Art Contest

Click over to my blog to read about a sweet art contest!!

Tetris Heaven

Playmobil, 2011

For those of you out there still interested in playing with Playmobil, but are sick-and-tired of the lame pirates, cowboys and knights, check this: The brand new Playmobil Apple Store Playset. Now your kids can become cult followers of Apple products before they can even spell i-phone.

Available at Think Geek: $179.99

Nate is back

I am working on assembling the art work I have created over my long life and uploading it to my blog. I hope that this is an enjoyable change from my two random posts each year.

The Force is Strong With This One

It took me longer than I had planned, but I am happy to report that I am finally finished editing Nate and Katie's wedding video. For those who didn't get to attend I hope to have captured the spirit of the occasion. For those who were there, especially Katie and Nate, I hope that it will bring back good memories. And for those who don't like Dumb Dumb Dog... I've got some bad news for you!

Nate and Katie should be receiving their copy in a few days, the rest of you will follow shortly. Enjoy.

Fontastico

Michal gave me an amazing book for Christmas called Alphabesties and Other Amazing Types, a children's-ish book with pictures of animals (for each letter of the alphabet) created from type. Unfortunately I can't bring myself to let the boys read the book without serious supervision... maybe they will enjoy this video:

The Alphabet from n9ve on Vimeo.

Merry Christmas Everyone! (revised)

Why?

Why won't this blog site allow me to change my primary email address to a gmail address? What do I do if/since we're switching from comcast to verizon Fios?

Pop's Christmas List

Some of you have asked what Pop wants for Christmas. His original list had one item, a sweater, which I have already purchased. So we finally pursuaded him to write a longer list. [I've left off the "underwear".]

dress winter hat--more like Indiana Jones than Captain Ramias--in a color other than brown

athletic shorts, not too short, Adidas [please, for all our sakes', no old-school basketball]

classical CDs by good orchestras with known conductors: (someone Bob K. would recognize and recommend, Pop says)
Mozart
Bach
Handel
Hayden
Tchaikovsky
Vivaldi

then, after giving it even more thought he suggests

a donation to Harvest Ministry in Philadelphia and prayer for its ministry to those who struggle with sexual sin

a donation to Christ Academy at Grace Reformed Episcopal Chruch in Colingdale, PA and prayer for Mike Fitzpatrick and the faculty and student body. Christ Academy is a classical boys high school near Philadelphia. Many of their students are from Liberia.

a donation to Barnabas Aid and prayer for those who suffer poverty and persecution for their faith in Christ

Love, Mom

Sabers Only

I actually saw this a couple weeks ago done by someone else and it just kind of fell flat. I thought "man, that could have been great!" and now... here it is: great.

To Jill

David commented on the Christmas wish list post by Mom with what's on his list. I thought I could help by posting a pic.

- Matt

Road trips

For those of you taking road trips in the next couple of weeks here is a list that may come in handy. A recent pole of Americans (though, I'm not sure of the average age) came up with this list of top 10 road trip songs:

1. On the Road Again by Willie Nelson
2. Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf
3. Take It Easy by The Eagles
4. I Get Around by The Beach Boys
5. Highway to Hell by AC/DC
6. Free Falling by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
7. Riders on the Storm by The Doors
8. I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night by Kiss
9. Wanted: Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi
10. Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

So how about you? What are your favorite songs to listen to while cruising down Route 66?

Some video from New Orleans

Jazz on Bourbon

Beignets

Christmas List

Dear Family,
In the past we selected the name of the brother (or sister) for whom we were to buy or make a Christmas gift on the day after Thanksgiving. Last year was the first time we deviated from that tradition in order to include everyone in the gift exchange. In case you have forgotten the new routine, you will be buying a gift for each sibling in turn. This year you will buy for the one next younger to the one you bought for last year--except for Ben who bought for Jesse last year and will therefore buy for Peter this year.
Here, for those of you who cannot remember as far back as last December, is this year's gift list:
Peter buys for William
Matthew buys for Jesse
Ben buys for Peter and family
Jon buys for Matt and Emily
Nate buys for Ben and family
Thomas buys for Jon
David buys for Nate and Katie
Stephen buys for Thomas
Elisabeth buys for David
William buys for Stephen
Jesse buys for Elisabeth

Please post your "wish list", if you have one, so that your gifter has some ideas of what you would like. So, speaking of a wish list, here's mine:
a Belgium waffle iron
an outdoor thermometer
a GPS--one that speaks to me (preferably in a British accent)
but one without all the complicated bells and whistles
I just want to know how to get there (by avoiding unnecessary traffic and
delays)

You're Welcome...

The Beatles!

here

Midichlorians, 1

Could Darth Vader tell the midichlorians to choke him (Darth Vader) and would they stop once he lost consciousness, or what?

To find the answer and to read about my life these past three years that I've been missing, head over to my new blog, here.

I love you all.

Fleet

For those of you who don't already know, the Fleet Foxes are the best. So, even if you did already know, check out this video (on their official site) and see if you recognize anything? Fleet Foxes Tour Documentary

We have been hearing, or some of us have, that the Foxes are coming out with a new album soon. Unfortunately I have not seen anything about it or heard anything from it yet... makes me think we won't be getting it before Christmas. I just found an article (from this month) quoting Robin as saying that they are "no where near" being done. Oh well, I'm sure it will be worth waiting for.

Paper 'Star Wars'