Joshua on July 27th, 2009

If you know me, you know that we take a lot of pictures.  You’ll also likely have heard me say something along the lines of “There will be a whole generation of kids who grows up and as adults have no photos of themselves when they were young.”  Or something like “There are only two [...]

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Joshua on July 23rd, 2009

Well, I finally did it.  I’ve been thinking about it since I first read about the service in 2006, but I finally did it.  I gathered up all our film negatives, 35mm, 110, 127, 135, even a roll of APS and sent them all to ScanCafe.com.  They will then scan our negatives, color correct, descratch, [...]

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Joshua on July 11th, 2009

Wesley checked out a new DVD from the library last week: Smithsonian Networks Kids! Critter Quest.  In one of the episodes of this nature show for kids, the host builds a small deadfall trap in his backyard to catch nocturnal insects.  In the show they catch 3 beetles and then held beetle races.  Wesley thought [...]

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Joshua on May 6th, 2009

I made my first pop bottle launcher maybe 12 or 13 years ago with my dad.  I used it to launch hundreds of 2-liter bottles with kids from Best SELF, Together For Youth, ARIS and of course just for the fun of it.  As far as I know the original launcher is still in my [...]

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