Saturday, October 15, 2011  Stop me if you've heard this one
before: So this dad goes into a PBS event...  A few weeks ago I
was invited to an event PBS was holding. I didn't know anything
about the context of the event, but after realizing my boy was
going to have a day off school that day and after realizing
Arlington, VA wasn't that far from Baltimore, I gave the only
logical answer: "Sure, why not?"  An email days before the event
indicated I've made the right decision. There were going to have
high-end technology product demonstrations of PBS Kids games.
And life-sized PBS Kids characters wandering about the place. In
my head, I was holding my kids' hands as the three of us entered
a large room filled with Curious Georges, cakes, and sexy
robots.  Don't ask me what the sexy robots did there. I guess
they were serving the cakes? My imaginary future is catered by
sexy robots. Sorry, I don't make the rules.   So we reach
Arlington and I recognize the logo on the PBS building, which
gets me a little star-str