Ooooh, Aaah. That comes first. Then later there’s running and screaming.
Syracuse Days is the yearly celebration that for some reason takes place right before the 4th of July. We missed it this year to go to a family reunion, but at the last minute I decided to try and take some pictures of fireworks to see how they’d turn out.
I kept the aperture between 8 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2008
On Saturday we went down to Orem for the annual Roberts family party. The park down there is perfet because there is shade everywhere, and a great swiming pool. We ate a ton of food and swam until we were pink (especially Sid, her cheeks are the color of a stop sign).
A day of […]
Britnie and I took the day off to escort some of the kids in Sidney’s class at the zoo. They had a great time and I survived the heat.
Most of these were taken at the bird show, which is pretty fun. They have trained animals swooping over the crowds, one actually hit
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jun 27th, 2008
This is book twenty-six in 52 books in 52 weeks
Another book set in a post-apocalyptic future, I can’t get enough of them. Jeanne DuPrau sets the scene in a brief prologue. Something major is about to happen on Earth, thought we aren’t told what that is. A city is created deep underground, along with enough […]
In Sidney’s second grade program she played a second grade student who was nice to a new kid. It was a big stretch for her and she did great.
Wyatt getting a
Sid and I have been playing around with a new game, Spore, that lets you create creatures out of nothing. It’s a small part of a later game that will let you put these creatures into a world and help them evolve. It’s by Will Wright, the same guy that made The Sims. So here’s […]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jun 19th, 2008
This is book twenty-five in 52 books in 52 weeks
Cory Doctorow is one of the excellent editors at Boing Boing. He’s written a couple of novels for adults, but this is his first foray into junior fiction.
The story begins in San Francisco as Marcus and his friends skip school to go to an organized […]
Posted in politics on Jun 19th, 2008
“I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11.
The people who were responsible for murdering 3,000 Americans on […]
Posted in asides, interesting links on Jun 19th, 2008
A baby laughing in slow-motion (video)
Florida analyzed 168,000 deaths statewide to see how drugs contributed. Cocaine, meth and heroin caused 989 deaths Legal painkillers like Vicodan caused 2,328. Legal depressents like Valium caused 743. Alcohol caused 466, but contributed to over 4,000. Marijuana caused 0. I’ve never understood why alcohol is legal but marijauna is […]
Posted in Brother, Johnsen Family, photos on Jun 18th, 2008
Some birds built a nest next to their front door, so we were all sent to the back so