Monthly Archives: August 2005

Jowlers.com – Wacky

Posted on August 14, 2005 by joel

Check out this site I found on the web today. Basically, it's pictures of people taken while they shake their head fast from side to side with their mouth open. Much funnier to see than to talk about. Check it out!
www.jowlers.com

And here's MY version -

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Just Hanging Out…

Posted on August 13, 2005 by joel

We took these photos today, while Sean and I were hanging out in the bathroom while Mom got ready. He was being exceptionally cute, and we wanted to share with everyone!

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Scenes from Space

Posted on August 12, 2005 by joel

Enjoy the first installment of "Scenes from Space". Every Friday, I will post a space-related image and a little description of it. I frequent a lot of space-related websites, and this is a way that I can share some of the neat things I find with you guys!

This first image is one taken during the Perseid meteor shower last August. The photographer is the astronomer Fred Bruenjes. He recorded a series of 30 second exposures spanning six hours during the meteor shower. This year, the Perseids meteor shower will peak in the early morning hours on Friday, August 12 - but can also be seen during the wee hours of the morning on Saturday. If you're interested in this meteor shower, be sure to catch it this year. Next year there will be a full moon during the peak of the shower, making it too bright to see any meteors.

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Kerplunk Radio – Episode 1

Posted on August 10, 2005 by joel

Hey all! Give a listen to episode 1 of Kerplunk Radio! I'm planning to throw together a 20-30 minute podcast of independent music once every 2-4 weeks. Each show will have a theme - this episode's theme is music for kids. I'm hoping to use this as a way to share some great indie music I'm listening to with my friends and family. Let me know what you guys think! Right-click the "download mp3" button and choose "save-as" to save the show to your computer before listening. Here are the artists on this first show;

Bob Brown - Santa Bring Me a Dinosaur		Bill Crosby - Sleeping in the Car
Brian Waite Band - Bongo Baby		Buck Howdy - Skidaddle
Erin Lee & Marci - Grampa and Me		Katherine Dines - Goosebumps
Rick Scott - Biggest Ears

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Go Fly a Kite!

Posted on August 5, 2005 by joel

I've subscribed to a something called "Make", which is basically a quarterly magazine full of do-it-yourself geek projects. From building robots, to hacking portable electronic devices, to making potato guns. The first issue had an article on something called "Kite Aerial Photography", which involves using a kite to lift a camera rig to take pictures from the air. This is right up my alley! A couple of years ago, I tried to do a similar thing with model rockets. So I bought a book about kite building, and tried to build a couple. The first one failed miserably - never got off the ground. The second flew beautifully. It's not quite stable enough to loft a camera rig, but it gives me some confidence that the next one will be much better. Sean was looking especially cute that day - less like a baby and more like a little boy!

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