Toy Time

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Debbie brought down a whole bunch of toys from the attic. Daniel and Joel have played with these before, but Micah hasn’t. Of course, after a prolonged absence these toys were greeted with as much excitement and enthusiasm as if they had been brand new. The original intent in bringing out the old toys was [...]

Cacophony

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Flickr does video now! It’s an interesting flavour of video, limited to 90 seconds, intended for brief little clips (what flickr calls “long photos”) and it certainly suits my no-time-for-this approach to video. I know YouTube has been doing video for years, but I really dislike their cluttered, convoluted pages. I muchly much prefer flickr’s [...]

Nursery Rhyme

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Rub a dub dub Three boys in the tub And who do you think they be? There’s Daniel and Joeley And Micah the baby Scrub them up, kids all three Rub a dub dub Who jumped in the tub? And said “Please fill it up Mum” ‘Twas Daniel that said it And laughed when declared [...]

Food Court Musical

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

The geniuses at Improv Everywhere really surpassed themselves with their latest performance. You can read all about it on their web page here, and watch the video below (or directly at YouTube). For our latest mission, 16 agents staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of a Los Angeles shopping mall. We used wireless [...]

Snow Day

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

When I dug out the driveway last night, my intent was to make sure we could leave this morning to go to church. Before setting out, however, we got a phone call to tell us the morning’s service was canceled. Everybody was still digging themselves out from yesterday’s snowfall. We live on a main street [...]