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since I last posted. Yeah, I know. I've been doing stuff. I also noticed that it's been a real long time since I posted any photos . . . so here goes . . .

I found this guy at the annual, Miracle on Kansas Avenue Christmas Parade on Saturday night. My daughter was in the parade with the rest of her gymnastics team. It was cold, but fun. You can see the rest of these photos in my set at Flickr.

A couple weeks ago one of the guys I work with offered me some free tickets to Heartland Park, a raceway here in Topeka, for the NHRA Lucas Oil Championships. First I had to make sure there were no conflicting events like soccer, bmx or birthday parties. It fit conveniently in so I checked with the kids to see if they were interested - and they were. I just hoped that they'd be able to tolerate the intense sounds. I remember, very vaguely, a trip to a race when I was very, very young. I couldn't handle it. The roar of the engines is much louder than you can imagine unless you experience it first-hand. Here's one of the many pictures I took:
  We didn't stay for long - about two or three hours. As someone who isn't incredibly interested in auto racing, ( especially drag racing ) it got kind of boring watching for two long. I was able to buy some earplugs at concessions for me and the kids so the noise wasn't really that big of an issue. I managed to take a few pictures and a couple videos. Follow the link below to see them.

My 11 year-old son is trying his hand at stop-motion animation.

I loaned him my camera and tripod and we created a short ( about 7 seconds or so ) little film with Windows Movie Maker. He did all the clay and animation stuff with a little help from his little sister. She manned the camera for a while. I helped out with uploading the pictures and figuring out the movie maker software.

For now, the windows movie file resides on the web host's server. But, I think we are going to look at uploading the video to You Tube and see if that works better for him. We're learning a few things by doing this and I think it would be kind of cool if he started sharing his experiences while doing this.

It is no longer a mystery. See why.

Now this is a pretty cool mash up. A Flight Simulator blended in with Google Maps. It's called Goggles. Fly your plane over the city. It'll bank to the left and right. It'll dive and climb.

Are you a big fan of popping the bubbles on plastic bubble wrap? Well have at it. Pop those bubbles till you can't pop anymore. When you're done, make a new sheet.

Spice up your conversation with some of these..

Like Spiderman, Ironman, or Elektra? Look no further. You can find out at the Superhero Database.

The Name Decoder will take the first initials of your name and generate an image of the avatar of your choice with your name decoded appropriately. You can choose a robot name, a monster name, or a sexy name.

I scored 90% on this driving test. I haven't taken one of these in quite a while. So, I must admit I was a little surprised to find that I scored as well as I did. Also surprising, the state in which I live ( Kansas ) scored 8th in the nation for Most Knowledgeable Drivers. If you live in Oregon give yourself a pat on the back. You came in #1. If you live in Rhode Island, well, sorry to tell you that you came in last. This fact and others can be found here.

This one's for you, Aleah. Interestingly enough, there is an outbreak of alien cow abductions.

Here are thrity-two fun ways to tick people off.

From the greatest thinkers of our time. Words of wisdom. Words to live by.

I couldn't help but play with this for a while.

Wanna try your hand at streaking, virtually that is . . .

Go ahead. Give it a try. Test the Internet's psychic ability. After you've played with it for a while, and are totally mystified and stupified, go read this to see how it works.

Can you be the biggest fish? This is a fun game. Kinda addictive too.

I stumbled across this test today. At this website you are offered the opportunity to draw a pig - with your mouse - and the results can tell you about your personality.

Could this be a resurgence in the hunt for bigfoot? A Cree Indian claims that his video is footage of Bigfoot. Inside Edition has a team of researchers heading into the Great White North to find Bigfoot - so we can rest assured that this will be given a great deal of scientific attention.