New Photos! (and videos)

I posted some new pictures in my Facebook albums, from the Wizard of Oz, and other stuff this summer. I'll be taking more Wizard of Oz pictures through our next weekend, I'm sure. In the meantime, here are a few videos for ya!

Pulling into the station at Steamtown, USA (Scranton, PA). This was just after we'd gotten off the train.


Emily riding on the Segway we rented (Joe is debating changing his commuting vehicle to save gas)


And....Matthew's turn


And...the kids having fun with the ambient music at Hershey Park.


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Another Level

OK, so I thought I loved Neil Patrick Harris a lot before. But, then my friend Adrienne pointed her readers to this video. Can you stand it?

The Shoe Fairy on Sesame Street

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Weird and Innovative and ... Sympathetic

I don't know what makes me both sort of get icked out by this and want to sort of hug it at the same time, but here it is ... an truly inventive and amazing and yet somehow loveable and still creepy robot critter thing.



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Shift Happens

We had a Back to School Night for Millville's Gifted and Talented (GT) program last night. Part of the presentation included this brief video. I found it fascinating. In the scope of the GT scene, it seemed particularly relevant.

How do we prepare our students for a world we can't even imagine? I've been reading a bit on the Accelerating Change idea. The principle that not only is the world changing rapidly, but that those changes are occuring at an increasingly rapid pace.

I mean, take a look .... granted, from an evolutionary standpoint ....

Anyway, enjoy the video and take some time to just think about the incomprehensibly different-from-now world our own children will take for granted soon enough.

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As Promised

Well, Ulead still isn't capturing audio, which I don't fathom as it's always worked before. But, I used Windows Movie Maker (ugh!) and then converted into Divx, but then it didn't work right again, so I'm back to a WMV file, which I hope works here. *whew*

To preface, we arrived at 12:30pm which we thought was 1/2-hr early for a 1pm game. Well, we had our weeks wrong. The game actually started at 11am, and we barely made it in time. Matthew got to play for about 10 game minutes of the 4th quarter (He's a B-teamer, so he probably would only have played that much even had we been there the whole time. His team lost 20-0. Ouch.). Still Matthew had some good action, making some nice blocks and getting a kickoff "return."

He's #54 in the orange jersey. I have trouble finding him in some of the plays, so don't feel bad if you have no idea where he is. I think the highlight is the post-game interview. ;)



Hope this works.

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