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May 24, 2003
Airzooka!
My latest gadget (watch out, you might get it as a gift) is the lots of fun: Airzooka!. This thing really works. "Shooting" a burst of air 20 feet is as simple as pulling back on the elastic sheet and letting go. Its more fun to be "shot." The sense of a ball of air just passing your ear is indescribable.
Posted by KnipSter at 08:46 PM | Comments (0)
House Hunting Again
Boy, would I like to be done with this. I'm not sure which I dread most... Buying a new house or selling our condo.... *sigh*
Posted by KnipSter at 09:19 AM | Comments (1)
May 17, 2003
Gaming Consoles
So my father went and bought himself a GameCube so that he can play the latest Zelda incarnation. My father's one of those "I dont like most games because I don't have good hand-eye coordination" kind of people. But the first Zelda for Nintendo64 caught his eye, and he bought that console for the Zelda incarnations on that platform.
My brother this past weekend won an X-Box! With 2 controllers and handful of games and a year of X-Box Live! Amazing... Of course I've got him to bring it over sometime today and perhaps we'll get it going on the .NET..
Update: Morgan's X-Box was lots of fun... We X-Box'ed Live (Ghost Recon) and I killed my teammate. I'm trying to get him to choose me as the XBox baby sitter while he goes up to the cape next week! We'll see....
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May 15, 2003
Extended Family...
So I'm a terrible guy. I didn't call my Grandmother for Mother's day until last night. We chatted for a while, its just silly that I let my time get squeezed by other stuff and don't take advantage of the reasonable times of the day to keep in touch.
Growing up, we were presented a strong sense of immediate family and its priority. As my own immediate family has begun, I find my focus even more devoted to it and, unfortunately at the expense of "extended" family and friends.
The events of September 11th triggered self-reflection (like that's hard for me). But even still, I tend to poorly maintain distance relationships with friends or family. I'm lucky to have these relationships with people that understand and "catching-up" is relaxed and fun. I guess its just that I equate the everyday routine with the support and caring for my immediate family.
PS. I plan on having some nerdier entries eventually...
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May 11, 2003
Learning at the Park
At the park, yesterday, we found ourselves playing next to a little Russian girl. Her babysitter could only say "No english, babysitter, Russian," which was nice.
But when the girls met up with each other they debated the name of a feature of the structure they were playing in. Maura insisted it was a ball, and the Russian girl, something else.
Then they playfully argued about the slide, and Maura kept saying "Dada," as I am the one to catch her.
Later Maura learned to climb a 3 rung ladder up to a platform. I'm sure you can picture me hovering behind her, ready to catch her at the slightest slip. I was proud, a terrified at the same time.
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Happy Mother's Day
So... Kieran has won this years Mother's Day competition: he slept all night (9:30pm -> 6:30am)! We're not getting our hopes up, but what wonderful timing.
We went to the park late yesterday afternoon. On the way, we had one of those insights that we've been together a long time (Friday was our 5 year anniversary!).
Lori starts "Oh if we have brought the the phone..." and failed to finish the sentance.
"Yes, if we have brought the phone and that... thing ... we could have..." I stumbled failing to find the words.
"Yeahhh," she sighed in agreement.
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May 07, 2003
Back Online
Apparently my web host got hacked and I lost some important PERL libraries during the recovery. I think I'm back.
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May 03, 2003
X-Men 2 (No Spoilers)
Was there a subtitle for this movie? I don't know. But what I do know is I was thoroughly entertained. I think X2 was better than the first in the series.
What I enjoyed was a greater devotion to the Human/Mutant friction with those that would incite the conflict. Its an interesting message during an interesting time.
I never had the patience or desire to following the Books (Comics), but I always enjoyed the TV cartoons (which makes me worse than ignorant I'd bet). Anyway, Morgan said that he heard the end had a treat in store for "the fans." I guessed it in the car, but didn't tell Morgan the guess until 5 minutes after the movie started. NO SPOILERS HERE.
Watching the movie actually has me considering reading more. Its too bad there isn't a library for Comic Books, how would I go about "catching up" if I wanted to ?
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