Via boing-boing:
Oddly, the hamster appears to enjoy this.
What debate was like
When I was in high school and a bit when I was in college, I was on the debate team. Without a doubt, it taught me more about reading and research than any class I took in high school, maybe even in college. But it’s kind of a hard event to explain/describe to people who haven’t been a part of it. I don’t think my parents ever “got it,” and I think the same is true for everyone I have ever known who wasn’t involved in it.
Well, thanks to a link I received from a friend through another friend (all former debaters, btw), I found out about a documentary that I’m going to have to watch, Resolved. Here’s a YouTube preview:
THis looks like the kind of thing that might make it to the Michigan Theater, and if it does, I’m there.
The second of a couple of animal videos: Hippo swimming in Toledo
I took this video of a hippo swimming in the “Hippoquarium” at the Toledo Zoo:
Two “fun facts” about both this and my previous animal video of the turtle on the golf course: first, I shot both with my Canon PowerShot SD 850 IS. I’ve been very pleased with this camera– I’d recommend it to anyone. Second, I tried to upload these videos to YouTube and I ran into errors with both of them. They’re just .mov files that opened right up in QuickTime and that uploaded in a matter of minutes to Flickr. I don’t know what the deal is.
The first of a couple animal videos: turtle at Eagle Crest Golf Course
For father’s day today, Jim K. and I played golf at EMU’s Eagle Crest Golf Course, which is described in this web site as being part of the “Eagle Crest Resort.” Well, if a corporate hotel and a golf course count as a “resort,” then I guess this is what this is.
Anyway, in the midst of my rather terrible play, we encountered a turtle on the fairway of number 15:
Note that this first video (one or two more animal videos are coming) were posted on Flickr, which I haven’t experimented yet with video. The preference for the service is clearly for short videos.
Yummy….
Here’s a 1968 ad for a food product that must be the inspiration for other various “foods in the form of a bar” on the market nowadays:
Um, this was weird…
This was passed along by Michael Day on Tech-Rhet:
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Distilling those “Creative Juices”
Via Johndan’s blog:
I want one of these…
A little more research is necessary, but this looks pretty freakin’ sweet:
First Netflix Streaming Box Review, $100 and Unlimited Downloads!
Thanks to my friend Chris for sending this along to me.
Go see “Young at Heart”
Been too busy around here lately, what with planning classes for spring, Estabrook Science Olympiad (that’s tomorrow), kiddie soccer practice, general cleaning/preparing for the in-laws to visit, and the various fireworks on that other blog I maintain. But I do have some other things I want to try to post about in the next day or two here.
In the meantime, here’s a YouTube video of the “show-stopper” number from the documentary Young At Heart, a very moving rendition of the Coldplay song “Fix You:”
As I understand it, this movie was actually made a couple years ago for British TV and is just now being released in the US. We saw it tonight at the Michigan theater, thanks to our friend/all-around good person Rachel and this fine organization, www.BlueprintForAging.org. Go check this movie out if you can– you’ll be glad you did.
Sophie could do this– yeah, right…
Annette watched this video on Facebook this morning and said “you know, this is the kind of thing that Sophie could do if we trained her:
Yeah, right. Maybe if we both quit our jobs so we could both do it full-time. As it is, I think Sophie’s main trick will remain barking at people and licking the window in the living room.