- As I hold her tight and jump on the trampoline, 4-year-old Nem squeals and giggles. Pure delight. #
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-09-18
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//Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-09-11
//- Nem: once upon a time, there was a princess named Lemon Marangue. And she lived in a castle. And she liked to kill people. #
- @HollyWillNot re GMT time in invitations: all my dad's dinner invites. In case I should confuse time zones whilst arriving by private jet. #
- Tantalizing debate with Tia over what makes audio cable connectors male-to-male vs. female-to-female. Found the one I searched 1/2 hour for. #
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-08-07
//- A typical prayer by Nem: Thank you for the earth, and thank you for bunnies, ~the zoo, ~pigs, ~the phone. #
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-07-03
//- Mago, reading "Yahoo answers" on Pokemon questions: "..Yahoo doesn't make any sense." This parody agrees: http://bit.ly/mpcyYp #
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-06-12
//- I'm listening to yon music, and Mago asks me: "What's the rainbow connection?" – and I almost choke up explaining my answer. #
- Currently Browsing: http://bit.ly/iEskFw #
- So the War of the Spiders begins. One I deported with a warning to him and his kind.. stepped on one in my socks accidentally now. #
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-06-05
//Final NASA shuttle flight ~4 AM MST 2011-06-03
//Last Friday we woke the kids up early and drove to a view down the street to watch the final space shuttle flight, which we learned would be visible over the west-northwest horizon. It was, and I videotaped it. This video features this and the kids, as well as repeated misuse of the term “rocket” where “shuttle” was meant. The video player isn’t displaying high-definition popups at full resolution (a longstanding problem I’ve found no solution for, and no acceptable alternative player either), so downloading and playing it from the link will have to do. Sorry, no medium-resolution version of this.
Children May be Present
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I am reminded of a horror story I heard where a child pushed a wrong button and deleted an entire blog, of so many dearly beloved and sorely missed posts.
I suppose the timeout to a password-locked screen-saver isn’t soon enough here..
For a Windows login where a child can do absolutely anything on a computer, but it’s all virtualized outside the “real” file system, and perfectly reverted at reboot, this “Clean Slate” tool looks great. Too bad they don’t have an affiliate link sales program or that would be an affiliate link 🙂 and I’m amused by their picture of a computer’s worst enemy.
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-05-29
//- Nem: "It's called a safety pin. Because when it's closed, it's safe, but when it's open, it's.. death." #
Trampoline Static (voice recording with Mago)
//I think I recorded this last summer.
Jumping on the trampoline, we discovered that if you have a static charge and slowly approach another’s nose with your finger (provided you’re in a dry climate like Utah?), that you’ll hear invisible static bursts jumping rapidly from you to the other person while your finger is still relatively far away – the bursts rapidly increasing until you get close enough to discharge all the static electricity.
The crummy little 16 Mhz recorder I was using doesn’t capture the whole range of the audio, but if you listen closely in this you can hear these increasing static micro-bursts at the lower sound wavelengths it could capture.
[audio:http://home.ussins.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/002_B_001_RAH_SP.wav-Mago-trampoline-static.mp3]Download MP3 (1.4MB, 1.5 min.) – 002_B_001_RAH_SP.wav-Mago-trampoline-static
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-04-24
//Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-03-27
//- Nem: why are you wearing a white shirt? Me: I'm going to the temple. Nem: Oh. But be careful not to marry anyone!.. #
Twitter Weekly Digest for 2011-01-02
//- Mago sings: "Rudolph the lightsaber-nosed reindeer!" (laughs) That's odd. ..Then he could cut down a tree with his nose! #