Lead-painted toys? Aye-Yeash!

Martin Kelley — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:38:31 +0000

The Times has a fascinating article on the rise of recalls on Chinese-made toys over the last few years. Two of our kid’s “Thomas and Friends” wooden trains are part of the latest recall because of lead paint. We’ve long preferred the metal Thomas trains since 21-month old Francis chews on the wooden ones and gnaws their paint off.

We learned about the lead painted Thomas’s on the same day that our family doctor told us that it was officially time to become concerned with Francis’s slow speech development. When Theo was just a little older than Francis is now we put together a dictionary of his vocabulary. Francis makes cute sounds and seems bright and curious but he’s not even gotten out a consistent mama or papa and we haven’t been able to figure out a meaning for his most common word (Aye–YEASH). He’s got an appointment six months from now with specialists at Wilmington’s Nemours (that’s how backed up they are!).

We’re not blaming the trains—the lead ones we had were relatively unpopular and have few signs of wear. And we’re not panicking. My mother brushes off all concern with the assured declaration that kids learn to talk at lots of different ages. She could certainly be right of course: our doctor sent us to Nemours for Theo with the worry that he had a big head. If Francis does turn out to be a little “slow,” well then we’ll just take that as another lesson plan God has for us.

Some gratuitious family pics

Martin Kelley — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:36:06 +0000

In the What a Difference a Year Makes (or Doesn’t) Department:
Julie took the kids out to South Jersey’s fabled Storybookland last week.The funniest discovery were the pictures that matched those from Theo’s class trip last year.
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We all went together on a family trip this weekend to reacquaint ourselves with one another: our schedules haven’t been syncing well lately. Julie picked a farm B&B out in Lancaster County full of chickens and goats and an easy commute to Strasburg PA, a good place for those who like to look at trains, trains, and trains, then drool over trains, trains, trains, and trains (we haven’t seen trains or trains up close yet). Pictures from around the B&B are here; strangely we forgot the cameras on our steam-powered outings so you’ll have to look at old pics. Here’s a shot of the kids on top of the playhouse barn’s slide:

1996 Bookmarks

Martin Kelley — Fri, 20 Dec 1996 22:45:58 +0000

Nonviolence Web’s Bookmarks

Nonviolence Web Discussion Board Links Full Listings War Resisters League National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund Fellowship of Reconciliation Fellowship Magazine SIPAZ Pax Christi USA Private Posting Systems NISBCO Natl Campaign for Peace Tax Fund SIPAZ Philly Young Adult Friends

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Martin’s Homepage Martin’s homepage Martink Web Counts How popular is my page? See for yourself. Vortex Videos Martin Kelley’s Bookmarks

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Based on the idea of the CRAYON newservice,this is a frame-based compendium of mainstream news services I use.

News and Resources Children of the Light a.ka. the Religious Society of Friends, a.ka. the Quakers. “Children of the Light” was an early name for the Quakes that I’m personally trying to revive. Friends’ WWW Quakers on the net!, oh my what would George Fox have said? Well, you don’t need to guess, since he’s online here (I kid you not). Philly Young Adult Friends See what we cool cat twentysomething Quakers are getting ourselves into. PYM draft page This is the longest-running draft page I’ve ever put together. Quaker committees can be an experience in themselves, and this Philly Yearly Meeting’s web committee barely has a pulse. Philly Stuff Indexes Joe’s Links City.Net Philadelphia LibertyNet Lots of good Philly groups broadcast out of LibertyNet. Inky/Daily News Ritz Filmbill The two Ritz’s are the only interesting theaters left in this town which experts agree has one of the lowest theater/capita ratings in the country. Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema City Paper The local alternative weekly’s online. Fancy graphics (too fancy perhaps) mark this foray into cyberpublishing. SEPTA Public-transit authority SEPTA is the leader in ambiguous P.R. Take their shit-tank name for starters, then add their wacky slogans like “SEPTA: We’re Getting There” or “We’re Trying to Do Our Best.” Philly Weather From Intellicast, a great weather site complete with forecast, synopsis and the latest radar images. Philadelphia Radar Miscellaneous Crayon News Service NY Times Quick Read NY Times Late News Update MSNBC National Public Radio Timecast: The RealAudio Guide Library of Congress The Library’s on line. Switchboard (phone directory) The WWW Purity Test FedEx Tracking UPS Home Page Amtrak Schedules This August I took the Broadway Limited from Chicago. Now I read they’re going to cut the line from the schedule. Is this progress? This site is independent of Amtrak but has all the schedules. Amtrak�s Station The official Amtrak homepage has lots of interesting information about the trains, but no schedules!

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PERL/CGI Matt’s Script Archive Take 10 Minutes to Learn ™ — PERL Resources for PERL Web Development Information
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Web Toys 32-bit Apps Main Menu Welcome to Vivo.Com GIF Construction Set
CD/Disk Problems TOSHIBA — Disk Products Division Setup Does Not Detect Standard IDE Drive On IBM 9353 Hardware Questions FAQ: Is there a list of CD-ROM drives that require real-mode drivers?
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Internet Movie Database

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Music the ultimate band list Olga Index-MIT Shel’s stuff Michelle Shocked has her stuff online

Schmucks I know Mud’s Email Mud’s Bookmarks Ann Farnsworth-Alvear’s Constance Cooper Dan Birchall Jacob Mattison Jill Mulvey’s lame page Jorj’s home-page Kris Tapp Michael Burke Peter Selinger Rafael Richards Steve Pyne My housemate, awwww.…. Thomas Taylor Tom Diling World Game Institute Penn Math homepages

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Circa 1996, recovered via Archive.org

trains

Lead-painted toys? Aye-Yeash!

Some gratuitious family pics

1996 Bookmarks

Nonviolence Web’s Bookmarks

Nonviolence Web

Private Posting Systems

NVWeb Adminstration

Miscellaneous

Statistics

Martin’s Homepage

News and Resources

Children of the Light

Philly Stuff

Indexes

Miscellaneous

Regular Checks

Websites

Computers

PERL/CGI

Web Design

Reference Material

Web Toys

CD/Disk Problems

Computer Stuff

UNIX

Alta Vista

Music

Schmucks I know