November 25, 2011
Eye Candy on Black Friday
Oh my eyes! Why does it look like it's moving? It's a static image! No really! (click here or on the thumbnail to enlarge and ruin your eyes! The small version doesn't do it justice!)
Tim & I were pretty impressed by this video of Lego Mindstorms NXT solving Rubik's Cube.
Good morning! We've been having a lazy one. Once again I had to restart the 1st Floor TiVo. Netflix on the Wii also had an update to enable Netflix For Kids. Now the kids are watching the 1937 classic Snow White. Caught up with my dad and his Wisconsin Thanksgiving.
I wanted to make a plug for the coolest YouTube video I've seen in a while. I got this tip from my friend Patrick Madrid in this tweet and I thanked him for it. I had the main TiVo play it on the big screen for my kids today. It's “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis. 2,460 stop motion frames, each done with Jelly Belly artwork backgrounds. 1,357 hours of work and 288,000 jelly beans. Watch more about the making of this video here.
Our friends from Belmont stopped by to visit for a few hours on their way back from Thanksgiving in Vermont. Their girls will stay with us for a couple of days. They dropped the four girls (theirs and ours) off at the mall and I'll pick them up later tonight. I'm just updating the kitchen netbook and enjoying some comfort food for dinner. I also have more setup to do for the basement TV.
I got to enjoy one of my favorite things of the season: eggnog flavored ice cream! I head out around 8:30 to pick the girls up from their shopping at The Mall of New Hampshire. (Yes, there's more than one in the state!) Once home they stayed up late talking and laughing, while I did more experimenting with the kitchen netbook. I was also tinkering with a little utility called youtube-dl. It was a testimony to how bloated Adobe Flash in that if I played a YouTube video at the site on this lightweight machine, it would have trouble keeping up, but if I downloaded the video as a standard MP4 video file, the netbook could play it smoothly.