REI Kingdom 6 Family Camping Tent

Dad Gear: REI Kingdom 6 Tent

Winter is over, summer is here. So it is decreed by the gizzard stone. Put on the shorts and shiver through the last few cold morning and evenings like a man. And while you’re waiting for the summer camping season to really kick in, like most dads you’re probably surfing the web for sweet new ...

How to Make a Solar Eclipse Viewer

Great little video tutorial for making a pin-hole solar ecliplse viewer for the eclipse on Sunday. Read more at the link below. How to Make a Solar Eclipse Viewer | How to Build a Pinhole Camera | LifesLittleMysteries.com. Do you live in the path of the eclipse? Yep. Just before 630 on Sunday in certain [...]

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Big Agnes Little Red 15 kids Sleeping bag

Dad Gear: Big Agnes Little Red 15 Sleeping Bag

Our son is entering his third camping season this summer and his first with his own sleeping bag. Now that he’s 2 he’s wwwaaaaayyyy to be to share a bag with one of us, and too active at night to be stuffed under a pile of blankets. So we went down to REI to pick [...]

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Delta-Doped Charged Coupled Devices

How Digital Cameras Work

I’ve been into photography for a while. When I started it was stealing dad’s camera and getting yelled at not to take a photo cause each snap cost money. Film was expensive to buy, develop and print. When I was in high school and college I was into black and white photography and printing. Rolling [...]

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Michael Moschen

Amazing Juggler: Michael Moschen

My dad is a juggler of sorts. He can juggle 3 balls and toss one behind his back. A few years ago he picked up juggling bowling pins. And then this year he got into throwing knives. He taught me to juggle and sometimes I juggle for my son to keep him entertained in the [...]

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I eat my peas with honey

I eat my peas with honey

The strange thing is that my son loves peas. He prefers them cold and eats them with his fingers. I did not love peas and my parents had some tricks to get me to eat them. My dad’s was to tell me that if i didn’t eat them, caterpillars would crawl between my toes. I [...]

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Juggling tables with your feet

Some things seem like they would be impossible to accomplish, but turns out you can actually juggle tables with your feet. Here’s The Baronton Sisters on The Ed Sullivan Show from February 2, 1969. Foot jugglers The Baronton Sisters from France perform on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 2, 1969. Available on the DVD [...]

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Detour, a Friday baseball video

A short film about impatience, and willingness to turn around and go a different direction.   -mike  

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REI Kingdom 6 Family Camping Tent

Dad Gear: REI Kingdom 6 Tent

Winter is over, summer is here. So it is decreed by the gizzard stone. Put on the shorts and shiver through the last few cold morning and evenings like a man. And while you’re waiting for the summer camping season to really kick in, like most dads you’re probably surfing the web for sweet new [...]

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Family bike ride on the black rock desert

Cool Places: Black Rock Desert, Nevada

We rode into the wind. It was just chilly enough that I put my son in a sweater, but my wife and I pedaled our bikes in shirt sleeves. His helmeted head bobbled above the cracked mud and kept bumping me in the back as he repeatedly kicked my legs in excitement. We rode for [...]

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Aqua Satellite Images of Earth

Wired posted their favorite Images from NASA’s Aqua Satellite today. The Aqua satellite circles Earth taking photos that study water, water vapor and the interaction of water and land and humans. My favorites are the ones that show volcanic eruption clouds of ash and smoke! One of the stars of NASA’s fleet of satellites is Aqua. The [...]

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