Neil Yan Dot Com

We lived through Michael Jackson, Atari, Commadore 64, PET computers, Rubics Cube and a million other cool things. Or so we thought. Now we have the INTERNET!! I going to have to say, it blows everything else that I’ve seen in my lifetime out of the water. Where was the Internet when we were kids…facebook, twitter, online shopping, and “other sites”?

Don’t get me wrong, Space Invaders was awesome when we were 12 years old! But a 12 year old today would look at Space Invaders and laugh.

Case in point. British Petroleum is responsible for that monster oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The oil platform caught on fire, tumbled over, and the pipe at the bottom of the sea broke and is leaking roughly 5000 barrels of oil into the ocean PER DAY!! It’s the biggest oil disaster since, I don’t know, EVER!! It’s been 4 weeks now and a good chunk of the coast line is tainted with oil. People’s livelihood is at stake. Wild life is dramatically affected!! So, what happens. BP PUTS IT ON THE INTERNET!! That’s AWESOME!! They put a camera down 1.5Km in the ocean so that the world can see the leak!! Well, really they want us to see all the efforts they are making to plug up the pipe, but nothing has been successful. So, all you see is a leaky pipe!!

Check it out here!

Isn’t the Internet awesome!! What will Ben have to look forward to when he’s my age?

My plans to end my amateur golf career when I hit a hole-in-one almost came true yesterday. It was the 10th hole at Highland Gates GC in Aurora. The score card said it was 206 yards to the hole. I brought my driver, but chose to borrow my golf partner’s 3 wood, which I’ve never used before. Here is how close I came…

Alright! You hear about other people’s kids who throw tantrums, but you always hope your kid never becomes one of those kids. Ben, officially, is one of those kids! BUT HE’S ONLY 15 MONTHS OLD!! What do we have to look forward to when he’s 2 or even 5? But we think he’s different.

Most kids who throw tantrums don’t care where they are (ie. in the middle isle of a busy Walmart or in the busy parking lot lane on a Saturday afternoon). Ben, on the other hand, seems to only do it at home or at his grandmothers.

Most kids just toss themselves onto the 1) pavement 2) cement sidewalk or 3) muddy leaves with little regard to how it’s going to hurt when they slam their craniums down. Ben, on the other hand, starts to whine a little bit, sits down, does a shoulder check to see how hard the pavement is going to be and then decides 1) if it’s soft (like carpet), “throw head down quickly and cry loudly” or 2) if the pavement is hard (like tile or hardwood floor), ”lean into the pavement making sure the head doesn’t hit the pavement too hard, AND THEN CRY LOUDLY”. Either way, the shoulder check is important….he’s got to protect the head. He’s figured out that hard pavement + soft cranium = “a lot of pain that parents just brush off”.

In all cases, he’ll cry for maybe 45 seconds, look around to see that no one is really paying attention, and then pick himself up, wipe any tears that may have flowed, and the pick up the closes toy/object on the floor and proceed to put it into his mouth. He’ll walk over to the closest person, smile and then hand them the toy/object. All is good again.

That’s my boy!!