I Love My Dad

Honda car commercial

I was on the phone with Dad until midnight last night – he was trying to go to the links on my recent blog entry about the Honda car commercial and the fantastic machine, but he didn’t have the flash player he needed, so I walked him through it. We finally figured it out (hard … Read more

Masked Marauders In My Yard

When I lived on the Outer Banks I was fortunate to have a house located on 12.5 acres, surrounded by Nature Conservancy land, so it was not uncommon to be visited by critters of all kinds (read about them here). I had deer, fox, snakes, HUGE snapping turtles, nutria, giant Osprey, big ‘ol green warty … Read more

How Did They DO That?

Fantastic Machine

I received both of the following videos by email and they are just too good not to share. The first is a commercial for the Honda Accord that aired in the U.K. There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything you see happened in real time, exactly as you see it. … Read more

Another Fish Out Of Water

All this time I thought I was the only “Kook” in my family. Then my niece, Kelly, sent me this photo of her bedroom wall (probably a bad description, since you can’t see the wall for the photos). In case you can’t make it out, her bedroom wall, which is located in north central Illinois, … Read more