Review Review: Poetry For Neanderthals Cal got this game as an early Christmas present. We have played it a half-dozen times and it is pretty fun. One person on a team looks at cards and tries to get their team to guess the words on the card. They can't say the word on
Christmas Another cool still frame from the Light the World videos I didn't notice the nurse as the shepherd with a crook made out of the IV holder until a year late.
Travel How should the Canadian flag be hung vertically? I was watching a Nathan for You episode where he returns to his home country of Canada and noticed some Canadian flags hanging vertically and wondered how they are supposed to be hung. The US flag is supposed to be hung vertically with the blue corner in the upper left.
Christmas Do you store your Christmas lights plugged-in? I love the Light the World videos that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints puts out each Christmas. But we always laugh at the intro of the video from 2016. The person is unpacking their Christmas lights and they are on!
Christmas Making a QR Code with RGB Christmas Light Pixels I wanted a way for viewers to see a website about the lights this year. So I tried making a QR code out of pixels. The website will have a way to vote for the show you want to see on the house with Remote Falcon, information about the lights,
Review Review: The Planets with the Pacific Symphony I went to a performance of The Planets with the Pacific Symphony at Segerstrom on November 19, 2022. The symphony sounded great and very loud. I had never seen a performance of the full piece. They had a video screen behind the orchestra where they projected video with the theme
Christmas Del Mar Highlands Christmas Decorations My friend Bruce has been designing and decorating the Del Mar Highlands for a few years. The boys helped him design the synchronized RGB LED lights on the surfboard tree there. Last year the igloo decoration was destroyed by arson. This year he designed a snow globe to take its
Podcasts Lamentations of the Father One of my favorites from This American Life from many years ago. I realized today that Frances and Calvin had never heard it. So I made them listen to it. They liked it.
Books Interview with Roald Dahl This video from 1982 is great. I love watching him get setup in his writing chair and "nest" in his writing hut. I never really thought about what hand people hold a cigarette in when they smoke. I guess if you are right handed you have to smoke
Travel Idiot Card This is the card the concierge at our hotel in South Korea gave us when we were trying to make our way to a covid testing center last summer. Cal and I called it the idiot card. We just walked around like idiots showing the card to people and they
RSS Good summary of what is wrong with Facebook and why you should use RSS Haven Blog: The Lie That Facebook Sold You
Music San Juan Hills Music Concert We have had kids in the program long enough that we are seeing repeats now. They rotate music they play about every 5-6 years. So now Frances is playing some of the same stuff Eddie played. It is fun to hear it again.
Review Review: Nerds Candy Corn I like Nerds Rope and Nerds and Nerds and Big Chew Nerds. I also like Candy Corn. But Nerds Candy Corn is terrible. 1/5
Fun The most annoying sound in the world According to Dumb & Dumber it is this. The sound of a toy train we had is pretty bad too. I used it for a ringtone for quite some time. But it is really really awful. 0:00/1×
Review Review: Costco full size candy pack ripoff We don't have many trick-or-treaters so we bought a full size candy assortment package from Costco. Some peanut M&Ms were left over so I grabbed a pack. It definitely felt lighter than a full size package should feel so I did some measuring. The scale shows
Review Review: Which Wich Cloud Bread When I was ordering my Wicked Wednesday sandwich from the Which Wich app (which is now $6 instead of $5) I was offered Cloud Bread. I had no idea what it was but decided to try it. When checking out I saw the $6 sandwich was now $7.50. But
