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I am an Isis Parenting Fellow for 2012

January 24th, 2012 by Drew in Blogging 2 Comments

I started as an Isis Parenting Fellow today. I went to the Needham store to have a meeting with other Isis Parenting Fellows and to discuss the strategic plan for what we are going to do for the coming year. I’m pretty excited for this new adventure and look forward to introducing you more to the Isis Parenting brand which is pretty amazing. Isis Parenting is not just a Baby Store it is so much more than that. There is a whole education and classroom component to the company. There are Prenatal classes, New Moms, 2nd Time Moms, Breastfeeding, Fitness & Massage and even Sleep Consults.

I stuck around after the meeting and I learned more about the store and the company and toured the place. I’m really looking forward to working more with Isis Parenting in the coming year.
Meet the BenSpark Robot

January 24th, 2012 by Drew in Photo-A-Day No Comments

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I was watching GeekBeat.tv and catching up on past episodes. Episode #331 mentioned a site where you could make a custom robot. The company is MyRobotNation. The robots are created through a 3D printer. I thought that they used a makerbot 3D printer but this is an industrial one that is more complex. The interface is really sweet too. You choose all sorts of parts for the robot as well as colors and then you also position the robot arms and legs. So I made one and it arrived yesterday. Eva saw it and now she wants to make one for herself. read more!

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Review/Giveaway MEGA Bloks Need For Speed Custom Garage

January 23rd, 2012 by Drew in Contest, Photo-A-Day, Review 16 Comments

Photo-A-Day #2481

SwagsGiving may have ended a few months ago but I had one more very cool prize that I am happy to give away. I got a MEGA Bloks Need For Speed Custom Garage to give away. Need for Speed is a very hot racing game for your gaming consoles and MEGA Bloks captures these amazing cars with their custom garage and other building sets. Eva and I tested out the NFS Custom Garage today and found it to be a pretty fun playset.

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Review: Real Steel DVD and Blu-Ray

January 23rd, 2012 by Drew in Review No Comments

Back in the summer I got the chance to see the movie Real Steel in a sneak preview. I was very impressed with this movie. It had elements of Rocky, Over The Top, Transformers and The Champ combined. The movie comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday January 24th. The movie is the story of Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) who was a professional boxer before the sport became dominated by robots because the audience demanded more and more action. Robots could deal out a tremendous amount of damage on each other that humans could not compete with. So now Charlie is boxing robots (using a sophisticated remote control), lives out of a truck and is a bit of a dirtbag. A loveable dirtbag but a dirtbag none the less. Charlie lies, cheats, steals.
Charlie’s world is turned upside down when his ex-wife dies and he is reconnected with his son. Charlie does not change his ways but rather he takes Max along with him to the seedy underground of unsanctioned robot fights. Luckily Max is pretty smart and he finds an old sparring robot, he makes a connection with the robot and fixes it up enough to begin having it fight.

Even though the robots are a huge part of the story they are a backdrop to a father/son story, personal redemption story and there is some boxing robots in the mix as well. The movie is a lot of fun and is filled with some great action.

The Blu-Ray has even more fun features to expand out the story. There is even a SECOND SCREEN that you can watch on your tablet device while enjoying the movie.

After the jump I have some exclusive videos about the movie as well as the official press release. But before you go there check out this slideshow of great photos from the movie.

Boxing, Bots & Human Co-Stars!

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Way To Go Patriots!

January 22nd, 2012 by Drew in Photo-A-Day No Comments

Photo-A-Day #2480

The Patriots are headed to the Super Bowl in a couple of weeks. Eva was so excited to watch the game. she doesn’t quite understand it and to tell you the truth I’m not 100% either. She does love to cheer though. I cam downstairs after sleeping for the afternoon and Eva was watching the game. I gave her the Gund Gridiron Bear and she had fun playing with that. She would ask us which paw to press. Offense, Defense, Boo or Touchdown. She loved it. Andrew had some patriots gear on today too but since he’s a spit up machine (that is what happened to my Patriots shirt) and soiled his clothes. So no cute one of the two of them in their patriots outfits. read more!

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