I’ve got a bunch of Bach CDs and a few Ogden Nash books sitting around, so these two were especially interesting to me, but this guy has done a bunch more too.
First Bach:
Then Nash:
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Fun with Flickr.com
Beth Marshall said we should upload pictures for our High School Reunion Site to Flicker. It’s a good way to share photos, because they are easy to upload and search, and you can comment on the pictures that everyone puts there. Neat stuff.
Well, I found some pictures of Seward sitting on our hard drive today, and I thought I would put them on Flickr too. While I was doing that I noticed that you could also say where the photos were taken, and after that I wondered if anyone else had uploaded pictures from Seward…
(Click on the picture to go to the live map)
Those of you in Seward should, of course, upload your own pictures.
Christmas in July
Well, June, really. Lloyd got his iPhone! He was 13th in line on Friday, and at 6:24 p.m. it was in his hot little hands. (I’ll let him go into the details of that.) He hung on to it for 24 hours to be sure he didnt have buyer’s remorse, and even put it up on ebay to see if he could make a little profit. (It didn’t sell.) So last night at 10:30, he finally opened it up. Great for him, not so great for Brad and me, who were pretty tired and did not completely share in the iPhone experience. (Really, only one person can hold it at a time. It’s like being 7 and watching the birthday boy drive his cool truck around the carpet. Fun for one.)
It is pretty dang cool, though. Once I got to hold it, I understood the hype. So – Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas for the next three years, Lloyd!
iPhone Eve
˜Twas the night before iPhone,
and all through the houses,
the dorks and the geeks
click-click-clicked with their mouses.
The nerds were lined up
In collapsible chairs,
In hopes the new iPhone
Soon would be theirs.
The iPhones were snuggled
All safe in their box s,
Secure in the knowledge
They would run OS X (s).
Lauren in her jammies,
And Brad sleeping tight,
Lloyd’s on the keyboard –
On Apple’s website.
When what to his wondering
Eyes should appear,
But Steve Jobs on a Segway,
With eight wireless speakers.
“On iTunes! On Google!
On pictures and mapses!
On e-mail! On browsers!
Use touches and tapses!
On photos! On movies!
On phone calls to mom!
Dear legions, your dreams
Have come true -it’s da bomb!”
His eyes twinkled wildly
As he pulled from his pack,
a sleek-looking thing
like a tiny iMac.
He spoke not a word, but
He tossed it to Lloyd,
An iPhone! So shiny!
So geeky! Such joy!
Lloyd jumped around
All over the place!
“God bless you, Steve Jobs,
and your cool interface!”
Prototypin’
Brad is a cereal eater, and since he’s a guy, his custom is to rinse off his cereal bowl and spoon and set them by the sink to use again the next day. Since I’m a girl, I kept putting his bowl in the dishwasher every other summer. Oops! So this year, we’ve got the perfect solution! Lloyd helped with it’s construction – he’s got mad Dremel skills – and made the spoon notch just right!
That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
Well, I would call our sheet experiment a grand success! Today we hit a high of 91 degrees, and the upstairs stayed quite cool. I took some pictures tonight to show the 4 – 5 degree gain (loss?) that a bit of cloth made! By the way, we upgraded to a flat sheet – more corner coverage.
(I think I get my ‘watching the temperature’ interest from my dad. I grew up in western Colorado where it was dry, and we didn’t have central air conditioning. We would open windows at night and close them the next morning in the summers, and in winter he would manually turn the heat down at night and up in the morning. Let’s hear it for programmable thermostats of today – it’s like having Dad around!)
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