Now, this is creative

A wall fell down, this guy did the appropriate thing.

Who knew?? Cornstarch!?

If I was home during the day, I'd watch Ellen!

Fly, Kaitlyn, FLYYYYYYYYY

Fly, Kaitlyn, FLYYYYYYYYY, originally uploaded by -SPK.

Look at that form, look at that height!

Caption This

Yummy juice boxes, originally uploaded by -SPK.

Lets see who can come up with a good caption for this photo of me and Andrew "the artist" Kish III.

Lifehacker Lawn Tip: Don't bag or rake your grass clippings, BLOW THEM AWAY!

I made this little video for one of my favorite sites, Lifehacker.com. They have a flickr pool of user contributions hoping that their tip makes it to the site. Cross your fingers for me!

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I see my neighbors either bagging or raking their grass clippings. Bagging is a lot of work (especially when the lawn is high) and raking just plan stinks.

I learned this tip when I was a landscaper (read: lawn cutter) for a summer. It works great, makes for a healthier lawn, and is easier than bagging or raking.

People always want to know if I blow them off of the lawn, and if so where do they go? They aren't blown off of the lawn, rather they are spread evenly so that you just don't see them, really!

I love me some NASCAR

I love me some NASCAR, originally uploaded by -SPK.

This is Jamie McMurray's show car that was on display in downtown Bethlehem a week ago.

It was really cool to see the COT in person and get a get a good look at the splitter in the front.

Isn't she perty? (Becky, I mean)

A little warm

A little warm, originally uploaded by -SPK.

97 degrees and 30 MPG

Kazoo playing like you’ve never seen before, trust me

via bits & pieces

Anything wrong with this picture?

Anything wrong with this picture?, originally uploaded by -SPK.

it's 7:56 AM and 76 degrees F already?!

It's going to be 98 today and 99 tomorrow. Oh boy.

Bulova Watch Lost at Sea During WW2 Reunited with Owner After 67 Years, Stil...

 

 

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Bulova Watch Lost at Sea During WW2 Reunited with Owner After 67 Years, Still Ticking [Watch]

via Gizmodo by AddyDugdale on 6/9/08

A Royal Navy veteran has been reunited with his watch, 67 years after he lost it during World War II—and, it worked perfectly. In 1941, Teddy Bacon, a lieutenant aboard HMS Repulse, was throwing a line from ship to shore when the gold Bulova watch, bought in the Azores for $55, slipped off his wrist and into Gibraltar Harbor. The timepiece was never found, until the harbor was dredged, seven decades later.

After seeing his watch splosh into the water, Teddy sent down a couple of divers to search for it, but without any luck. So, he informed the deputy harbor-master who logged the missing object. Fast-forward to 2007, and the watch turned up during the dredging of the harbor. When the authorities checked the log, they found Teddy's claim, and sent the watch, still ticking, off to him. Now 90 years old, the reitred sailor couldn't believe his eyes when a package containing his gold watch arrived at his new home.

'To say I was stunned could be considered a major understatement,' he said. "It truly was a miracle that I had been reunited with that watch after a lifetime. Now I wear it every day and it keeps perfect time, even after all those years in the water. It is absolutely excellent and I consider it a long-lost friend.'" [Daily Mail]

 

 

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Sisters

This is one of the best shots of them ever.

We have a Ray Gun?!

It's about damn time!

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/03/primary.wrap.int/index.html

I swear, I just overheard this in a deli....

"I am so fumigating over this!"

And she was dead serious, better yet - the person she was talking with was nodding her head in agreement.

The true measure of how a man is how...

The true measure of how a man is how..., originally uploaded by -SPK.

...he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

-Samuel Johnson

Exxon-Mobile: I hate you

"Daggle, who has been an Exxon dealer for two decades after working his way up from pumping gas, said he has done well. But he still cannot fathom how the oil company can charge him different wholesale gasoline prices for each of the five Northern Virginia stations he owns. The stations all sell the same Exxon-branded gasoline, delivered from the same terminal in Newington, where it arrives via the same pipeline. Sometimes, Daggle said, it's even dropped off by the same truck and driver hours apart on the same day.

The only thing that's different is the price, which can vary by 35 cents per gallon, Daggle said. "If I could have driven a truck to Gainesville and drive the gas from there to Shirlington, I could have made 50 cents a gallon."

Complete and disgusting story of greed here.

Calculator with a virtual tape!

If there's one thing I love it's FREE stuff that just works.

Here is a free calculator from Moffsoft better than your windows calculator and probably better than the RadioShack 1067a in your desk drawer. Why? It has a virtual running tape on it.

I can't tell you how many times I have added, then re-added figures. No more, Joe, no more!

Double Rainbow

Living in PA, it's pretty uncommon to see a real live rainbow - let alone a double. While on the way to the Cole Brother's Circus in Tannersville, Becky noticed this scene appearing from the storm clouds.

It was sunny in the west and the storm moved quickly to the east and produced this brilliant sight! We were lucky to see it.

Early adapter series: PhoneTag

The techies of the world have a word for people like me: Early Adapter. While I wasn't the first to use the wheel or the cotton gin, I am generally the first (among people I know in real life) to adapt to a new technology.

A few examples are: This blog (been here since May 2004 with 800+ posts), using a Treo, GMail, LogMeIn, Jott, Picasa, Google Reader. To most of the tech world, these are not earth shatteringly wild advances, rather the way of the geek: adopt early, adopt often.

Today, I'd like to share with you a new service I've been using daily for about 2 months and am really enjoying: PhoneTag™.

Here's a video of it in action:



I get a decent amount of voice mail probably because I was in a meeting with a client or co-worker or just in a place that I couldn't talk. When I check the email on my Treo, all of the voice mails left for me are waiting there and were transcribed (well mostly "Gown a melt?") into text with the audio attached so I can listen to it, read it or both. The same message is also stored on my Outlook, GMail, and on the PhoneTag™ website. (If you don't have a Treo/Blackberry type phone, PhoneTag™ can SMS those transcriptions to you instead)

Did you notice it read: PhoneTag from Becky Kaine in the video? I can upload my contacts to the site and when one of them leaves me a message, the email notifying me of their message will come from THEM so I can just reply to the message like it was an email. Cool, huh?

Have you ever archived a voice mail that needed action only to listen to it 2 weeks later and scream: SHIIIIIIT!? OK, just me then. Well, because a copy of the message goes to my inbox, it remains there as a reminder to act on the task.

The price plans are pretty reasonable, and since I love the service I'm more than happy to shell out the $9.95 a month (plus .25 each additional message beyond 40 a month).

Oh, if you decide to sign up - you'll get a week for free to try it and I'll get a month for free! Thanks in advance :0-)

Let me know what you think in the comments, I love what you have to say, well.... type.

Cole Brothers Circus @ Camelback Mountain

To see all the circus fun, go here.