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Crafty Tuesday Puppet Positive

| February 9, 2016

Ronnie Burkett is an amazing puppeteer. His shows are breathtaking to watch. He also is a fount of knowledge about marionettes and the history of puppetry. On his Facebook page he has a request I seem to have a lot of friends on here who are puppeteers, puppet enthusiasts, puppetry hobbyists or puppet smartypants-know-it-all-academics. So […]

恭禧發財 for the year of the Fire Monkey

| February 8, 2016

It is also Jules Verne’s Birthday so Happy Birthday to the author of the future. Yesterday we had some friends over for the Super Bowl and it was fun. The game was interesting. The commercials were OK. Standouts for me were Hulk/Ant Man and Coke, Helen Mirren and not driving drunk, and the Snickers spot […]

What is it with the chicken wings?

| February 7, 2016

When did Buffalo Wings become the staple food of the Super Bowl? Did I miss a memo? And yes I did hear about the conspiracy to sell chicken wings because they were just scraps until this phenomenon. I have had Buffalo Wings in Buffalo at several establishments that claim to have done it first. Some […]

Caroline and Robots

| February 6, 2016

For the past twelve weeks Caroline has been part of a team that participated in a local FLL (First Lego League) tournament. She and the other girls have been working hard at learning all kinds of things including programing the robot and building solutions to various problems and tasks to get ready for the challenges […]

I blame ACD

| February 5, 2016

I remember reading in A Scandal in Bohemia the line “You see, but you do not observe.” Holmes goes on to ask Watson how many steps are there between the hallway and their rooms. In my head I said 14 depending on how you count them in our house. Watson hadn’t a clue. He had […]