Halloween2009

Well Trick or treat counts were Up again.
We had 123 this year.
We were not at home last year, so I don't know how many we would have had, but we did have 8% more this year than we had in 2007.
Year Total
2005 66
2006 97
2007 113
2008
2009 123

HalloweenMath

This Teacher seems fun.
He seems a little like Randy Pausch

TimeLapseRocks

Timescapes Timelapse: Mountain Light from Tom @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

JetPack of the Month

Now this is Cool!

cAPSLOCK sWITCHER

I finally found a website that can change my text.
sOMETIMES i WRITE AN ENTIRE LINE OF CODE BEFORE I REALIZE THE CAPS LOCK IS STUCK
(Sometimes I write an entire line of code before i realize the caps lock is stuck)

Now there is a Text utility that can fix it. Yes it does require cutting and pasting.

I don't even know the name of the site. StreetPC?
Here is the link.

Text Utilities by Adrien Lavoillotte is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France License.

Flip It // ʇı dı1ɟ

ʇxǝʇ pǝddı1ɟ oʇ pǝʇɐɔıpǝp sı ʇsod sıɥʇ


I have no idea how this works?
I think that it uses special characters, not a special font.
Flip it

"Basically, it uses letters that are 180° rotations of other letters to spell a sentence upside-down -- some letters are in the Latin alphabet (e.g. "u" and "n" are rotations, as are "p" and "d") while others are used by linguists to represent certain sounds, and were therefore included in Unicode."

Earth and Moon

The relative distance in a photograph

Here is the website.

Here are some more great Moon Facts

Newton Balls

Nice Flash

100 Guitar Rifts of the Month

100 Famous Rock Guitar Riffs - one take

BetterExplained

BetterExplained

I love the way some writers explain some things.
Here's one on Mental Shortcuts.

Apollo11 Launch

Yeas I know 40 years and a week late.
I can't think of many other indistinguishable sounds like that of the Rocket Flames.

Now This is Flying

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Double click to get a Full Screen View.

United Breaks Guitars

Satire is sometimes the best revenge.

Corn growth

I planted a couple of seed packets in the back yard the first of April.
This grouping is from one seed packet. ( about 100 seeds)
About half of the seeds grew up to be plants large enough to produce ears of corn, and about half of those look like they will produce ears large enough to eat.
I picked one ear on July 4th in order to see how it was doing.
It was small, but otherwise perfect. The taste was great.
I couldn't find a gif creator online that would work for me with more than a few frames.
Next year, I'll plant more.

Train of the Month

The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad

They are having a Steam Up a week from Sunday
The engine will make its first public steam-up on Sunday, July 19, 2009 in the the museum's railyard. Steam operations will be from 10:00AM - 4:00PM and the public is invited to this free event.

LightPainting

Nice examples of painting with light.
LightMark

A Star is Born

I don't understand the physics behind it, but whenever you add Vanilla extract to milk, it expands out in the shape of a star.

Nestle recalls Toll House cookie dough products

Nestle is recalling some premade Cookie dough because of the fear of E-Coli.
Another reson why you should always make your Cookies from Scratch.

I'll continue to use Nestle Semi Sweet Morsels.

Biking In Toronto

This has the perception of speed.

Biking with 5D Mark II from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.

The Bangles

Heard this on the radio today.
Don't know when the original was released, but I like this song.