On this episode we chat with toy store owner and geek Darren Turbeville about his favorite toys for geek kids of all ages.
If you're in the Healdsburg area, visit one of Darren's toystore, MD Squared dba Toy B Ville, at 401 Center St.
SPEND: Fantastic Contraption
Found on the Make Magazine Blog
SAVE: Free Language Lessons at the BBC blog
GIVE: Recycline
AUDIBLE PICK: Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
OTHER LINKS:
Rickets and other Vitamin D Deficient Diseases May lurk in breastfed babies
Jill Lepore on Stuart Little (Podcast and online article)
LISTENER FEEDBACK:
Jamie writes that that G-Diapers are expensive and that Boobah was created by the BBC folks who created Teletubbies
, but it's a different show.
A couple of things from this week's show. Sheila Tubman moved to Tarrytown. I actually remember this from my 50 or so readings of the book in elementary show.
You were talking about Stuart Little. My oldest son is adopted and I got the DVD of the movie from the library. I was very anxious when the section came where the mice said they were Stuart's parents and took him away. I was afraid that my son might think his birth parents would come and try to take him from us. As that section of the movie came, my anxiety grew. During the section my son said "mom?" in a very serious voice. I asked him what and I was very nervous. Then he said "I want some nuts". The mice were eating the families nuts in the scene. That seems to be the only thing he processed during the scene.
I will have to download the New Yorker podcast.
I love the show. Thanks for all you do.
Posted by: Michelle Waite | September 07, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Love the Fantastic Contraption game. My 6-year-old certainly needs some coaching with it, but we're having fun. A similar game exists at http://kids.discovery.com/games/whizzball/whizzball.html Your listeners may like that a lot too. It's kind of a Shoots-and-ladders sort of game - really cute, and very well done.
Posted by: Paul | October 25, 2008 at 06:29 PM
At last! Someone who understands! Thanks for postnig!
Posted by: Kasara | May 02, 2011 at 07:29 AM