Found A Lost Treasure Trove Of GWAR Videos on MTV Music

Oct 30, 08 Found A Lost Treasure Trove Of GWAR Videos on MTV Music

Posted by Michael in Other Things

Halloween always reminds me of GWAR.  I used to have all of their albums, and I went to their Halloween concert in Chicago every year.  I took Chrissy to a GWAR concert once, when we first met, and she enjoyed it.  I was pretty young, still in high school, when I first saw them on MTV in 1989.  I was shocked to find that MTV...

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How Long Could You Survive Chained To A Bunk Bed With A Velociraptor?

Oct 28, 08 How Long Could You Survive Chained To A Bunk Bed With A Velociraptor?

Posted by Michael in Other Things

I’m not sure how scientifically accurate this is, but BunkBeds.net estimates that I would survive for a mere one minute and nineteen seconds if chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor.  That’s based on my fighting skills, jumping ability, and bulldog tenacity (or lack thereof). survived for Michael 1 minute, 19...

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Carving Pumpkins For Halloween

Oct 27, 08 Carving Pumpkins For Halloween

Posted by Michael in Special Events

Aiden was too young to carve pumpkins last year, but we thought it would be fun for him this time around.  We bought our pumpkins about a month ago, and they’ve been sitting on our front porch for a while.  This weekend was the last chance to carve them before Halloween, so we got to work on them.  We haven’t carved...

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Aiden Was Accosted By Llamas At Scheeringa Farms

Oct 25, 08 Aiden Was Accosted By Llamas At Scheeringa Farms

Posted by Michael in Being A Dad, Special Events

Scheeringa Farms is a fresh produce vendor not far from where we live.  It’s a nice, family-owned place close to Cline Avenue and 45th in Highland, IN.  They have a petting zoo every year around Halloween, but we’ve never taken Aiden there before.  Chrissy’s Mom took Aiden last year, but Chrissy and I have never...

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Wordle Is A Neat Word Cloud Image Tool

Oct 21, 08 Wordle Is A Neat Word Cloud Image Tool

Posted by Michael in Other Things

I was playing with an interesting new web toy today.  It’s called “Wordle“, and it makes images of words based on text (or web sites) that you give to it.  Wordle takes all of the words fed to it and jumbles them up into a nice cloud.  This one was created using the words from the “Family”...

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Gavin’s Baptism

Oct 20, 08 Gavin’s Baptism

Posted by Michael in Being A Dad, Special Events

Gavin was baptised on Sunday, October 19th, 2008.  We now have two Catholic boys in the family!  Gavin was very good: he slept through most of his first mass, but woke up just before receiving his baptism.  It was a very nice ceremony.  Aiden was very good throughout the mass as well.  Our family members took lots of photos for...

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Aiden and Gavin’s Name Spelled In Pictures

Oct 13, 08 Aiden and Gavin’s Name Spelled In Pictures

Posted by Michael in Other Things

Erik Kastner put together a neat little tool called “Spell With Flickr” that accepts a word through any web browser and returns a set of pictures that spells that word.  The results are pretty awesome, and you have the option to re-select a letter image by clicking on the letter itself. Aiden: The script uses the...

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Epic Fail For Daddy As Unsupervised Son Paints With Vaseline

Oct 12, 08 Epic Fail For Daddy As Unsupervised Son Paints With Vaseline

Posted by Michael in Being A Dad

Chrissy is the best Mom ever, so of course she deserved to take a day off for a twelve-hour scrapbooking event.  I’ve been at home alone with Aiden before, but so far I haven’t had both kids at the same time by myself.  Chrissy’s mom took pity on me and borrowed Aiden for the morning.  That left me with Gavin,...

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