With no dis­cos ’til the 12 we have time to sit and think about ran­dom things, and by golly-gosh we just love shar­ing these ran­dom tid­bits with you via the world wide web.  Thing one — we at BLD have learned to embrace per­sonal dis­ap­point­ment as the path to awak­en­ing. 2 — Bab­ble has a new blog just for you daddy-; 3 —  while we reported on this last year, the smok­ing Indone­sian 4 year old video some­how never gets old.  And finally 4 — a ran­dom hol­i­day gift idea- super cool, can’t go wrong.