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I found a funny picture that I had to share. Click the link below to see Ninjas on Ice!

I found a great set of Flickr pictures that show classic video game scenes re-created with Legos. Taking a look at these reminded me of how much fun I used to have with Legos (and how much fun I still have with video games). I think the only thing geekier than that would be re-creating Dungeons & Dragons scenes with LEgos. Hmmm...where did I store my Legos at? :)

See all of the pictures here.

My father's day was great today! I had a wonderful breakfast at someone else's house (thanks grandparents!), got a few things done around the house (but not too much), and played a few games of Mario Kart for Wii, my excellent Father's day gift. I hope the other dads out there had as good of a day or better!

An article today on GeekDad at Wired got me thinking:

Why is it that I can remember the damn Konami code from when I was, like, 10 years old, but I can't remember to give the damn cat his medicine every morning???? Surely it should be routine now, certainly more routine than punching in that code at the beginning of Contra on my old NES. Damn I hate getting old.

I recently stumbled across a great online store for science geeks! Edmund Scientific is an online catalog of all kinds of science experiment equipment, models, robotics kits...almost any kind of geeky scientific toy/project you can think of, really.

I can already tell that my son is very much into music, hopefully because we bought him lots of toys and activities related to music. I'm hoping that once he gets older, I'll be able to foster his interest in science by getting him some of these things and doing activities together with him on the weekends.

I'll hold off on introducing him to Dungeons and Dragons until he's into high school. I don't want to jump the gun on too many geeky activities all at once, which could possibly force him into the 'no girls will talk to me becasue I'm weird' category. Parenting makes you walk such a fine line, I guess... :)

I was looking for fun outdoor activities around the Austin area and came across a miniature train I didn't know existed. It is located in Round Rock (just north of Austin), and it looks like fun. It's called the Cedar Rock Railroad, and it's just 2.50 per person for the ride (infants under 1 are free!).

It's open year round on weekends, and I think I may try to take my son to ride it sometime in the near future. I'm not sure how it compares to the Zilker train, but I'll post more if we get a chance to go soon. I do like the Zilker train, but since I live in north Austin, this one may be easier to get to.