Author Archives: jrothmanshore

Answered: What’s inside a Crest “Neat Squeeze” kids toothpaste tube

Posted on March 9, 2014 by jrothmanshore

Have you seen the “Neat Squeeze” kids toothpaste tubes from Crest? Rather than being a flexible tube that crumples as you use it, they are a more rigid tube that always stands nicely on the sink counter. They claim that … Continue reading →

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Parenting Milestone: An independent child is a safer child

Posted on February 25, 2014 by jrothmanshore

Milestones come in all shapes and sizes, and we had another one this past Sunday. I sent my six year old daughter Ayelet into the women’s locker room to change by herself. This may not seem like much, but to … Continue reading →

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The vanishing art of handwriting

Posted on February 1, 2014 by jrothmanshore

As a child I spent years practicing how to write words on a sheet of paper. Aside from English and history classes, every homework assignment through college was done with a pencil in my hand. Now, just about the only … Continue reading →

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Today’s Legos have too many specialty pieces, and how I’m fixing it for my own kids

Posted on January 19, 2014 by jrothmanshore

Like many parents, I want my kids to experience some of the memories I cherish most from my own childhood, and this means having a great Lego collection in the house. I spent thousands of hours as a kid building … Continue reading →

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An Office 365 Home Premium subscription is not a bad deal, actually

Posted on January 12, 2014 by jrothmanshore

I remember reacting with skepticism when I heard that Microsoft was rolling out their famous Microsoft Office suite as a monthly subscription for $9.99 a month. Why pay an endless subscription when you could get the same product for a … Continue reading →

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Turning a trip to IKEA into a rainy day activity for kids

Posted on January 1, 2014 by jrothmanshore

The mere mention of the word IKEA can cause PTSD in some people – a long, overwhelming shopping trek through a crowded maze, stressful decisions about what furniture to buy, purchasing a dozen things you never realized you needed in … Continue reading →

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Shortcut: Generate realistically distributed randomized data in Excel

Posted on December 19, 2013 by jrothmanshore

I recently wanted to create some randomized data for use in a simple proof-of-concept experiment.  I was creating a simulated population of users in various locations around the world, and so I needed to take a few hundred rows and … Continue reading →

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Diet Coke or Coke Zero? Turns out I am a marketing statistic

Posted on December 8, 2013 by jrothmanshore

I like to think of myself as a reasonable well educated, critical thinker.  I like data and facts.  I like to look at problems from many different angles. So nothing drives me crazier than when I discover that a marketer … Continue reading →

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With a pacifier, letting nature take its course

Posted on November 24, 2013 by jrothmanshore

When you give a child a pacifier, you know you are making a devil’s bargain. You gain some desperately needed peace and quiet, but you know at some point in the distant future you are setting yourself up for a … Continue reading →

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Script to extract all applications installed on a Mac

Posted on November 12, 2013 by jrothmanshore

Recently, I needed to extract a full list of programs installed on a couple of Macs.  What I wanted to do was get an inventory of all of the software installed on each one and then load it into Excel … Continue reading →

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