When You’re Ready to Buy What You REALLY Wanted for Christmas

When you’re all finished showing off your new sweaters and ties to your coworkers and you’re able to fit back into those ever-shrinking pants of yours (WHAT cause them to continually shrink!!??) set yourself down and visit the:

Shack Shopping Mall

At the Shack Shopping Mall you’ll find dad things that’ll keep you dreaming for hours! The best thing about this site is the home theatre forum area here you can learn a lot just by reviewing prior posts or post questions you want answered. The experts behind the site and the site “groupies” will walk you through your questions and you’ll end up making better purchase decisions when you’re ready.

Sean Taylor will be Missed

As a lifelong Redskins fan my heart is very heavy today as I learn that Sean Taylor passed away early this morning from a gunshot wound he received during a robbery at his home near Miami.

Sean was just 24 years old and was just starting out on his journey as a dad with his 1 year old daughter Jackie. His coaches and teammates commented on how much his life had changed since becoming a father.

Here’s what Clinton Portis had to say:

Redskins teammate Clinton Portis also played with Taylor at the University of Miami. He had sensed a new maturity in his close friend.

“It’s hard to expect a man to grow up overnight,” Portis said. “But ever since he had his child, it was like a new Sean, and everybody around here knew it. He was always smiling, always happy, always talking about his child.”

We’ll miss you Sean Taylor!

I think I ate too much

Zzzzzzzz….

Thank You World from the Virginia Tech Hokies

Like most people I was very shaken when the VA Tech shootings occurred not long ago. We Virginians listened to it unfold on our radio stations and local news stations as we heard the grim details roll on like a never ending nightmare. It was yet another senseless act committed by a soulless lunatic against our young.

Equally as moving was watching the news and learning about the love pouring out of every corner of the world to the students, lost and living, their families and the entire Hokie community.

VA Tech students wanted to say thanks to everyone around the world so they formed a giant human “VT THANKS YOU” and a satellite captured it on the photograph above. Very cool.

On a side note - When I added the post with photographs from the early 1900’s  to the site earlier today I had no idea the event at VA Tech was to occur. Strange coincidence…. That story is here: Mole and Thomas classic photographs now in our ‘Cool‘ category.

There’s a website you can visit for more information and photographs here: http://www.hokiesthanktheworld.org.

Go Hokies!

David

Human Photographs from World War I

These Mole and Thomas classic photographs were taken during and after World War I as part of the U.S. support the war campaign. The photographs must have taken hours to setup and provide a nice contrast to the naked human photographs that our generation will be remembered for 90 years from now!

The photograph above was taken in 1918 with the help of 30,000 soldiers from Camp Custer in Battle Creek Michigan. I wonder if this could be pulled off in this day and age with the short attention spans and busy schedules.

This human Statue of Liberty was taken at Camp Dodge in Iowa and included 18,000 men.

The Liberty Bell below was the most difficult to shoot as they needed 11 times more men for the beam section that the bell hangs from to maintain proportionality.

On another note, as I checked out these photographs my mom emailed to me earlier today it struck me how fortunate we are to be able to even be able see these incredible photos from the early 1900’s. No trip to a museum, or art gallery, or a postcard or print… just a quick email address and a click. If the men  and women in these photographs could only see them like we’re seeing them.

The New dadz.com

Wasn’t that long ago that communicating with someone meant a face-to-face conversation, a phone call, or a letter. To think about how far we’ve come in the last 10 years or so is mind boggling.

Our newly launched dadz.com website will be focusing on the “internet dads” that are either professionally involved with the internet (webmasters, developers, dot com industry, etc…) or have become totally reliant on the tremendous tools and resources the internet has to offer dads and their families.

We’ll be gathering stories and articles from dads from all walks of life and piecing together a valuable online resource for internet dads and for dads that may feel a little left behind.

If you have something to contribute or ask please just post a comment. We’d love to hear from you.

Special first post

You’ll only have to wait a little bit longer!

If you’re here for the directory just click here:

DIRECTORY

Thanks!

Dad

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