Geeky Gifts for New Dads, The Goodfather 187
The Moose at Dr.MOZ writes "The Goodfather, 'for the baby he can't refuse.'
The Goodfather is a custom-boxed CD-ROM that teaches new dads hundreds of baby skills and baby related definitions through a fun parody of a famous American gangster epic (The Godfather). The baby/parenting topics in The Goodfather CD-ROM were selected for men by experienced dads and grandfathers, and edited by licensed nurse-midwives to ensure the material is medically sound.
In addition to the hundreds of baby skills lessons and definitions, The Goodfather also has a Baby Name Book with approximately 15,000 baby names and a Baby Card Maker which allows new dads to make and print their own baby cards. New dads choose from dozens of "new dad" card-types with provided art, or they are able to import JPGs to create their own customized baby cards! The Goodfather runs on both Windows® and Macintosh® systems and is proving to be the next 'must have' gift for the sometimes ignored new dad on the baby shower list."
Relevancy? (Score:5, Funny)
I think the most important thing for a Dad who knows nothing about kids is to learn more about their kids. Spend time with them every day, even if you don't do much. The kid will set the agenda and you can answer questions as they come up especially since you can use Wikipedia and Google.
Geeks don't procreate... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Geeks don't procreate... (Score:5, Funny)
they fork.
Re:Geeks don't procreate... (Score:2)
javaGeeks.clone();
Put them to use: "Baby's First Debugger -- GDB" (Score:3, Funny)
I can see the ads:
Teach your baby C++ in 21 days, let him debug that code for you, while you play Doom.
Or how about
"Database Administration for Babies" - put the pager in his crib and walk way to play D&D. Let your baby help you instead of just eating, crying and pooping all day.
Re:Put them to use: "Baby's First Debugger -- GDB" (Score:2)
Let your baby help you instead of just eating, crying and pooping all day.
I've been around slashdot long enough to hear all the cliche's, but I think that most slashdot readers definately do more than eat, cry, and poop.
Re:Put them to use: "Baby's First Debugger -- GDB" (Score:2)
When I was a toddler I helped my Dad with his Tandy TRS-80. It had a clicky red button I liked to press. HE didn't seem to think I was helping much though when his work was reset
Re:Relevancy? (Score:2)
Just say no to this rubbish (Score:5, Interesting)
You may be aware that Scott Adams actually had hundreds of letters from women saying, in effect, that they were either married to a Dilbert or would like to marry one. Marrying a jock is fine till he (a) just starts playing around (b) has his mid-life crisis (c) the boiler fails and he's helpless while the geek just gets in there, criticises the design of the controller and the user interface and fixes it in thirty minutes.
Re:Just say no to this rubbish (Score:3, Funny)
You've got the wrong controller then. Go buy a proper geeky controller that'll let you set boiler on-off times for every day of the week. And I only bought one bcos the price came down and it was cheaper than building one myself...
Also on that theme, we're about to buy a UPS because our gas-fired central heating needs mains electricity to turn it on. If the electric craps out, the UPS will let us keep running the heating for a while. And of course there's also t
Re:Just say no to this rubbish (Score:2)
Buy? Real geeks design and build their own - then patronise people with inferior ones for not doing the same.
Re:Just say no to this rubbish (Score:2)
You'll need a gen, not a UPS (offtopic reply) (Score:2)
Being totally serious, I recommend:
4 off 110AH or equivalent open lead acid batteries
3 or 4 step battery charger (can be quite low rated e.g. 4A, but you must have the multistep ones that do not destroy your cells if left on)
Proper sine or modified sine inverter rated at least 500W
Join the batteries in parallel using 25mm sq flexible cable (you will need a serious crimp tool for the terminals, hire
Re:Just say no to this rubbish (Score:2)
We already knew that there were homosexual geeks though.
Oh, you mean geek females
I was teasing about geeks not gettin' any. You must be new here, because it's one of those running Slashdot jokes that stories involving sex don't belong on Slashdot.
Re:Just say no to this rubbish (Score:3, Funny)
Huh? What do you mean? The story is about babies... I don't see the connection.
Re:Just say no to this rubbish (Score:2)
Re:Just say no to this rubbish (Score:3, Informative)
You may be aware that Scott Adams actually had hundreds of letters from women saying, in effect, that they were either married to a Dilbert or would like to marry one. Marrying a jock is fine till he (a) just starts playing around (b) has his mid-life crisis (c) the boiler fails and he's helpless while the geek just gets in there, criticises the design of the controller and the user interface and fixes it in thirty minutes.
What you've just stated is what I've said one thousand times.
Women wan
Little if Any (geek dad here) (Score:2)
-everphilski-
Re:Relevancy? (Score:2)
Re:Relevancy? (Score:2)
There's a difference between knowing where your kid is and what they are probably doing, and letting them roam free with markers and spray paint, or their pants around their ankles.
How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
How is this on Slashdot? This offers nothing new, nothing exciting. We have had CD-ROM's of videos coupled with card makers for years. This boils down to nothing more than an advertisement for the manufacters of the product. Even, the description the poster used is nothing more than an ad.
Are the moderaters THAT bad?
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
With the current singal-to-noise ratio, we are slowly coming closer to that of TV. The next step will actual posts being subsidized by advertisers.
"This post brought to you by Microsoft Windows Vista. Vista, for all your computing needs!"
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2)
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2)
=]
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2)
I'd like to reply to this post, but I have to deal with that wacky next door neighbor. And seeing as it's getting near the holiday season, I should probably go and learn a valuable lesson about life and the real meaning of Christmas from a homeless person I randomly encounter on the street.
While we're on the subject of editorial idiocy, I just saw an article at NYTimes.com entitled "Web Logs Test Chinese Sensors" Hm, did th
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2)
That would never happen because then it would be too obvious. This is all about keeping the actual advertisment underneath the radar, because most geeks react negatively to advertising.
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:1)
Verbatim advertisement (Score:1)
http://thriftyboutique.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_thr iftyboutique_archive.html#113089043544507719 [blogspot.com] (lots of images)
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
1. You must be new around here.
2. "The Moose at Dr. Moz held a gun to his head, and assured Samzenpus, that either this useless marketing or his brains would be on the front page of Slashdot."
3. "Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that marketing piece. I don't want Samzenpus coming off of his shift with no CDROM in his hands, alright?"
4. "What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?"
5. "Samzenpus, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to hock my wares on the front page of your website. And may your first child be a masculine child."
6. [Slashdot readers] "What the hell is this?"
[CmdrTaco] "It's a marketing message. It means Samzenpus sleeps with the salesmen."
7. [Samzenpus] "Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this front page posting as gift on my jumping the shark day."
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:1)
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2)
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2)
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 7O22WI [amazon.com]
There's a "See more products by this manufacturer," and the manufacturer is "Dr. MOZ," so once again this is just a guy/corporation spamming Slashdot with his product as a way to line his own pocket. Additionally, Amazon lists this product as having been first released on January 29, 2005, nearly 10 months ago, so this isn't even a new product. I wonder how many times this guy has submit
Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? (Score:2)
You must be new here! Welcome to Slashdot!
You guys have all missed the joke. (Score:2)
Act Now! (Score:2)
Act now!!
Slashdot getting low on funds?
But Wait! There's More! (Score:2)
Tip #87 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tip #87 (Score:3, Funny)
ALWAYS SHAKE A BABY
Re:Tip #87 (Score:2, Funny)
Shaking it up real nice now. Shaking so hard you can't shake no more. Keeping it loose and let me tell you, ain't gonna be no crying from no one no more, dig?
Shake it up real good now.
Is nothing sacred? (Score:5, Insightful)
Where's
Less, not worse. (Score:5, Insightful)
Window of opportunity (Score:2)
Anyway, I've gotta go now...I have to get over to Google to search for...uh...porn. Yeah, that's it. Innocent, non-Slashdot-related porn. Later, suckers!
Wrong day (Score:1)
Feature Req: Hide editor's posts from search.pl (Score:2, Funny)
No fancy instructions needed (Score:5, Insightful)
Trust me, I know. As in my "firstborn were twins and we did just fine".
Re:No fancy instructions needed (Score:5, Insightful)
We are biologically programmed to be parents, it is what we do. Certainly, some are better than others, and there are some that are just plain crap, but in my view the proclavity for telling parent what they should and shouldn't be doing (indeed, can and can't do) does more harm than good.
In my view, the most important thing to being a parent is being confident and relaxed. This is very hard if you are too wound up about making sure you are obeying all the rules in all the baby book, tv programs, news paper articles and government guidelines. This can make most people stressed, and stressed parents = bad parents.
Small kids don't understand the spoken word to well, but they are experts at empathy - if you are unsure they will know it, and they will take advantage of it. So long as you are confident in what you do, engage with them on their level, remain consitant (most of the time, we are not robots after all), and use some commen sence, everything else will fall into place. And yes, there are some ppl who just do not get parenting at all and do need some help, that is what families and socity are for, you cannot replace concerned human interaction with a CD-ROM or goverment issued pamphlet.
Re:No fancy instructions needed (Score:2)
Yeah, when our first was on the way, we'd go to a store, burger king, or pretty much anywhere, and everyone would ask my wife if she was pregnant. No, moron, she's smuggling a beach ball. I mean she weighed 120 lbs before she got pregnant, and she's 6 ft tall... it was pretty obvious. And then, all of 'em would ask if it was our first, and when we told people that it was, the only answer we ever got is "Ooooh, everything in your life is about to change".
I mean, on the one hand, I got so sick of hearing i
Re:No fancy instructions needed (Score:2)
I remember getting kind of annoyed by everyone telling us the same thing. It's just one of those things that you can't begin to comprehend until you're actually there so such generic "advice" isn't exactly helpful. But of course that doesn't mean it isn't true--everything does cha
Re:No fancy instructions needed (Score:2)
Ergo: You cannot claim objectively you are doing fine until you can legally drink a beer with them.
Re:No fancy instructions needed (Score:2)
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Re:No fancy instructions needed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No fancy instructions needed (Score:5, Funny)
Press release (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Press release (Score:3, Interesting)
wow.. (Score:5, Informative)
15,000 names?! (Score:2, Funny)
Insulting... (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't know which is more annoying: that Slashdot publishes ads as stories, or that they have to be insulting about it. I mean, really, would it really be impossible to think that people are capable of making the giant leap of insight from "GoodFather" to "GodFather" without needing to spell it out ?
Re:Insulting... (Score:2)
Serenity Now!! (Score:1)
Call now, operators are standing by (Score:3, Interesting)
PS I have some products I would like to advertise on Slashdot as well, please contact me with pricing information.
This is important stuff (Score:5, Interesting)
I've already seen the usual "This is news?" posts, so here's my experience. This matters because there are some nerds that meet a member of the opposite sex, score, and have a kid.
Something like this could have been handy when I was a new dad, seven plus years ago. As it was, I hit gold when I did a Yahoo search on "colic", which my kid had. Some enterprising geek dad came up with a series of rotating images that calmed kids down. So when 3am rolled around and it was my turn to console the unconsolable I would fire up that web page and ALT+TAB between that page and Baldur's Gate. I actually think Baldur's Gate had a more calming influence than the colic web page - what could be more soothing and calming than leading a party through kobold infested mines?
As for the advice about Baby Showers? If you're a man don't attend. Not all things are equal and I'd rather be knee deep in an imploded Diaper Genie [playtexbaby.com] than at another baby shower... It's pure humiliation to listen to what women talk about those things. It was probably a significant reason the standing army was invented.
My advice is buy yourself a BabyBjorn [babybjorn.com] so you can do normal stuff without worrying about the baby crawling into an open pit or getting mauled by a household pet. These things let you hang the infant off the front or back. If it hangs in front with the little geek-to-be facing outwards they'll watch your computer screen for hours. It helps to have something other than /. up, like Baldur's Gate - a little bit more to watch. My kid particularly enjoyed it when the mage hit third level and started leveling the playing field with fireballs.
He'll grow up to be a geek yet ;-)
I second the BabyBjorn (Score:2)
No, it bloody well isn't "important stuff" (Score:2)
This matters because there are some nerds that meet a member of the opposite sex, score, and have a kid.
And no, it doesn't matter. If a new parent needs to find info about sprog maintenance, there are eleventy bajillion other sites where he can do just that. Similarly, items related to cooking, DIY, clothing, etc. are off-topic even thought geeks cook, eat, and wear clothes. Leave
Re:No, it bloody well isn't "important stuff" (Score:2)
And no, it doesn't matter.
I stand corrected. Sheesh ... what was I thinking? When we have someone like you around to clue all /. readers into what really matters, we don't have to think.
Re:This is important stuff (Score:2)
3. You don't get to cast Fireball until fifth level.
Well, darn - I stand corrected. Fireball is a third level spell granted at fifth level. But I do know quite a bit about Pokemen. The rest? No chance of a witty comeback for such truth!
I'm Done. (Score:3, Interesting)
I just can't keep picking through the blatant ad stories, totally irrelevant junk, shockingly incompetent editing
Re:I'm Done. (Score:1, Insightful)
You'll be back tomorrow, or hell, later today, because for all the crap like this that spews out of slashdot, whenever a good story comes along, and on
Re:I'm Done. (Score:2)
Re:I'm Done. (Score:2)
(Not that I should talk with my abysmal 6 figure UID. This type of post will usually cue #10000 or so making a comment about my UID, followed by #1000, ad infinitum...)
World plug ever (Score:4, Interesting)
Besides the fact that this has nothing to do with technology (and please don't point out that it is a multimedia-cd, that is hardly noteworthy) nor does it bring any relative news of any kind of social, legal or political struggle. This is the sort of plug that might appear on foxnews or somesuch. One can only wonder if the poster confused slashdot.org with loveourchildrenusa.org [loveourchildrenusa.org]. This, surely, is the most antithesis to the website's slogan. Newsflash for editors, "stuffit!", say the commentators. Babysitting techniques indeed! Now all they need is our creditcard numbers and expiration dates.
Stupid self help videos (Score:2)
I'll either use the skills my parents taught me, or simply abandon my children and allow them to be raised by their elderly grandparents. Either way, I'll save $30 by not buying a video.
Re:Stupid self help videos (Score:5, Funny)
Wolves. I've heard that sometimes if you abandon your kids, wolves will adopt them and raise them as their own. Plus, that'd so be cool- like, maybe you'd be at this party, and this lady would be like, "MY son goes to Yale and he's going to be a high-powered lawyer. What does YOUR son do?", and you'd be like, "So freakin' what, lady? My son was raised by freakin' WOLVES. He can rip a moose's throat out with his bare teeth and he made alpha male at fifteen."
Re:Stupid self help videos (Score:2)
See the rhymes in those nifty cards? (Score:2)
A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh. . . .
(No, its Gorey of course . . . )
Gad, this article was not interesting.
Wow, ads you can't adblock!!!!111 that is news!:-) (Score:3, Funny)
The ad is news!
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Leave the baby. (Score:3, Funny)
All I know about babies I learned from Star Trek.. (Score:5, Interesting)
The episode I have in mind is where Spock is presented with a baby, which makes squalling noises until Dr. McCoy shows Spock how it is done.
- hold the baby so its' spine rests on the fore arm; left arm is preferred - the natural reflex is to hold the baby close to your chest; give in to it - your heartbeat is a reassuring sound to a newborn - newborns breath incredibly lightly, so the panic of "is s/he still breathing?" should be expected
There is nothing more profound and scary then being presented with a new life; especially one that is totally dependent on your care.
Here is a hint: pass the bad baggage back, pass the good stuff on
There is a lot of good stuff that a geek has to offer: playfulness, curiousity and a free spirit are but a few of the bonuses of a Geek parent.
But the greatest gift you can give to the new souls in your life, to everyone, actually, is just being yourself. Warts and all.
Filters Request (Score:5, Interesting)
I'd really, really appreciate if I could mark stories as "spam" and
Since
Just an idea, you know...
WoW has made me a good father! (Score:3, Interesting)
I work nights. My wow habits used to kind of make my wife worried, but now I just follow the routine.
Play wow for 2 hours.
Change diaper
Feed 2oz breastmilk
burp
Change diaper again if needed.
My wife think's i'm such a good father
--toqer
Geeky Gifts? (Score:2, Insightful)
I actaully hope this gets duped.... (Score:3, Funny)
Haynes Baby Manual (Score:2, Funny)
Redundant product (Score:2)
Geek has twins... stops gaming... (Score:3, Interesting)
Seriously, this would have been appreciated when they (www.lifewithtwins.com) were born... those first two weeks kicked our ass!
Bullshit. (Score:2)
Re:Hmm (Score:2)
Re:What the hell? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What the hell? (Score:2)
yea, alot. its just a dumb stereotype. stop propogating it
Re:What the hell? (Score:2)
But yes, it was a joke.
i am a geek, and am rarely without a SO.
Re:Good for naming servers, I suppose (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Good for naming servers, I suppose (Score:1)
The geek method for parenting: (Score:2)
But biology teaches you that you have to procreate, for the survival of your magnificent ego^H^H^Hgenes. In fact, you would like to have 10 kids or more, if you would not have to raise them.
You can, and make other people happy in the process too. Just donate
Re:Good for naming servers, I suppose (Score:1)
Are you doing a headstand?
Re:Talk about misplaced advertising (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Goodbye slashdot (Score:2)
Oh, dear gawd, if only it were this easy to get rid of all the trolling AC's :)
And yeah, this article sucks. Hope the submitter at least paid the moderator a handsome sum for the ad.
Re:Usually... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Usually... (Score:1)
CmdrTaco is trying to tell us what we should give him as a present. I just wonder what he's going to do with half a million GoodFather CDs.
Yes (Score:1)