Awesome News: Peter Jackson to direct two Hobbit movies

I missed this press release amongst celebrating two birthdays and Christmas. On 12/18, a press release confirmed that Peter Jackson (director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies) has settled all his lawsuits against New Line (the studio he worked for on LotR) and will be directing not one, but two movies [...]

Absolutely Ludicrous

So quite a while back, I decided that I would stop with the ranting and whining that seems to make up the content of many a blog. There’s too much negativity in the world already. I don’t need to add to it. Do things bother me? Some things do, but it’s [...]

LaserQuest Champion

The LaserQuest birthday party was today. It was awesome! It was even cooler than I expected it would be because the group of players included unknowns (teenagers off the street) to add to the challenge as well as two of my adult friends who stayed and played. So the kids were gunning [...]

What’s Wrong with this Picture? (or Does My Son Really Have Better Taste Than Me?)

So I had some music on this morning while checking email. I paused the music to answer the phone and I could hear that my 7-year-old son was listening to music pretty loud up in his room. He was listening to “The Seeker” by The Who. What was I listening to at [...]

The Bible according to Google Earth

This is cool. An art project that takes four key scenes from the Bible and imagines them as if we were looking at them using satellite photos (or Google Earth). Pretty amazing. Check it out here.

‘Tis the season

Here we are in the Christmas season. The decorations are up. The music is playing on the stereo. Snow is falling. There’s a fire in the fireplace. And mom is cooking up yummy treats. Perfect.
Warmest wishes to you.

Time for a riddle

So the other night at dinner the two oldest kids started asking each riddles that they’d learned at school. So I tried one to see whether or not they’d heard it before. It was the ol’ classic “What’s black and white and re(a)d all over?” The answer, of course, is “a newspaper”. [...]