Battlestar Rhapsody

Merry X-Mass

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is the Christmas Story. It all begins with three wise men following the star of Bethlehem to a manger.


Merry Christmas to all

Cat Tape Experiments

Narration by Stephen Hawking?

Happy B-Day

Happy 2nd Birthday Dennis. His birthday was the 15th of this month, so I'm a little late, sorry buddy. This is a video of my favorite Dennis moment. This was filmed at Abbey's birthday back in June.

You know the drill!

Kelly's comin' to MO-field! Thanks everyone for the help with the plane tickets, I needed all the help I could get.

So, the plan is:
1) Land in Kansas City on December 24th at 6:20pm.
2) Get ride to Springtown from [[ERROR: DRIVER NOT FOUND]].
3) Drink egg nog with family until the 31st.
4) [[ERROR: DRIVER NOT FOUND]] has volunteered to drive me to Lawrence where I will celebrate New Years before departing until I have enough money to come back.

In other news, guess who has a magic trick on iTunes!

Bonus:
Love it or hate it, here's the intro for Beatles Rock Band, directed by a Gorillaz guy.

X-treme X-tree Challenge 2009!!!

I figured it would be fun to have everyone post pictures of their tree decorations this year. So, find a tree, throw some crap in it, and take a picture! If you don't have a tree, find one in someone's yard and then throw your crap in it! It's a tree trashing frenzie folks! There are no rules except don't talk about fight club! Do it! Here's some pics to start everyone off:

The Meaning of Life

Don Hertzfeldt's most artsy film yet.

World Cup

With all this World Cup stuff going on, and the Olympics only a few months away, here is a little soccer sketch.

Happy in Paraguay

From: DJO ~ makers of the world's finest styrofoam nuns for over 68 thousand years.

Two Mom Has a Picture - With Peter Pan

BRANSON STARS - CATHY RIGBY, 2-MOM..... AND FRIENDS (HO). IT WAS A BLAST. CATHY WAS SOOOO TINY, BUT A GREAT PETER PAN! AUTOGRAPHS FOR SALE....

I've Been Outbid!!

I placed a bid on ebay for a Christmas present for Riley. I started at 99 cents, but was willing to go up to $5. However, someone has outbid me, AND marked their territory by placing an additional safety bid. Should I keep going? (please note item measurements)

Here's the link:

Wake Up Little Buddha

Projection on Buildings

This is awesome. . . . Did I mention this is awesome?

Merry Thanksgiving from the Milkman, Breedles, Brekins, Kelroy, and Ahhson.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Top Gear Vietnam Special

One of the best things I've seen on TV, though make sure you have an hour and 15 minutes to kill. Also, I couldn't find a good embed, so here's a link.

Top Gear Vietnam Special

Do Not Adjust Your Mind

CHOP CUP from :weareom: on Vimeo.

For your listening pleasure

This is a funny death metal version of some mario music:



This is the music I wrote for Nixa's band this year in case you haven't heard it yet:

There's an app for ... air?

Wow. Kelly, maybe you can play off of this for some interactive feature in your iPhone games!

Blow Real Air With Your iPhone

Interesting Animal Collective video

Well, I'm not sure who besides dad thinks my music isn't weird, so I'm mostly posting this for him.

Animal Collective - My Girls from Rob Chesnutt on Vimeo.

Your Parents love you! Yay!

Confirmed: R2-D2 Discovered in Star Trek

At last, here's the droid we were all looking for. In this frame you can clearly see R2-D2's cameo in JJ Abrams' Star Trek. This time there's absolutely no doubt about it: It's been confirmed by ILM.

Can you see him floating there, on the left, right below the huge arrow that I also missed when I saw the movie? That's obviously him, a fact that has been confirmed to me by one of the movie's sequence supervisors at Industrial Light & Magic—the same guy who said this previous sighting was just the shuttle.

Click on the image at this link to see the high resolution version

http://gizmodo.com/5405276/confirmed-r2+d2-finally-discovered-in-star-trek

Rock Band Voice Engine Tricked By Something Called a "Musical Instrument"

On one hand, what's happening here is very simple: Rock Band's singing feature just senses pitch, not words, so it's perfectly reasonable that a flute—or indeed almost any instrument—could do the trick. On the other? This is art.

The musical cosmos have been tilted out of balance for quite a while now, violently thrown askew sometime between when the first fake guitar rolled off an assembly line in China and the first time a child recognized the Beatles on the radio as "that song from my Xbox!"

Today, as we watch a young lady with a flute totally pass for a Very Serious Yelling Man with a facial tattoo, it feels like, in some small way, order has been restored.

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

He he

Well, actually this post is just for me and Riley

Hiro made a Chrono Trigger joke!



I like hating on Heroes as much as everyone else nowadays, but this deserved some credit.

I Can Haz for Christmas ?

For about $20, this tiny HoverDrone will hover and flash its little lights. And then the dog will eat it.

Sorry, it's inevitable, as proven in the ThinkGeek demo video above.

ThinkGeek is billing this as the smallest hovering device they've ever sold, so there's that too.

Requires a handful of AA's and the controller has the ability to control two drones at once.

Besides, I need a new way to torture the cat.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/be00/

John Gibbo needs help with his thesis

If you're not busy, he needs people to sample a couple different social sites and compare to his in a survey. One is facebook, which most of us are already familiar with. Email me if you have any questions, but here are John's instructions:

Hello Everyone,

I'm in need of people to try out three different web site and evaluate their usefulness. The dead line for completion is October 31stso I'm in need of as much help as I can get this week. If you are already familiar with facebook, then take just an hour to help me out and complete these user evaluations. The instructions are below:


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Hello User,

Thank you participating in this user survey of the following web applications:
Facebook
Clip Marks
Friend Lens

To participate in this survey you must meet the following minimum requirements:
1. If not already installed, install Firefox 3.0 or greater. (Internet Explorer and Chrome will not benefit our survey. We also request that all participants use the same web browser in the hopes to removing interface inconsistencies)
2. Create an account at each site
3. If any of the web applications require a firefox plug-in please follow the instructions on the respective site in order to do so. (Note: Installation of Facebook "Apps" are not required for this survey)

The survey that you will take can be found at http://friendlens.no-ip.org (it is a large link in the top menu after login)

Part of the survey is to evaluate the ease and intuitiveness of using a particular site, so you will not be given instructions here. In other words, it up the each web application to teach you how to use it. Feel free to look over the survey before you begin to ensure that you can confidently reply to all questions.

Important notes:
1. If any web site is unreachable or down, please notify the survey coordinator, John Gibbons, immediately

2. Remember to be as unbiased in your responses as possible. Do not allow prior familiarity with any of the web applications or knowledge of the origins of a web application to influence your responses.

3. This is an open survey. You can forward this email to anyone you wish as long as they will follow all of the instructions.

4. All survey submissions are anonymous. You do not have to submit or post personal information if you do not want to.

5. There is no time limit on how long you can use a given web application, but please spend at least 30 minutes with each before moving onto the survey.


Web Site URLs

Facebook
Clip Marks
Friend Lens

Thank you very much for your time. It is greatly appreciated.

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If you could email me back and let me know if you can help and/or send this email along to friends, family, or coworkers I would appreciate it.

Sincerely,


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John Gibbons

Since You're Moving - You Might Need One of These

happiness hat from Lauren McCarthy on Vimeo.

Ahhson and the Milkman have a house!

WE HAVE A HOUSE!!!

We closed on our house this afternoon after school! Yeah!! Tonight, tomorrow, and Friday we will be painting, fixing things, and finishing packing at the apartment. We will probably be at the house most of the time the next few days, so if anyone wants to come see it (painting anyone?) just give us a call! Sorry Kelly and Ohio kids - you're not invited this time. But we will have a guest bedroom ready for you guys sometime soon.

Moving day is Saturday. We will probably start moving around 8:00ish with some Lamar's to help us out. I know, it's early - but we've got to get moved out of the apartment and clean the place up before the office closes. They are currently calling for sunny weather. Thank the gods. Hopefully it stays that way!

Darth Vader is Coming to America

Response Post

First, dad's Pulp Fiction post is nothing, this guy does a 64 part acapella to Thriller.


Also, the editing has begun.

It's Like "Stomp" (except using video clips for music)

This ones for Riley

For all those interested in 'ant' opology

Here is something that may help you understand just what it means to be an anthropologist. It is an interesting field because it includes SO much! Enjoy

Evil Singing Robot Of Death Should Be Smashed With A Hammer

The Yamaha HRP-4C sings for the crowd this week at the CEATEC conference in Tokyo. What comes out of its mouth is pure evil: Listen at your own risk. Clearly the robot revolution will start with a song.

Well, Well, Well....Happy Frikin' birthday

Well, it seems that there was a failure to remember my birthday this year. As any self respecting middle child should do, I am going to lash out and voice my pain (and not expect a response).

Those that would like to atone for their crimes may leave a comment in the comments section of my birthday post, and maybe I will be gracious enough to forgive you in the future.

So, to all those that chose not to honor this special day with a special birthday post for me, here is a little something I got you.

That's right, remember this for next year m'Kay?

Alcohol vs Gravity

Innappropriate Kids Movies

My turn! Glad I didn't pick up on this stuff when I was a kid.

Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction

World Hunger VS Religion

This one's for... Alli? Just because you care about the environment, that means you're an activist for all major issues, right?



But hey, we've been talking about religion for a while. Maybe we should relax and watch some Sesame Street. The guy who made this is now a Pixar bigshot and was the feature of the Boundin' short.

Speaking of Ghosts

Hmmm, a Star Trek ghost face?

Don't think she ordered it that way.

You Don't See This Everyday

Hope this works. My first video post (hopefully). Anyway this group from Dayton History spoke to my class tonight and this was one of the projects they were talking about.

Before anyone asks, yes they really did have a group of bagpipers playing and marching in front of the first house.

How to Sneeze

They showed this at school. Ahaha...

Why do I live here?

Mykl and I were watching t.v. tonight and saw this commercial. One of those things that make me wonder why we live here? Why??

Here is some Ghost......Maybe?

Hey its my favorite month, October. The start of the Hockey season, the beginning of fall, and its the best time of year for ghost hunting. In fact October is when we've gotten our best ghost pics at Gettysburg. Charlie got the Druid in the mirror, and I got the pics in the Jennee Wade house. Next October I'm going to try and go to Gettysburg and Antietam, just for the purpose of ghost hunting, screw the history. Any of you are more then welcome to join me (says yea right under his breath). But that's next year. Here is a creepy photo to get you into the Halloween spirit.

Those Gummy Bear Bastards - And How to Deal With Them

Shredding the Accordion

Video Games VS Religion

This ones for you Kelly

(just keeping the thread going)

Logic VS Religion

Dad, this is pretty much for you.

A Tribute to the Old Back Yard

Well the old back yard is pretty much gone now.

Along with century old Oak trees, fresh air, and a lot of memories.

So I made a little short story piece and put it to video for a Current thing.

The music may seem awkward, but I wanted a "pissed off" type song.

Courtney Love pretty much fits that genre.

And it all comes together in the end.

http://current.com/items/91056340_jacobs-field.htm

Found a house - Moving in about a month!

Mykl and I found a house in Portland! Or rather, on Portland Street - in Springfield. Still, it's really exciting! Here are a few pictures from the real estate listing.

The house is near Rutledge Farm (near Sunshine and West Bypass for you Springfieldians out there). It's also really close to some Greenways bike trails and a creek. It's a three bedroom two bath that's about 9 years old - so hopefully it is fairly energy efficient due to insulation and newer appliances. A couple rooms need new paint (kitchen and bathroom), but overall not a lot of maintanance needed. Super excited about the big back yard - I have big plans for an organic garden next summer and a compost system this fall! And a PUPPY!

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' (Cosmos Remixed)

One of my hero's (Carl Sagan) has just released a new song, with some backup vocals by Stephen Hawking (another hero)

I would have to put this in the category of "Awesome," but that's just me.

Enjoy!

Kelly's new job

I got a job! I know I said that before, but that other job was a little sketchy, so I kept looking. Good thing too! I'm now a game tester at Nintendo.

This is a good way to pay the bills and still allow me to pursue my adventures. Plus, I have access to Nintendo merc and I get to find out about cool games before they're announced to the public. The bad news is I have to keep it a secret, sorry guys!

Glenn Beck Insanity Continues...

Mykl and I are continually amazed by the utter stupidity of Glenn Beck. We like to keep an eye out for him because he is so damn unintentionally funny! He's frequently quoted on Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. This is from several months ago, but has two of my favorite Glenn Beck moments and some pretty funny stuff from the Colbert Report.

Enjoy!

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The 10.31 Project
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Protests

Eric Idle Responds to Your Fatuous Comments

You Gotta Love Insanity

Im' not really into all the talking heads on the news these days with their political opinions and whatnot. But I do like to watch insanity in action,

and I've been hearing a lot about this guy lately, and now I see why. Remember, this is supposed to be NEWS.

Abbey & Dennis help Pop-Pop fix a bike

Here are some cute pictures of Abbey and Dennis that I finally got around to storing on my computer. They are pretty much self explanitory.

On a completely unrelated note, I went on a tour of the University's archives a couple of weeks ago. Since we are Wright State University we have a large collection of papers that deal with aviation history. One of the collections we have is the Walter Matthew Jefferies collection. Jefferies did a lot of work for Boeing and Lockheed-Martin but his real claim to fame is designing the original Starship Enterprise!!!

Of course we do not have those plans in our collection (they belong to Paramount) but we do have the work he did designing airplanes and other types of aircraft. Interesting that Star Trek would consult a designer of actual aircraft to create their fictional starship. From the research that I did he really put some thought into his design, he figured (for instance) that the engines were not safe enough to attach to the main cabin so he kept them seperate.

Well, enough weird info for one day. Back to homework!!!

Half Done is not Done

Hey, I just finished recording half of my movie. I need to make space on my camera for the next half so I deleted some of my old videos. But before I delete them I figured I could share some of them. After watching this you'll see why I chose to delete them.



Pure crap.

Andy Richter is a genius

Make sure you check Ahhson's post below because it's more important, I just wanted to mention that Andy Richter destroyed at celebrity jeopardy, even up against Wolf Blitzer (whom was not so quick with the buzzer).



This was before final jeopardy, where they gave Wolf a pity $1000, and Andy ended up with $68,000. I expect nothing better from one of my heroes.

¡¡Vamos a comprar una casa!!

Mykl and I have exciting news!! (no I'm not pregnant - thank the gods) We just got financial approval to buy a house! We had been up in the air about whether or not to buy one yet, but found out that the $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers can be applied as part of your downpayment. That combined with the super-low interest rates helped us decide that we should probably take advantage of free money and go for it. Just got a real estate agent working for us, and we should be out house shopping within the next week!

The very excitinig part of all of this is that having a house means that we will have a yard - which means I get a PUPPY!!! YEAH!!! I think I may be more excited about the puppy than the house. Not sure what kind we will get yet - I suppose it depends how big our yard is, and what kinds of puppies they have at the shelter. Super excited though!!

U.S. Mint New Quarters

The U.S. Mint is going to do national park quarters in 2010. Gettysburg will be released in 2011. The Missouri one will be of the Ozark National Scenic River way. It will be out in 2017, if the world is still around then. Sounds pretty cool. Oh by the way, try not to shop at Wal-Mart if you don't have to. I don't really care about there labor issues, I mean everyone knows that Wal-Mart uses you, abuses you, then loses you, but there building one on the Gettysburg Battlefield, and another on the Wilderness battlefield. That's just the line.

Here is one for Riley, have you ever heard of "Script Ohio". They do it every halftime at The Shoe.


I still say the Marine Corps band is the best in the land. Presidents own after all.

Put it to the Test

Sorry for the repeat post, but my favorite science video made it to youtube.

The news is still being autotuned

And it's still silly.



There's several of these now. How long until it's on a TV show?

ROFLMAO

Here Comes Science

Yup, TMBG has a new kid's album about science. In this one, they promote such evil socialisms as environmentalism and evolution. Don't worry, I already mailed them a hundred Bibles with "The Only Real Science Textbook" written on the front.

This album seems to be on a higher level than the ones about ABCs and 123s, but that's to be expected. I'm guessing History's next up to bat.

Even if you thin electric cars are ridiculous or Satanic, this video is pretty.


This one is actually written by their bassist. It could probably be written to be about Anthropology, but I don't think anyone's interested in ants.

We all live in a Yellow Planet Express Ship

For those who haven't seen it, this is the intro for Bender's Game.

Berlin Tower - Lift Off

If Berlin can do it, so can Seattle.

I Got Nothing

It's the never anticipated Joe meets Steve Mason video. So enjoy.


Man, that sucked.

Git that Mario!

This is a store soda display. There can be no words to describe it...epic win.

9 (original short)

From what I gather, this was a student short by up and coming filmmaker Shane Acker that is being made into a feature film.

Scariest Opening to 2001 - EVER

Riley, this orchestra desperatly needs your help!

Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis

Caution kiddies - Explicit language! . . . er . . text!

Good News For Everybody

Hey good news. I get to meet Steve Mason on Friday. I'll take photos so you all can relive it.

Now for some better news. The Seattle trip is off. Not knowing how high 2009's taxes are going to be, I'm still paying on 2008's, I can only afford to travel to places within a 400 mile radius on Columbus. So we have decided to go instead to, that's right you guessed it, GETTYSBURG. I know this is a waist of time, but your all more then welcome to join us. Where going to try June, our late July.

The Next Step...

Some of you may already know this, but I was recently accepted back into Wright State University in order to work on my Master's Degree. I have chosen a two year Public History program which means in two years I will be able to run a museum or historical site or work in the archives of a museum, a library, or a corporation. Last year's graduates from this program have already been placed in good jobs so I am excited about my prospects upon completing this degree.

In my first quarter I get to go on several site evaluations including Perryville Battlefiled and Richmond Battlefield in Kentucky. At Perryville we will be there for the re-enactment, which is kind of exciting because I have never seen a re-enactment before. I also have to start thinking about where I want to do my internship this summer. Since my area of interest is the Cold War my top spots are the Reagan Library, The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum or the Military Museum, or the Air Force Museum in Dayton where they are working with a grant to build a oral history of the techonolgy developed during the Cold War. I also wouldn't mind working at other sites including, but not limited to, Mount Vernon, Monticello, Yorktown, and or Gettysberg. The program has connections with all of these places so all I need to do pick one and make sure my bills can be covered and my current job preserved while I do my internship.

I'm excited about this. I start back to school on September 8th so I have less than two weeks to get everything in gear and so I can continue my punishing schedule of working fulltime, schooling fulltime, and studying full time, oh well I guess sleep is overrated.

SNL - La policia mexicana

The Spanish teacher inside of me thought that this was hilarious! Those of you who have taken a foreign language before will probably enjoy this as well. I showed it to my Spanish II's this week.

Eco Art - Snappy Dugouts

This is my entry to the "Eco - Art" contest at Current.com

It had to be made from trash and be "artsy."

So, it would be nice if you fellow Currenteers:

Mugglechica

Kelroy

Musicbender

Could give it a VOTE UP, and maybe a comment too!

Thanks for your support!

Here's the link if the video doesn't show up here:

http://current.com/items/90717480_eco-art-snappy-dugouts.htm

Sweet Adeline Bird

Bus stuff

So, it looks like I'm arriving in Springfield on a greyhound at 6am tomorrow (the 23rd). Anyone want to pick me up? My bus number is 1364 I think, though I'm not sure how useful that is.

Wanna Watch Your Walls Melt?

Something oddly familiar about this, in more ways than one.

Video tour

Hey, here's our new place! My room still needs work.

Hitler is Hi-larrr-ious

This would be Hitler's response to that Usain Bolt guy from Jamacia getting that world record run. Good stuff, but Hitler loves to cuss so watch out.

Garden Almost Gone

The garden is almost all done. The carrots where delicious, and the Potatoes where great. We got about 15 cucumbers. Where going to make Gyro sauce and pickles with them. The tomatoes are only a week away from being totally red. I got about 100 of those, where going to can them.

My little movie about aliens of Gettysburg is on hold until I find some fake glasses, and some white hair spray. All the beards and mustaches I got are black, and I need some white ones. With Halloween just a few months away I shouldn't have any trouble finding the stuff I need in a few weeks. I have to do the old man first, he sets the pace of the movie. That's about all I've got.

This is Too Kewl - 360 Degree Timelapse

John Yettaw

If you're bored, this is one of the most interesting Missouri residents I've read about, but maybe I just like good stories (hint hint to any writers).

Happy Birthday Kelroy!

I didn't know what to get you, so I had this fat guy make you a painting.

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Conan will blow up your car

Any cars you want to get rid of? I'm thinking a short film RotA-style might convince some people.

Bill Clinton saves Current reporters!

North Korea pardons US reporters

I'm assuming we bargained for them though, so I'm wondering what we gave Uncle Kim :(

I got a job too..

Since everyone else seems to be getting new jobs (congrats Dee Dee and Kelly) I thought I would go and get me one too. Last week I was offered a job at St. James the Less Catholic School. I will teach teachnology to grades K-8 and some Language Arts to grades 6-8. Also, I will be responsible for helping other teachers to implement the massive amounts of technology this school has into their lessons, and I will have to do the maintanenece on all of the equipment. That last part is the only thing that is a little scary, but the principal knows that I have no expereince with that and there is a person there that will help me learn all of this stuff. With there being so few teaching jobs in Ohio I am very excited!

The best part of this is I get to quit the job I have worked at for eight LONG years! Though I am leagally unable to mention their name on the internet, they have put me and many members of the family though a great deal of crap and I will not miss them! My last day there is August 12 and my first day of school is August 24. I can't wait, but mainly I can't wait for next summer when I don't have to work (that is why people become teachers, right?).