The Haunting

I was laying in bed as I often do when I get home from work. Rosie, Laura and I had finished playing and I was settling in for a quick 20 minute nap. The sun was still out and facing towards the back of the house streaming light into our bedroom. I had a pillow over my eyes to block out the light, but with enough room to breath.
While I was laying there thinking about some work project, I felt Rosie sneak up onto the bed and crawl up next to me. We like to play games and she like to come in and wake me up when the time comes so I didn't do anything. I just laid there. I heard her sniffing at my ear. Loud sniffs. Deep sniffs. I had no idea what she was doing so I pulled the pillow off of my head. Rosie was not there. No one was there. Nothing was there. Imagine my surprise. Quickly I leaned over the edge of the bed to see if anything was there. Nothing.
I was not asleep at the time. I was wide awake, there was no transition to me listening to the sniffing beside my head and pulling the pillow off.
This was yesterday. This is accurate as I can be, it only lasted 10-15 seconds.
What do you think it was?

My first sushi roll

Homemade Toys via TED.org

Laura and I watched this TED talk on the Boxee the other night and it was awesome. Arvind Gupta inspired me to make Rosie some toys of our own. I started out simple with some 2x4 blocks that I cut and she loved them. I know this video is about recycling and that's what I did with the scraps of the 2x4, but I needed some different shapes and wanted to use some better wood for more blocks, so I relented and bought some.

Anyway, this is an excellent video and it did inspire me. So watch.

She loved them.

I cut about 40 blocks in total. They ran around $30 because I used a better cut of wood. Well worth it.

Think Rosie will like?

Got inspired by a TED talk. Will post video later. On a side note, wood is very expensive.

Phone stand v2 Prototype

Banged this shape out in the basement tonight. Ya like?

ET Phone Home

Rosie's new Glasses

Fossilized Bone?

Found this rock out in the front yard today while talking to Rick. It has an odd shape to it for a rock and looks like it has an inner core like a marrow cavity (Trabeculae). Curious indeed.

It look suspiciously like a bone to me on first guess, but more likely just a oddly shaped rock. If you know anybody who wants to take a closer look please let me know. Curiosity kills me.

Words are nothing

My good friend @bc42 wrote an article about the power of words in social media. He tells an excellent story about his wife being full of compassion and giving a cherished coat to the homeless. Great story and I expect nothing less of C. She's a great lady.

The story remarks on some previous incidences of harsh words on our favorite platform, Twitter. Words do have meaning. The very power of language is in the tone of the words. I am as responsible as any; more so sometimes, I don't have as many filters it seems.

That being said, words are nothing compared to actions. Words only have weight in the way they are sent and more importantly the way they are received. @bc42 has never had an issue calling me out for being a dick nor I him. It's our way. We know the weight as it is intended.

Back to his post, the coat the C wanted to give to the homeless man was one that they had created memories in, the one that was cherished for personal and lovely reasons. C did not not talk about coats with the homeless man. She acted upon her feelings and gave him a coat. It was that action that showed her compassion. It was her follow-through that showed her heart. Not talking about it.

We see a lot of words in this electronic world, most of them useless, some of them meaningful, some just slacktivism. Take them for what you will, that is the weight. 

Anything else is sophomoric masturbation.

*this coming from a man who escalates faster than Uranium 235.

Why?

Is there a shortage of pillowcase dresses in Guatemala?

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Adobichu! I choose you!

Phone Stand Prototype

I have been wanting to build a phone stand out of wood for a while. Now I need to get some good wood of the right dimensions and I'm all set.

Bouncehouse

She Lurves It!