Skip to content

{ Monthly Archives } January 2009

January Update

We celebrated Giovanni’s 10th birthday this past weekend. Four of his friends closed in on our home on Saturday night for a sleepover. It’s amazing what these kids are talking about. They spent hours with nerf guns and plastic swords, cutting each other’s heads off and blowing each other away. They were non-stop action-heroes out [...]

Japanese Human Slip ‘n Slide

These folks know quality television…

This is the funniest thing I have every see in my life. Or stupidest. Will likely be replaced by something else tomorrow. Whatever, just watch already.

Slow-motion + aint balloons = awesomeness

Some cool slow-mo paint-balloon effects:

Blue Thousand and One from Blue Man Group HD on Vimeo.

Cool time-lapses sunrise video

Lots of different time-lapse videos packed into this bad boy.

túrána hott kurdís by hasta la otra méxico! from Till Credner on Vimeo.

ASYV Flyby Video
Here is a flyby video of the ASYV, in Rwanda. Created with Google Earth and Jing from TechSmith. I exported the mp4 to iMovie and published to YouTube from there.

Pinewood Derby: Results

As I mentioned yesterday, the cub scout Pinewood Derby ran last night. The good news is that my kids placed first in every heat they ran. The bad news is that they never faced up against the fastest cars because they didn’t place overall.
They were very excited about the event and it was funny to [...]

Pinewood Derby 2009

The annual cub scout Pinewood Derby race is tonight. I spent most of the weekend working with the kids, preparing their cars for the race. This year we did everything ourselves. In years past, I leveraged the tools and expertise of my friends. This year, I bought a coping saw, a pair of Irwin Quick-grips [...]

Rwanda

In about a month, I have the opportunity to go to Rwanda to help set up the computer networks  (and whatever) for the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village. My company, Liquidnet, sponsors the village as part of their Global Social Engagement program, a fancy term for our philanthropy program. Liquidnet gives 1% of revenue to charitable [...]

Primordial Ooze is Digg proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache