One Lesson I Learned This Weekend
One lesson I learned this weekend is that I have no future as a drywaller. I finally made time (over three days) to apply the first coat of
joint compound (or "mud") to the
drywall we hung in the
garage. I won't say how long ago we actually hung the drywall, but it's hard to find time to do these jobs. The inclination was certainly there - the garage has been a mess for a year now - but the time to do it was missing.
I also learned the skill to do it was missing as well. Covering the screw holes was pretty easy. I got used to that quickly and there were
a lot of screw holes (as those who helped hang it can attest). But mudding and taping the joints proved more of a challenge. I got it done, but I don't think I did a good job. But hey, it's the garage, not the formal living room, right?
And this is just the first coat. The second coat should make things a little better. And I'm hoping to be able to skip the third coat -- again, this is the garage, right? I just want to paint it and get things on the wall and in place.
Hmmm, now to schedule that second coat of joint compound and painting. Let me see, I think I have openings in late July and mid September....
Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/31/2004 09:16:00 PM :: Permalink
Frags-R-Us
Yesterday I had the privilege of playing multi-player Halo via System Link. I played lots of DOOM Deathmatch over the LAN years ago, but this was the first time with Halo. We linked up two Xboxes and had 5 players. Instead of playing on small TVs, we played on large 6-8 foot projector screens. Now, that's Halo done right.
Sadly, my skill level left much to be desired. In the last game, I think I had 16 points. My teammates had 1 point and -1 point, so it could have been worse. The lack of skill did not detract in any way from the fun of fragging four of your friends - whether they were on my team or not!
Posted by Chris on 5/29/2004 08:41:00 PM :: Permalink
Spammer in the Slammer!
It's about time.
From Salon.com:
Spammer sentenced to 7 years in prison
I wonder if he gets computer access while incarcerated...
Posted by Chris on 5/28/2004 11:16:00 AM :: Permalink
Useless Error Messages
Doesn't everyone just love useless error messages?
Windows is famous for them. They even provide the kernel exception, hex memory address, and maybe even a traceback. All of that is completely useless to the end user that just clicked their mouse on a nice little button and is now perplexed as to why this message box popped up and his entire system seems to be shutting down.
There's also the
BSOD (
Blue Screen of Death) that is filled with hex. And the old favorite,
GPF (
General Protection Fault). These both mean that something went horribly wrong, you have no idea what, we have very little idea what and couldn't explain it to you anyway and it may or may not have been your fault and it may or may not happen again. Reboot.
But today, while actually trying to do some work (I know it's hard to believe if you've ever visited the
PezOfficeCam, but I do work occasionally), I encountered this error message on a web page. It wasn't even
Microsoft related.
Error:
There was no error.
Please go back and try again.
Well, now I'm confused. Is this a Jedi Mind Trick or something?
Posted by Chris on 5/27/2004 02:52:00 PM :: Permalink
Shrek PEZ Dispensers
Word is that
Shrek PEZ Dispensers are now available in the US.
Labels: pez
Posted by Chris on 5/26/2004 01:53:00 PM :: Permalink
Cut in stock benefits disappoints Microsoft staff
Not that my
EMC stock grants and employee purchase discounts have done a whole lot for me lately, but I don't think it's any surprise that 90 percent of
Microsoft employees weren't happy with
this change as reported by CNet.com.
I'm just wondering about the 10 percent that thought it was a good idea.
Posted by Chris on 5/26/2004 11:39:00 AM :: Permalink
TiVo reports loss, but beats estimates by 9 cents a share
I guess this is
good news for
TiVo as they approach profitability. Though I have seen some concerns lately about how long the relationship with
DirecTV will last and if DirecTV will develop their own box like many other providers are doing.
Judging both by the quality of other boxes (
Dish,
TimeWarner) and the length of time it takes DirecTV to roll out new releases from TiVo (still no HMO for DirecTiVo users), I'd say the consumer would greatly benefit from sticking with TiVo. TiVo also has the brand recognition at a level akin to that of
Xerox and
Kleenex, where recording something on your personal video recorder is now called "tivoing".
Labels: tivo
Posted by Chris on 5/26/2004 10:57:00 AM :: Permalink
Telemarketers on your Cell Phone?
I don't have a personal cell phone. I just recently got a work cell phone that they pay for. I typically keep it with me in case they or my family need to get in touch with me. I admit that it definitely comes in handy sometimes. But if this actually happens, there's no way I'll carry around a cell phone just to talk to telemarketers:
From
http://www.consumerworld.org/
Your Cell Phone Number May be Made Public!
Attention cell phone users: brace yourself for
telemarketing calls and text ads on your mobile phone after its number is made public later this year. Worse, in most cases, you have to pay for those incoming calls and messages. A cell trade group will soon publish a public directory of cell phone numbers, and that means your cell number may no longer be private. (Verizon Wireless says it won't turn over its customer list.) Consumers Union is asking Congress to amend the CAN-SPAM Act to forbid unsolicited text message ads from being sent to cell phones. (This is a huge problem in Europe and Asia.) How do you feel about the possibility of getting telemarketing calls and unsolicited text messages on your cell phone? Add your comments [63].
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0520cellphones-directory-ON.html
Posted by Chris on 5/25/2004 10:15:00 AM :: Permalink
Tips on Home Wiring
Structured wiring is a Good Thing. But here's a tip:
If you ever build a house and have PVC conduit installed in the walls to make it easier to add additional cables from the attic to the crawlspace be sure to inspect the conduit to make sure there is sufficient clearance between the pipe and the surrounding structure to actually allow cables to enter and exit.
If you don't you might find yourself in the dark, cramped crawlspace, crawling over to find the PVC conduit. Then you might move the insulation away with fish tape in hand, ready to run some CAT 5 to network your Xbox. You might be unluck enough to realize that this job is about to get a whole lot longer than you'd hoped it would be. The 2 inch pipe might, just might, be a quarter inch off the sill plate. You could probably snake a couple of wires through there at the risk of kinking them.
At this point, you'd sit there debating what to do. Then you'd have to crawl back out to find some tools - or makeshift ones. Finally, you'd end up back in the crawlspace with part of a hacksaw blade you chopped in two and clamped in a pair of vise grips. Now you have about a foot of space to take short little 2-inch strokes over your head against the insulation to try to cut the pipe shorter while sort of lying down and trying to hold the pipe securely with the other hand.
This will require several periods of sawing and taking breaks and sawing and taking breaks. And wondering if you could have gotten and extension cord and somehow fit a power tool in there. There will be much sweating as well, but what did you expect - it's a hot day. Finally, you'll cut through and then lie down for a short rest. Then you'll push the fish tape up the pipe and into the attic.
Once in the attic with all the necessary tools and cables, you will realize that it is WAY too hot in here and you are too exhausted and your legs too shaky to walk 30 feet across the ceiling joists buried in 16 inches of insulation to get to the fish tape and complete this portion of the job. Thinking about one slip of the foot taking you down through the ceiling would be enough for you to call it a day. And did I mention the sweating? Attics get really hot around here.
So you might want to make your job a little simpler and just make sure you're happy with the clearance while it's still someone else's problem. Or even pay them extra to wire anything and everything to everwhere.
Not that I would know or anything.
Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/24/2004 01:16:00 PM :: Permalink
Tips on Buying a Dining Room Table
When you buy a dining room table and the guys come out to deliver it - or even when the guy comes back to replace and fix things blemishes that you found earlier -- these would be good times to have them insert *both* leaves and any other options you might have purchased along with the table. Just to be sure. Merely inspecting the leaves for scratches is not sufficient.
Otherwise, you might find yourself underneath said table with
various hammers trying to gently coax the table into opening up further to accept a second leaf just an hour or two before your dinner guests are set to arrive.
You may find yourself beating on that table -- all without any visible damage, of course -- until you are just about ready to give up. Then, if you are lucky, it may budge just a little and then break free, allowing you to expand the table and seat everyone.
Better to let the delivery guys have that bit of fun. Lesson learned.
Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/24/2004 12:56:00 PM :: Permalink
Ebay Lesson: Read the auction details *very carefully*
One gullible Ebay bidder paid
$200 for an Xbox *box*.
Is that what they call "learning a lesson the hard way"?
He wasn't the only one bidding on the box and now over 130,000 people have looked at that page. Is this his 15 minutes of fame?
And what kind of a deal did he think he was getting on an Xbox for $200 anyway?
Posted by Chris on 5/24/2004 11:01:00 AM :: Permalink
Email Subscription is Working
OK, the email subscription of blog updates is working. You won't get notified immediately when our page is updated, but you should get an email within four hours.
The email won't actually contain the new content, but it will have a link to our site. It's still a nice feature to keep up with blogs you're interested in -- like ours!
Sign up near the bottom of the right sidebar.
Posted by Chris on 5/21/2004 02:05:00 PM :: Permalink
Email Notification Not Functioning
OK, the email notification doesn't seem to be working right now. So I'd hold off before signing up with BotABlog. I'll try to figure out the problem...
Posted by Chris on 5/21/2004 12:16:00 PM :: Permalink
Site News: Bot A Blog
I'm testing out another free service where you can sign up to get email whenever this blog is updated. We try to update it everyday, so I suppose you could just visit every day, but now you have the option to just get email. This is provided by
Bot A Blog.
The Site Feed link is now compatible with both Atom and RSS 2.0 for those of you that like to get your News and Blog content that way. Let me know if you have problems with this -- I'm new to it myself. The RSS icon is in the sidebar under "Blog Archives". The format translations are provided by
FeedBurner.
Posted by Chris on 5/21/2004 11:58:00 AM :: Permalink
TiVo-proof Advertising? Yikes!
Oh, no! Let's hope this doesn't catch on. I'm sure everyone will be eager to add pop-ups and flashing, rotating banners to their network TV viewing as well. Just imagine your nice 36-inch TV being turned into a 21-inch TV with a large banner advertisement on the bottom third of the screen for the entire show!
Don't advertisers realize that if the commercials are compelling enough, even TiVo owners will watch? I Tivo'ed the SuperBowl just to watch the commercials. I fast-forwarded through most of the game (though this year I was mostly disappointed in the commercials).
New TV Network To Take On TiVo and Other DVRs
"Ripe Entertainment is introducing a free "on-demand" cable network, called RipeTV, which will have advertising embedded into its shows. It has seven different types of advertising that will not be able to be fast-forwarded through when recorded on a PVR. RipeTV's CEO, Ryan Magnussen, calls it "TiVo-proof."
New ads include a 3-D animated advertiser logo or graphic to open and close the show, an animated logo occupying the lower third of the screen, a "video skin" or graphic frame with the advertisers brand framed around the show, video billboards in the lower third, strategically placed spots and long-form commercials. The ads are more like magazine advertisements, in a video magazine setting. "Labels: tivo
Posted by Chris on 5/21/2004 10:51:00 AM :: Permalink
The End of TechTV
Yes, it's yet another post about the end of
TechTV. I just saw
Leo's blog post about the end of
Call for Help and had to link to it here.
The short summary is that he'll still do the 90-second spots on
The Screen Savers and perhaps another network will pick up Call for Help. Worse, it sounds like not too many of the crew will be staying on for
G4techTV. So, even though Screen Savers will be around, we're not sure who will be hosting.
Posted by Chris on 5/20/2004 03:57:00 PM :: Permalink
TechTV and G4 Merger
More info on the
TechTV and G4 merger. Looks like they're keeping
The Screen Savers but no word on whether
Leo will still be with the network or not.
The merger happens on May 28th and it looks like most providers will continue to carry it under the new name,
G4techTV. What a silly name.
Posted by Chris on 5/20/2004 02:54:00 PM :: Permalink
Pitcher Perfect
Randy Johnson throws a
perfect game against the
Atlanta Braves.
At age 40, he's the oldest pitcher to do this and only the 17th perfect game in MLB history.
A perfect game means that he only faced 27 batters in 9 innings, retiring every one of them.
The last time the Braves played an entire game without a hit was 25 years ago.
Posted by Chris on 5/20/2004 02:23:00 PM :: Permalink
Site News: Searching Fixed
The "Site Search" link in the sidebar at the right has been fixed. It's now
Google powered!
Unfortunately, due to the organization of our blog archives, the result will still link to a page with a month's worth of blogging. Then you may need to use your browser's Find command (
on most browsers) to search within that page.
The Google-style results do give you snippets, though. It would be nice if it supported highlighting as well, but I couldn't see that it did.
Posted by Chris on 5/19/2004 04:30:00 PM :: Permalink
Random Quotes
I've added random quotes in the subtitle bar above. Hopefully, they'll make you smile, give you something to ponder, evoke a little laughter, bring a tear to your eye, or entice you to keep clicking the Reload button.
Or just ignore them completely and pretend you never read this.
Posted by Chris on 5/19/2004 01:32:00 PM :: Permalink
Google Zeitgeist
Ever wonder if you're searching for what I'm searching for?
Ever wonder about measuring trends based purely on Google search terms?
Ever wonder how searches in other countries compare to searches in the US?
Ever wonder what percentage of people are using Mac's on the Net?
Ever wonder if Google will run out of reasons for me to visit their domain?
Stop wondering. Check out the Zeitgeist
Posted by Chris on 5/18/2004 01:54:00 PM :: Permalink
Amateur Dentistry
"OK, everyone here's the plan. As soon as Aunt Linda gets this big nylon strap attached to Jacob's tooth, Ivey, Caleb, and I are going to grab the strap and we'll start pulling. Elizabeth, you try to keep Jacob calm while Aunt Susan and Uncle Tim make sure nobody falls out of the truck. Austin is looking out front in case we run over something in this truck."
"OK?"
"Let's do this!"
Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/17/2004 12:22:00 PM :: Permalink
Older Cousins
On Saturday, we went to Wilson to celebrate Mama's 80th birthday. It was really nice to get to see all of the cousins and let all the kids play together. Delaney especially loved playing with Elizabeth, her older cousin, who gave her rides around the driveway on the back of a tricycle -- and noone got hurt!
I didn't take my camera, but I managed to snap this one and a few more with my Palm.
Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/17/2004 12:16:00 PM :: Permalink
Reach Out and Zap Someone
Another one for Chris -
Build your own stun gun with a glove, some wire, and a disposable camera.
MacGyver unavailable for comment.
TechTV | Dark Tip: Reach Out and Zap Someone
Posted by Melissa on 5/16/2004 04:14:00 PM :: Permalink
Tarantino Wants to Tackle James Bond
I thought Chris would be interested in reading this. Looks like Quentin Tarantino has Ian Fleming's book Casino Royale on his short list of movies he'd like to do.
A New James Bond Movie in the Works?
Posted by Melissa on 5/16/2004 04:11:00 PM :: Permalink
Two men arrested in Birgunj
250 skulls? At $1.50 each - well, that's one way to get ahead.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Nepal arrests 'skull-smugglers'
Posted by Melissa on 5/16/2004 04:00:00 PM :: Permalink
Thought your pictures were safe?
Why you should never post your pictures on the Internet...
Photoshop run amok.
Posted by Melissa on 5/16/2004 03:20:00 PM :: Permalink
Money, Money, Money, Moonnneeeeeyyy!
Well, the yard sale is over. I don't recommend it if you value sleep at all, but it did go rather well.
We made $360 and some change and Delaney made $5 selling sodas..
Someone actually broke the door to the armoire we were selling, but I was able to take it apart, fix it, and reattach it in time to sell to someone else.
Posted by Chris on 5/15/2004 03:04:00 PM :: Permalink
Don't Make Me Use This!
WRAL.com - News - Man Holds Up Postal Clerk With Glue Gun
POSTED: 5:22 pm EDT May 13, 2004
GREENVILLE, N.C. -- A Pitt County man is behind bars, charged with using a glue gun to rob a post office.
Investigators said 44-year-old Jeffrey Taylor held up a postal clerk Wednesday to get some grocery money. He got away with just $100.
Taylor is accused of robbery with a dangerous weapon. Because the alleged crime involved the U.S. mail, he also could face federal prosecution.
Posted by Chris on 5/14/2004 11:25:00 AM :: Permalink
Stuffed!
As we said before, we're having a yard sale tomorrow. In preparation, we gathered all the stuffed animals to sort through and determine which ones needed to find a new home.
Can you spot Delaney and Victoria amongst the imposters?
And after snapping this photo, we found yet more stuffed animals.
Come on over. You know you want a stuffed animal!Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/14/2004 10:56:00 AM :: Permalink
Little Storage for the EMC Engineer
I work for EMC, predominately a storage company. They give me an email account on that atrocity they call Microsoft Exchange.
As I mentioned yesterday I also now have a Google Gmail account. This is completely free and they don't know me from Adam.
Google gives me 1024MB of storage space.
EMC - the disk storage company - gives its own employee a measly 65MB of space. 85% less than Gmail provides for no charge.
What gives?
What's worse is that the 65MB goes much faster than you might think with everyone sending around a couple of phrases of text encapsulated in a PowerPoint presentation.
I guess I'm just tired of having to clean out my work email and really embracing Gmail's concept. And don't get me started on the other Exchange "shortcomings", to put it nicely.
I'm off to clean my EMC mailbox again...
Posted by Chris on 5/13/2004 09:00:00 AM :: Permalink
Bidding for Email
...or Gmail in this case. Google's recently announced email service is still in beta where only a limited number of people are allowed to sign up and it is by invitation only. The lucky few (I'm sure it's thousands) get 1000MB of storage. The Google idea is that you don't have to delete or even sort your email. You can just Google search it!
The web interface has a few other nice features like conversation threading and auto-complete and such.
Once you're signed up, some members have received an invitation they can send to a friend that allows them to join. Well, there are a lot of enterprising individuals out there, and the trend now is to put these invitations up on ebay. Sell your invitation to the highest bidder!
A check today shows several listings going for around $20. If you think about it, that's not bad to have an excellent chance for getting yourname@gmail.com instead of yname123_45@gmail.com or some nonsense. However, this
eBay seller made out far better than $20. Would you pay that much for an email address?
Of course, there may be other ways to get an account. I got an invitation because we use Blogger.com for this page and Blogger is now owned by Google. In fact, I may make Gmail my default email interface soon.
Posted by Chris on 5/12/2004 03:12:00 PM :: Permalink
Yard Sale!
We're having a yard sale this weekend. Come on by and buy some stuff we don't want. Stick around long enough and take even more stuff we don't want home for free.
Actually, it's a neighborhood yard sale so hopefully we'll have a good turnout. I guess we should start getting ready for it, huh? Anyone want to come help? Or come play with the kids?
If you're having a yard sale you might be interested in these yard sale tips from "The Yard Sale Queen". Or you might not.
The TiVo will not be for sale.
Nor the Xbox.
So don't ask.Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/12/2004 12:57:00 PM :: Permalink
Xbox Media Center
OK, I know some of you (yes, all three of you that actually read this!) are tired of hearing about my XBOX and the hacking of it. But here's another hack success anyway!
Last night I installed the beta release of XBMC - Xbox Media Center. It's sweet. It's free. It's open source. This basically turns my $150 Xbox (plus cost of mods) into a Home Theater Center. It will play all of my music files with digital output, display all of my picture files (even in HD if I had such a set), and even play movies stored on the network (it already played DVDs and VCDs), plus it will tell you the current weather conditions and forecast.
So my audio/video components have been reduced to a 5.1 receiver/tuner, a DirecTiVo, and a hacked Xbox. And I've got more capabilities than before.
Now it's time to pull some cable to give that Xbox a permanent 100Mb connection.
XBMC featurelist
Posted by Chris on 5/12/2004 12:26:00 PM :: Permalink
"When a problem comes along you must ZIP it..."
and other great quotes from Dr. Evil can be found on this site. Yes, that's Dr. Evil he "didn't spend 6 years in evil medical school to be called Mr. thank you very much".
Dr. Evil Soundboard ebaumsworld.com
Click on the link at the bottom of the page to go to other soundboards from the likes of Letterman and Jack Black.
Posted by Melissa on 5/11/2004 02:20:00 PM :: Permalink
How Blogs Work
We've been blogging for a while (whether or not you knew that's what this page of random stuff is called) and I thought it might be time to offer a little more explanation about blogs. So I turned to How Stuff Works and voila, here's "How Blogs Work".
This is a wonderful site that started as a hobby and has grown to be one of the most popular web destinations and has spawned several books. The explanations are clear, concise, and correct. And perhaps best of all, it was all started by Marshall Brain, who lives in Raleigh and taught Computer Science at NCSU while I was there.
So after you learn about blogs, browse or search the site to see the excellent explanations of other things. Here's their Top Ten.
Posted by Chris on 5/10/2004 12:35:00 PM :: Permalink
Krispy Kreme hit by low-carb diets
This one's just for Heidi:
"Krispy Kreme Doughnuts blamed low carbohydrate diets for a 10 per cent downward revision in its earnings per share guidance for 2005."
Full story here
Posted by Chris on 5/07/2004 11:18:00 AM :: Permalink
"TechTV, You're Fired!"
No, this is not a bad Donald Trump joke. I don't think The Donald had anything to do with this.
Comcast had recently bought out TechTV and everyone knew changes were coming, but does that make it any easier to swallow? NO.
Yesterday, Comcast told all 285 San Francisco TechTV employees, "You're fired!"
They've got a couple of months warning (as required by law). Nobody knows what the future of TechTV shows will be. Some employees will be offered jobs at another location. Will The ScreenSavers survive?
Here's Leo's entry on the action. Lots of comments there as well. (If you see a big blank space for some reason, highlight it to read the text. I was having trouble with this link.)
Is it me or do all cable companies stink? I don't know of anyone that likes Time Warner and now Comcast is one of my least favorite companies.
Posted by Chris on 5/07/2004 11:04:00 AM :: Permalink
Xbox Conversion
The Xbox Conversion is done! This hack was a bit more involved than my previous TiVo hack to add more disk space, but it was well worth it.
My Xbox now has a flashable BIOS (Xecuter2 4893.06) that is externally switchable, a new dashboard (EvoX), and a 160GB hard drive. Took a bit of research, but Google makes finding things quick and easy. Then you just have to sort through all the various stories, tutorials, and experiences to determine the right things to do, how to do it, and where to actually get the software you need that everyone is talking about but can't tell you where to get it from.
I'm just starting to load and setup software on it and I still need to run a permanent wired Ethernet connection to its location.
Posted by Chris on 5/06/2004 11:59:00 AM :: Permalink
P.F. Chang's China Bistro
Last night we went to P.F. Chang's China Bistro for the first time. Great service. Great atmosphere. And the Crispy Honey Shrimp were excellent! Also don't miss the Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps appetizer.
Highly recommended.
Posted by Chris on 5/06/2004 11:54:00 AM :: Permalink
So Long, Farewell, Goodbye Friends
No, no, we're not leaving. But Friends is. Tonight is the series finale. 8:59pm Eastern NBC.
"OK, so that's kind of interesting but why are you blogging it - I mean, everyone's heard about this, right?"
Ahhh, but are you aware of the TV Land tribute to Friends? They're planning to show either dead air and/or TV Land staffers watching the Friends finale. So, if you've got some spare time (or disk space) queue up your TiVo to record TVLand at 8:59pm and watch other people watch Friends. Should be fun.
Posted by Chris on 5/06/2004 11:50:00 AM :: Permalink
Cicadas are coming....
Netscape Search
Is it a plague of locusts? No, not quite. But millions of bugs will be appearing in a backyard near you.
Yes, the cicadas are coming. The 17 year wait is over and they will descend upon us soon.
Have fun scanning the articles collected on the page linked above. You too can enjoy cicada mania, just don't let your dog eat too many - she might throw up.
***I think I might throw up just thinking about my dog eating those big juicy bugs....***
Posted by Melissa on 5/05/2004 10:49:00 PM :: Permalink
I'm a Below Average Satellite Subscriber
Apparently, I'm cheap when it comes to satellite TV.
As much as I love DirecTV and especially the integrated TiVo, my monthly bill is around $50. I mean I was an early adopter and paid (gulp) about $800 dollars for my first Sony Advanced DirecTV setup. That was years ago and they're now giving away stuff better than that for free. I certainly don't think of myself as cheap.
But according to this article where DirecTV reported quarterly results, "Average monthly revenue was $63.60 per subscriber, compared with $59.10 a year ago."
So either everyone else pays a lot more than I do, or they've found a way to make more money off me than I'm paying them.
Either way, I'll never go back to Time Warner Cable!
Posted by Chris on 5/04/2004 02:15:00 PM :: Permalink
Dale Chihuly - Artist
I have been eager to see an exhibition of Chihuly's for ages now. I remember vividly the first time I saw his art. It was a special on a television show and it just blew me away (no pun intended there). Art glass has always caught my eye and been something that I love, but Dale Chihuly takes it to this other realm of reality. I have never seen anything like the scope of his work before.
Now I am making plans to attend the art in the garden exhibit currently installed at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. A very lucky woman I know is a member there and she and her son have already attended this exhibit. Her son is about Delaney's age and he is fascinated by it, so I hope that she will love it as well. If you can't make it, at least check out these sites and be in awe.
Dale Chihuly - Artist
Chihuly in the Garden
Posted by Melissa on 5/02/2004 09:17:00 PM :: Permalink
Maze Creator
This my favorite thing to do on the computer. I like so much being able to make a maze and print it out. Then I like to color the path. You try it too!
Maze Creator Software FLASH INTRO - Creative computer software to design puzzles to print or export, get free pre-made mazes
Delaney
Posted by Melissa on 5/02/2004 04:53:00 PM :: Permalink
A poem by Delaney
we need ketchup and love
for putting our hearts together
lifesavers in your heart
so we can still be going on
hyenas might try to eat them
out of your heart
one morning when the hyenas left
they woke up
and they saw me putting my lifesavers in
so we could make our hearts
go on and off
that's the end
Labels: family
Posted by Melissa on 5/02/2004 04:46:00 PM :: Permalink
Once Kissed...Twice Shy (and other Caleb BD pics)
That picture was one of those rare times when the camera is in the right place at the right time and the shutter releases at the right moment. I love that Victoria appears to be applauding the whole event, Delaney is giving extra effort by leaning slightly in, and Caleb is trying desperately to avoid everything by closing his eyes and backing away.
As promised, here are pictures from Caleb's Birthday Party last Saturday. Better late than never.Labels: family
Posted by Chris on 5/01/2004 10:03:00 AM :: Permalink
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