Tag archive for ‘Kids’
Puzzle Paint (4)
9/29/09 •
Puzzle Paint is an iPod Touch and iPhone app with a challenging new gameplay. There have been plenty of block based games, but Puzzle Paint is different because as the challenge progresses, you have to keep track of multiple color balls responding to the same controls. Not only does this provide logistical difficulty, but you ... Read More
FunBoard (2)
8/18/09 •
I’ll be frank. I’m a little confused by FunBoard. Created by CoolKidSoftware and available for free on iTunes, this kids app is purported to be educational and catered toward younglings from the age of 18 months to roughly 4 years of age, but after some thorough tinkering on my part, and on the part of ... Read More
Block Drop (1)
8/17/09 •
Epiphany came amidst my overwealming stress of keeping my two jobs and my sanity in the kind of balance you achieve while sparring with a bear. This delightful moment of clarity: one advantage of having an iPhone is an immediate escape from reality through apps. One way to do so is become immersed within one ... Read More
Water Balloon Drop Hollywood (4)
7/28/09 •
There’s something so satisfying about pegging someone unawares with a water balloon. It’s something vestigial from childhood, this desire to catch someone off guard and pelt him with an array of plastic bombs in some very boyish act of guerrilla warfare. Of course, on the receiving end it’s not only annoying, it’s drenching, and generally ... Read More
Whole Foods Market Recipes (0)
6/19/09 •
Last night my boyfriend’s mother came storming in, purple dress in a flutter, and shouted in her usual asking manner, “You better make something delicious tonight! I told Aubrey you went to culinary school!” True, I did, and I do enjoy piecing together ridiculously immaculate caramel shards and tempered chocolate as much as the next ... Read More
Adam’s Art (0)
6/11/09 •
As a child, I thoroughly enjoyed stuffed animals – a collection of about 200 that I sorrowfully lost at the age of 15, an act I coyly refer to as “The Great Stuffed Animal Removal Act of 2001” – but what I truly enjoyed was anything involving crayons and markers. I loved to draw, color ... Read More
