"Let's build tomorrow"

I came across this interesting panel discussion with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference. Although I'm not a Mac fan, I like Steve Jobs because his personal story is inspiring in many ways (check out one of his bios or go see "Pirates of Silicon Valley"). The man has passion, vision, and the resilience to bounce back when the going get's tough - important traits if you want to be successful in whatever you do.

Check out this vid and listen to what he says about dealing with the past at around 1:54 to 2:25 into this clip.



To see the entire coverage, go here.

Pokemon!

Last week, my wife and I received Nathan's pre-K report card and saw that he got pretty high marks. We were so proud of him and told him that whenever he gets high marks in school, we'll give him a prize. He was thrilled. Soon, he would always ask us when he would get his prize and so yesterday, I took a quick trip to Target and bought him, what I thought, something he would really like - Pokemon trading cards.

So I went home and when I finally told him that I had his prize, he was excited. When I showed it to him, he was thrilled and said "This is the best gift ever!". I know this won't be the last time he'd say this.

He's been watching Pokemon for a while and we'd done a few projects making Pokemon paper crafts so he was fascinated with the trading cards he received. I actually do not know how to play the game itself so we went to the Pokemon website and started watching the tutorials. At first I felt intimidated with having to learn all the rules but it turns out that the game is pretty simple. I also thought the game has some learning value to it as it involves making choices, matching cards, and doing simple math which I think are helpful skills kids can learn while having fun.

Perhaps I can now justify getting a Nintendo DS and this for Father's day.

geek+christian+dad

Welcome! This blog was put together because...

• I love to "geek" - meaning I love tinkering with stuff and finding ways to make things better. I also believe technology is a gift that is "suppose to" make doing things easier.
  
• I'm a Christian - before anything else. I just did not label this blog "christiangeekdad" because it sounded awkward.
• I'm a dad - a father of 4 active young kids. I believe that fatherhood is not a passive job but an active duty in raising children, loving them and bringing out the best in them.