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H.o.p. Discovers Scratch
I never anticipated trying to help my son make a computer game. Teaching him Photoshop, helping with animation programs etc., yes. But a computer game??? He’s working in MIT’s Scratch and I haven’t a clue. More and more poses (called costumes) he makes. And sprites. And backgrounds. Eventually he’s going to be serious when he…
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Active Memorial Day Weekend
A really good incentive to immediately wash your dishes after dinner and take out the trash is because you never know when the police are going to be trekking through your apartment to get to the back courtyard. At least the place was tidy otherwise.
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A Haruki Murakami story in the making
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We, too, have a rug that kinda tied the room together
We too have a rug that kinda tied the room together…and it is suddenly deteriorating over the past couple of months. And I didn’t think it was moths. But what was causing it? For anyone who’s interested in learning a little bit about hand-knotted Orientals that aren’t what they seem to be, the in-laws gave…
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Use the camera on the iPhone, right?
H.o.p. picked out for me the best cheese a couple of weeks ago. Was expensive but so good I finished it off in two days. Had never tried this kind before. When done, I threw out the wrapper without thinking to write down the name and now Marty and I are kicking ourselves because we…
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Wake Up Call
They have been working on the streets, digging them up. The Don’t Park signs were up all weekend but people still parked and the street is still full of cars this AM. Instead of having the cars towed, the street workers are using this HUGE bulldozer-mounted jackhammer, hammering it on the steel plates that were…
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Road Work
Road Work View On White They’re replacing the water main in our street which means that today it’s all one big long hill of Georgia red clay out there.
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Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix at Youtube
The link doesn’t want to say what this is but it’s “Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix” with an HP ScanJet 3C supplying the vocals. No effects or sampling. Awesome. Seriously, I’m dumbfound. The end is perfection.
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Filed under Silly Things. The perfect music for a book store stride? White Stripes’ Cannon. Pop in the ear buds and walk. Then the song ends but it’s all right because you’re now in the back of store looking for the book with at least a modicum of text that your artistic kid might possibly…
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My 11 year old’s version of a science experiment
There is glass full of green goo on H.o.p.’s desk. He calls it “an experiment”. A bendie straw is stuck in it. And I think to myself that the next time he brings me a glass of chocolate milk as a nice surprise, I might want to think twice before drinking it. (P.S. I allowed…
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Taste the Difference
I could swear that coffee tastes far better in my Marvin the Martian mug than the plain blue mug.
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More of the same
Hold-the-phone music hasn’t changed in 25 years.