The popular site Will It Blend? puts the iPhone to the blender test. I always loved when Letterman would drop things from the top of a five story building just to see them explode. Now you can see what happens if you drop that $600 iPhone into an industrial blender.
Posted by Chris on 7/20/2007 12:06:00 PM :: Permalink
If you need other ideas for MacGyver-isms, check out Lifehacker's list of ideas that would make MacGyver proud.
Posted by Chris on 7/18/2007 12:43:00 PM :: Permalink
When I was growing up, we used to vacation a lot in the Atlantic Beach/Salter Path/Emerald Isle area on the North Carolina coast. It was only a few hours away. I vaguely remember camping when I was younger and later staying at different beach houses and condos. Some years I'd go two, three, or four times, staying with grandparents, aunts and uncles, church youth groups, or other friends.
We'd always find somewhere to eat seafood and always find somewhere to play miniature golf. There was always a walk on one or more fishing piers to see what people were catching. Sometimes stopping to fish ourselves. We rode waves to shore in the ocean and played card games in the room.
And you always, always, always made at least one stop at Neuse Sport Shop in Kinston. You just had to, and it was at about the halfway point of the trip.
Sure it was typically hot, but there was always a firm breeze and water nearby. Good summer fun. Good memories.
This past week, we took a trip back to Atlantic Beach after not going for a few years. Delaney remembered the last trip, but Tori certainly did not. The drive is a bit longer from Wake Forest, there were no walks on the fishing piers, as most of them are either washed away or closed, but there was a stop at Neuse Sport Shop and it's at least three times the size it used to be. If you can't find a fishing rod in there, it doesn't exist.
Despite Melissa's sunburn induced by residual antibiotics (I bet we remember that next time), we had a great time! Lots of wave jumping in the ocean, building sandcastles, burying each other in the sand, and finding crabs and shells on the beach. A trip to local shops netted a Webkinz among other things (imagine that!), a meal out included making Smores at the table over open flame, and a chance stop on the way home resulted in a geocache find.
I thought about trying to take some pictures of fireworks on the fourth, but then decided against it. I didn't bring a tripod and while we had a good view on the beach of fireworks at the Atlantic Beach Causeway, we really weren't close enough for great photos.
Then someone started setting off some serious fireworks in the parking lot of our complex. This was not an authorized, planned show, but these were also not your run-of-the-mill-lame-NC-legal fireworks.
Someone went to South of the Border and spent some serious cash. So we saw two fireworks shows at once!
I grabbed the camera and took this one handheld (thus the wavy lines) but I still thought it looked neat. Zoomed to 200mm for a three second exposure, that's actually a fairly steady handheld shot, I think.
Posted by Chris on 7/11/2007 03:53:00 PM :: Permalink
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A little extra free time of late?