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My 2-year-old son, Alonso, wears Iron Man pants, Iron Man footwear and Iron Man shirt by day. By night, he wears Iron Man pajamas. He drinks from an Iron Man cup and eats from an Iron Man plate. It's easy getting him dressed, and he's easy to spot in a crowd. Alonso wants nothing more than a rowdy good guy/bad guy brawl that ends with a huge pile of action figures on the floor. While I'm still not thrilled about the damage that's being done to our furniture—and on the days that he decides I'm a bad guy, to my body—as long as he doesn't trip over his own feet and fall down, we will all enjoy seeing a miniature Tony Stark running around the house. Anyway, here's some music.

This one is by actor Peter Gordon, who wrote 8,500 poems for his late wife Alison - placing one under her pillow every day for 25 years. More than 300 poems now form the basis of the website A Love in Verse , which has been collated by the couple's daughters.  What's Afoot? Well, the weather's fine, the grey clouds glowing, The chilly wind has got a cheery tale The mini-raindrops don't care where they’re going (As long as they can hit the Mafeking trail). Meanwhile the washing on the line is flapping And number thirteen's palm is waving wild The cats may snooze but you won’t catch them napping And grown up daughters giggle like a child. What can it be that sets all Brentford beaming With Christmas still so many days away? The crisp gold leaves aren't dead – instead they're dreaming Of some delight – that's happening today!  Welcome back home my love with eyes of blue –  A gull's explained – our world...

This is POIMO, an electric scooter that inflates in just over a minute and fits in a regular backpack. It looks like the result of a love triangle between a scooter, a motorized wheelchair, and a pool toy and nobody's sure who got who pregnant. POIMO, an acronym that stands for "portable and inflatable mobility," is made primarily out of thermoplastic polyurethane and comes with two sets of wheels, an electric motor, a battery, and handlebars with a built-in wireless controller. Unfortunately for anybody interested in buying one, there's no word on when it will become a commercially available product, or how much it might cost. Watch the squishy toy/scooter in action: Thanks to Gilbert, who informed me he can't wait for the inevitable POIMO trick fails compilation video.

I'll be honest. I'm suspicious of people who have this obsession to report everything they are doing, 24/7 to social media. It disturbs me when someone thinks that his "friends" actually care if he had a roasted duck for dinner or if dyeing her hair purple helps fill the social interaction void in her life. Worse: it completely freaks me out when somebody retweets every goddamn breaking news as if other people don't have access to the Internet. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a lot of people are addicted to social media. But for every person glued to a screen, there are others for whom the technology no longer holds such an allure – and there are more of them than you might think. There's no doubt sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are keeping us sane in isolation. But it can also be a land mine of potential blunders that at best cause discomfort — and, at worst, cost you your job. Five years from now, we might look back at the eme...

I mostly work from home, so in many ways the quarantine has affected me less than others. However, just like most homeworkers, I am still dreaming of traveling. Australia has been on my bucket list for a long time. I want to explore the outback, watch a show at the Sydney Opera House, relax at Byron Bay, and visit this massive wave pool.

When my daughter was very young, I would read Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop to her. After all these years I can still recall parts of that book. "My brothers read a little bit. Little words like if and it. My father can read big words, too. Like Constantinople and Timbuktu." Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991, would have turned 116 this year. His books have captivated millions, and some of his works have been made into movies, such as The Cat in the Hat , The Lorax , and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. In the age of coronavirus, content that brings us joy is very welcome—and Jim Malloy is doing exactly that. The Boston-based creative has managed to create something kids and adults alike will love—a series of reimagined Dr. Seuss books for the pandemic. Jim altered the titles and cover illustrations and changed the author to "Dr. Fauci"—America's top infectious disease expert. He changed the covers as little as possible, and he kept everything in Seuss's signature...

The humble floppy disk was in its day a marvel of technology. When I was in high school, diskette swapping was huge. We would exchange basic tools, like programs to create ASCII art— you know, you arrange characters and numbers to create, say, a butterfly, that kind of stuff. The floppy disk now only lives on as a save icon in most software applications and, if you're a fan of obsolete tech, you'd be able to appreciate these coasters by PXLprincess . Unlike the real ones, these colorful pixel art pieces are made from fused perler beads and are not vulnerable to magnets and heat. Interested? You can get one over on Etsy for about $4 a piece.