Sammy turned six months old today, and we thought he deserved a shave and a haircut. Well, the haircut anyway. He squirmed very little, and took it all in stride. We think he looks even cuter – how about you? Check out the gallery here!
Sam’s 6 Month Update
So, Sam is 6 months old today. In the picture above, he’s seen tipping over his toy basket. He likes to dive in head-first – so cute! It’s been a big week of firsts – he took to using his sippy cup like a natural, and we plan to try some rice cereal on Sunday. He can also pull himself up on the rails of the crib. So Joey lowered the matress to avoid any escapee babies scrambling around the house. His crawling, which began a few weeks back, is now even more advanced. He’s getting around with astounding speed, so baby proofing is going to need to be accelerated. Amy removed some things from low shelves and such, but we have much more to do. Sam’s 6-month checkup is Monday – we’ll update after the results are in!
Sam goes to NYC
So after abandoning my family for four or five trips to NYC over the last few weeks, I took Amy and soon-to-be six-month-old Sam along this week. They played while I was in meetings Thursday and Friday, and we spent the weekend from Cousin Miriam’s place on the Upper East side. The photo above was taken from Herb Marx’s apartment, overlooking the United Nations, the East River and Queens/Brooklyn. Take a look at the gallery here.
Gametap is Live!
Turner Broadcasting System’s several-years-in-the-making broadband gaming service which I blogged about a few months back has launched to the public today.
Joystiq has coverage here, and Kotaku points out a set of viral faux-blogs intended to bring consumers into the new service.
There’s at least five sites out there, as reported below by Joystiq:
- What is ADAT?: A site dedicated to people suffering from Third Dimensia
- Upgradius: Think Gizmondo for video game characters
- X-Treme Platform Jumping School: The name says it all
- First Person Get Aways: A travel agency that specializes in video game vacations
- Jalopixel: A game car site with a very Gawkerish name.
After you wander about these blogs you’ll eventually get to the Gametap site, with this snarky little quote:
Well played. You found us out. That page you just came from? Not real. And there’s more like it out there. You see, you’ve fallen prey to one of our little traps to make friends with the world. We want to be your friend.
I’m not going to get into the arguments of fake marketing blogs. Draw your own conclusions. I’m just happy to see Gametap finally exposed to the public. I’ve been fooling with the app for a while, and it’s pretty entertaining to go back to the games of our youth, and to have access to some more recent PC titles I was too lazy to go out and buy. There’s some discussion on Joyqstiq about most of this being available via emulators and ROMs, but even if those are free, they are buggy, often a pain to setup, etc. I think it’s worth a few bucks to package these older titles in a cohesive manner, and let me drop in, play, and drop back out when I have a few moments. Oh, and the classic photo from Joystiq at the top of this entry is definitely a keeper.