Posts Tagged ‘ fun ’

Scott Adams has a new Dilbert mashup on his main site, Dilbert.com. Very cool. The question posed is: are you funnier than Scott? You then get to change the punchline on the final pane of a Dilbert cartoon to something else … and people can vote on your version. Only problem: it didn’t work...
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OK, so the buy-the-t-shirt crack in the sidebar there under my pic was a joke. Really. But I needed something to do tonight, so I decided to actually make one. After all, who could possibly pass up the gen-you-wine one-uvva-kind most excellent and amazing Sparkplug 9 T-shirt? Not me. And most certainly not you....
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Professional photog Martin Weiss talks about how video can do a great job of explaining something … like a new product, service, tool. His link lead me to Funky Cloud, which has come out with the greatest little productivity app, LifeShaker: That is a great little movie – check it out. I loved it,...
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The kids all got their medals today from the Fraser Valley Regional Library summer reading club challenge.Aidan, when he came home with his, said now he’s got his first medal “so he can feel like a winner.”
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Ethan’s instructions: 1. Blow both balloons up first (to stretch the balloons) 2. Let the air out of both 3. Blow up the balloon that’s supposed to be bigger (on the outside) 4. While holding the outside balloon put the other balloon inside it 5. Blow up the inside balloon6. Blow up the outside...
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We’re currently on BC’s Sunshine Coast taking a week’s holiday. A couple of days ago we took a two-hour hike to Skookumchuck Narrows, which is where the tidal flow into a huge basin is constricted through a narrow passage and can exceed 30 km/hr. Really cool rapids and standing waves … which the kayakers...
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Ethan and Aidan were playing around with Photobooth, Apple’s fun picture-taking software that accompanies the newer iMacs and MacBooks with built-in cameras. A couple of the results: And one that they liked better: The painting you see in the back? It’s Jeroen Vermeulen‘s … their uncle (and my brother-in-law). ethan, aidan, john koetsier,...
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(a poem by Gabrielle Koetsier, age 10) Children sitting, solemn, silent. Bell rings! Screaming, yelling, violent! Running, rushing, up the stairs. “Children, wait!” nobody cares. School’s out! It’s summer! Time to play! No more teachers! Run away! We are going to the pool. Perfect way to keep us cool. Let’s go buy some lemonade!...
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This past Easter we, naturally, had an easter egg hunt. Each of the kids had a chance to hide the eggs and let the others find them. And Gabrielle, being the creative girl she is, had to make it more interesting … with clues. Here they are … Hrm …. in the library? Outside?!?...
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I love well-constructed and vivid language. Here’s a snippet I ran across today that inspired some memories: A few years back, I was struggling to liberate a new Barbie doll from the almost invincible packaging that imprisoned her … (Seen in an email newsletter from Character Counts … written by Michael Josephson.)
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I took the day off today and we spent the day at Mount Baker. Tubing, playing, feeding the birds … absolutely gorgeous: Here’s a short video that I took while tubing … following Gabrielle down the hill: mount baker, tubing, john koetsier
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aidan, snowboy, snowman, john koetsier
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Last year we had snow. This year, we have more: snow, vancouver, flickr, john koetsier
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So Aidan wanted to watch The Lord of the Rings. I said no, it’s too scary for 3-year olds. He disagreed, saying that he would not be scared. “I’m tough!” he declared. Teresa backed me up, telling Aidan that there were lots of parts in LOTR that she was even scared by. He thought...
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So we were at some friends’ place this afternoon and they have a cat. Gabrielle told Aidan that cats like to play with string, and that he might like to wiggle a string in front of the cat. Aidan took the string, and held it with both hands horizontally in front of the cat....
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