the guys), huddled over a keyboard, trying to answer trivia questions that were presented in creative yet humorous ways. I think I still have the CDs somewhere in my house and would love to bring those out again.
About 13 years later, I’m now presented with a new type of trivia game called “Buzz! Quiz World” for the Sony PlayStation, and when I first started playing it with my kids, I started thinking about YDKJ again (and that is a good thing). Incidentally, you can still play YDKJ online and it’s still a blast.
First, a little about my gaming background. I’m not a hard core gamer. I have spent many late night hours playing Quake, Halo, Need for Speed, and other driving and FPS (First Person Shooters) games but only periodically. I have a Wii (for the kids – yeah right!), a 1st generation Xbox and a N64 (and a PSP and a few DS Lites). When Sony (as part of the Sony DigiDads project) sent us a loaner PlayStation 3 with the promise of some new games to play with, I was definitely excited.
My wife isn’t super happy when I decide to “get my game on” (she is fine with me doing it but gets a bit concerned when I involve the kids or let the kids play on their own). I fully understand her concern (reluctantly) as I’m typically called the 4th child of the household. There have been a few weekend afternoons where my parenting responsibilities have completely evaporated and I have played Guitar Hero with my daughters for hours or (recently) let them go wild playing LittleBigPlanet. That episode (which I will write about later) ended with the game being banned for a while and the kids staying away from gaming for a few weeks.
Buzz! Quiz World
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Just in time for the holidays, the “Cast of Dads” got together for our 1st annual holiday podcast. In Episode #3, titled “Mustaches, Massages & Man Purses“, we discussed a variety of “hot” topics, despite the crazy (snowy) weather blanketing everywhere (except in California where it is just raining).
You can always find the latest episodes as well as the archive on CastofDads.com as well as information on who makes up the Dads. We also have a Twitter account (which you should follow) which is @castofdads.
Episode #3 covered a variety of subjects including:
- Snow Days
- Holiday Gifts We Want
- Mustaches
- Massages and Massage Envy
- Guys like the spa too
- Pedicures? Really?
- Daddy Spa
- Chores
- Modern Family & Men of a Certain Age
- Holiday Traditions
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