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SparkFun Free Day Aftermath
Back on January 7th I participated in SparkFun’s FreeDay and just barely got the order in before the closing bell. Below is a quick shot of the booty which includes enough parts for me to prototype my next small robot.
Pictured, top to bottom, left to right, is the Arduino Duemilanove, Two Nordic Tranceivers, an Arduino […] Continue reading
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GeekDad on ABCNewsNow Today at 3:30pm Eastern/12:30pm Pacific
You might remember back in August, I was invited onto the show Parenting With Annie Pleshette Murphy on the ABCNewsNow digital cable channel. Well, I must not have screwed up too badly, because they asked me back, this time to talk about iPhone apps for kids (something we do talk a bit about around here). […] Continue reading
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Smoking in Avatar Ruffles Feathers and Highlights Hypocrisy
Smoking in movies has always been a hot topic and reason for controversy. Now with the very popular Avatar coming under fire for depicting smoking, one has to wonder – is smoking in movies really a threat to our way of life? Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Avatar, Everything Else, Hollywood, James Cameron, Movies, Smoking
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Is There an Upper Limit to Crayola’s Law?
I knew Crayons had been around a while, but I didn’t know they were over a hundred years old. And during that time, Crayola’s non-specialty colors have gone from 8 to 133 with a few retired colors along the way. The folks over at weathersealed.com gathered the color information and dates from wikipedia to create […] Continue reading
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Hokey Religions And Ancient Weapons Are No Substitute For A Good Snowball Blaster At Your Side
While Han Solo might have had a need for a good snowball blaster at his side (especially during those boring downtimes on Hoth), the Wham-O Snowball Blaster wouldn’t have cut the mustard with the Corellian smuggler. The Snowball Blaster is a product that fills an altogether unnecessary need – it molds snowballs and launches them, […] Continue reading
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Tagged Everything Else, Snow, Snowball, Toys and Technology, Wham-O
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Girl Guides of Canada Launches 100th Anniversary Celebrations
The Girl Guides of Canada launched their centennial celebration over the past weekend, recognizing the 1910 foundation of the organization in Canada, with the first troop established in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Across Canada, various government organizations are gearing up to help the Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) celebrate this milestone in 2010. Among the notable events […] Continue reading
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Tagged Everything Else, Girl Guide, Girl Guides of Canada, Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting, Member of Parliament, Ontario, Projects and Activities, Scouting, St. Catharines
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Have You Appreciated a Dragon Today?
Surely you knew that today, January 16, is Appreciate a Dragon Day!
How does one tell a mythical creature we appreciate it? You could doodle a little sketch of a dragon and give it to Mom. Maybe you could play a dragon-centric RPG like D&D or Shadowrun, or wear an awesome Dragon Fire T-Shirt (pictured above) […] Continue reading
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Are You a Renaissance Soul?
I have always been frustrated by the fact that I can’t stick with most things long enough to get good at them. I find a new project or hobby, do it for a little while and then get bored very quickly. Once I become familiar enough with the interesting points, I drop it and move […] Continue reading
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I Think the Word You’re Searching for is Lego Space Ranger
Our postman braved the frozen wasteland that our sleepy suburb has become, trudging through this morning’s snow and ice to deliver us the January 2010 Lego catalog. Always a good day where bedtime stories are abandoned in favor of a careful perusal of what new sets the catalogue has to offer, and what new sets […] Continue reading
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