Author Archives: SeanMcTex

Goings-On

March 10, 2008 – 9:03 am

“I’ve been one poor correspondent, I’ve been too too hard to find…”
Sorry about the scant posting of late, my little chickadees. Lots of life going on, and the A Photo A Day project was sucking up a bit of time in February, even though I didn’t manage to totally complete the challenge I set myself.
Here [...]

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My New Favorite Book

March 9, 2008 – 4:56 pm

Last week, Liam brought home a small book that he had created in school. I thought it was great, so am posting its entire text verbatim here. Enjoy!
Playdate with my dad pg 1
“OOOOOOH” this is going to be fun I said gleefuly on an early summer morning.  I am going on a very long play [...]

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Best. Warning. Ever.

February 24, 2008 – 8:27 pm

Found on Coke machine at Texas State University:

I love it both for the excruciating graphic and for the text, which sounds like a warning more to proctologists and gynecologists than soda-drinkers.

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Two Heroes

February 20, 2008 – 11:29 am

Two people that I have found myself looking up to lately:

There’s an 91 year old woman who volunteers at the Hays County Food Bank. While I will likely consider it a fairly major accomplishment to keep my nose hair well groomed and those darn kids off my lawn when I’m that age, she’s out there [...]

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Birthday Sculpture

February 16, 2008 – 8:40 am

For her friend Michael’s birthday, Emily made these casts of her hand spelling out “LOVE”, mounted them on a board, and gave them individual paint jobs. It has now assumed a place of honor in his room next to the audio-animatronic Gene Simmons action figure.
Spectacular work, Em!

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Guitar Rising

February 8, 2008 – 8:52 am

This is super-cool. The lads at GameTank recently unveiled Guitar Rising, an upcoming game for Mac and PC that’s modeled on Guitar Hero’s gameplay, but which requires you to play actually guitar parts on a real guitar. You’ll be able to use the guitar of your choice, as long as it has a pickup or [...]

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A Photo A Day Kicks Off Today

February 1, 2008 – 6:22 am

Well, a couple of my fun and camera-loving friends have decided to play along, so have created a dedicated page for the A Photo A Day adventure.
If anybody else is interested in joining in the frivolity, all you have to do is post a photo to Flickr  for each day in February, tagging each with [...]

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Cuckoo Clock

January 31, 2008 – 7:00 pm

Our department has an annual white elephant gift exchange. If you’ve never participated in one, they go something like this:

Player A chooses a wrapped gift from a pile and unwraps it.
Player B then can select another wrapped gift, or steal Player A’s. Player A then selects a new wrapped gift.
Player C selects a wrapped gift [...]

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XO Laptop: First Impressions

January 31, 2008 – 8:58 am

We got in our XO Laptop, the little unit that the One Laptop Per Child organization has begun producing and making available to poorer countries for less than $200 per laptop. (Read David Pogue’s article for a quick introduction to the concept.) Here are my first impressions after fiddling about with it for an hour [...]

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A Photo A Day Project

January 29, 2008 – 10:43 am

I’ve been feeling a bit frustrated lately that my creative output has been so meager. As a counter to that, I have decided to embark upon a project for February: A Photo A Day. Inspired in part by amboo_who’s faithful and excellent photographic chronicling of her daughter’s growth, I thought this would be a fun [...]

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