My Father-in-Law came up with the wonderful idea of filming this optical illusion at the Franklin Institute today. Since the camera doesn’t do depth perception, the thing looks even better than it did in person (and it was already pretty impressive). I put it below for your enjoyment, and as a reminder at how easily…
Month: November 2008
Fail Blog, it is most fun.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, one of my most recent additions to my feed reeder is Fail Blog. I come from a generation who’s last remain bastion of sanity is the ability to embrace irony, Fail Blog is a wonderful example of it. As when I introduced it earlier, if you are easily…
ACTPrinter Review
This morning I discovered that an app in the iTunes app store was going to be on special starting on Black Friday. The special had the enticing price of “free” and, given that I was just waiting to back some spending money back before picking ACTPrinter up, I immediately downloaded it and set it up….
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!
We had a wonderful, and relaxing, day yesterday – capped off by sharing a Thanksgiving feast with 16 people seated around our table (well, and three at the kiddie table). It actually felt like a day of rest, and for an introvert like me that’s a statement when you’re surrounded by people all day. It…
Sometimes you just want to crawl into a corner and weep..
No, I’m not going to have a long pity party. I’m just wondering if human beings are actually capable of communicating without feeling the need to bludgeon one another. This past week I got an IM from my friend Jim. It was one word, “NOVA.” Apparently, PBS was running a Nova special on “Buried Secrets…
Kingdom Collision – Reflections
This past Sunday marked the end of the “Kingdom Collision” sermon series at Central. For folks who weren’t reading my blog back when I was prepping Kingdom Collision, this series took a look at the Gospel narrative and then looked at the political impact Jesus’ teachings would have had in the first century. This series…
