Richard Grayson is an incredible piano player who uses his encyclopedic knowledge of muscial styles and his creative mind to mash together different pieces and styles.
He asks for requests from the audience, then attempts to play them live. Some of them are truly brilliant. I want an MP3 of this to listen to, it’s so bang on and so beautiful:
Setup #1: I’m a bit of an electronics geek, so the kids have a box of batteries and LEDs and wires and such that they play with and we talk about basic circuit wiring.
Setup #2: All of the kids are on a Calvin and Hobbes jag right now. They have all of the books out from the library and they quote the strips and explain their favourites all the time.
Today I came up from work for dinner and my son Joshua had an invention to demonstrate for me: The Thinker 3000. It’s based on the Cerebral Enhance-O-Tron from Calvin and Hobbes.
I had no idea that one of my favorite movies as a teen was actually a parody of a 1950′s film.
We must have seen Airplane! a dozen times by the time I graduated high school. After seeing these clips, I don’t think I could watch Zero Hour! all the way through without reciting dialogue from Airplane!
As I’ve posted before, we’ve been looking into getting a dog for quite a while now. We finally picked her up on Wednesday.
Her name is Diva. She’s a labradoodle that was just retired from breeding. She’s going to be 5 in June.
Her mother is a medium standard poodle, and her father is an F1 labradoodle, so she’s 3/4 poodle, 1/4 lab.
She got a bath to get her smelling like a dog instead of like a kennel full of dogs. Wow, does her hair hold water…
Then she spent some time soaking her feet, which are a little raw (we’re guessing from the concrete floors at the breeder).
Here she is!
She’s always that mellow. We’ve never heard her bark. She will let us examine her paws, play with her food while she’s eating, examine inside her ears, just about anything without a fuss at all. She already walks on a slack leash (no dragging us around!). She sleeps through the night in her crate at the foot of our bed. She never jumps up on anyone or anything. We can’t believe how great she is.
Now if we can just get her to “do her business” in the right place in the backyard…
This blog is a dump of great links I find while working on the net all day.
It *used* to be my personal blog, but the posts were getting lost among all of my weird links, so I moved my personal blog to Lego and Sawdust. Go there if you came here looking for woodworking, religion or family discussions.
I have left all the old posts here because the search engines bring lots of people. Any posts that aren't about weird links from the net will be on my other blog. Go there.
Because it's the source of most of my hits recently, here is a link to the "Faith" category of posts, where we discuss our recent decision to leave Christianity and the fallout that is occurring.
