It appears my son has a bit of anonymous online fame growing due to my blog entry called Prequel Generation Questions A New Hope. It was picked up this weekend by BoingBoing, SlashDot and a few other bloggy places.

As a father, I must admit I was a little hurt reading the feedback over at SlashDot. Two themes were bothersome to me...

1. FAKE! -- Quite a few people seem to think I made the whole thing up, and that this was written by an adult. I suppose this is actually quite a complement to my son. It was intended as a slam against me, though... apparently I have nothing better to do than make up a family and conversations we might have. Sigh.

2. Ep III is Child Abuse -- I mention in the article that my son has seen Episode III twice. This sparked a horrible father thread. There's nothing I can type here that would convince you of the quality of my parenting, but if you're a parent you'll know how a comment like that is about as hurtful an attack as one can make. Take my word for it and read this entry... I know my son. That's what "parental guidance" is all about.

A picture of my oldest son will be on starwars.com tomorrow. There's no stopping that now... (try to find it!) but this has me thinking that maybe my job and passion aren't giving my kids a fighting chance to be anything but Star Wars fans.

My wife called me this morning just to let me know that she noticed our 2-year-old son sneaking one of my 7-year-old's lightsaber toys and heading upstairs. She decided to see what was up, and found him standing in front of the wall where I have all six Struzan posters hanging (the only visable Star Wars memorabilia I'm allowed to display in the house), striking poses to match the Jedi in the posters.

Or maybe my boys are just like their dad.

On a completely different note, check out this report on Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford University. I really like that guy.