Dec 302010
 

Before this post, 9 out of my 10 previous blog posts were mainly embedded video clips.  Of that 90%, 7 of 9 were our home videos shot with our Flip camera.  I just thought that was an interesting trend.  Am I just using the Flip camera more during the holiday season, or do I just [...]

Dec 262010
 

This morning we woke up to a few inches of snow on the ground.  Because birds couldn’t find food on the ground there were a crowd of birds surrounding our backyard bird feeder.  But I saw that there was only about an inch of seed left in the feeder so it wouldn’t last very long [...]

Dec 262010
 

Snow began falling around dinner-time last night, supposedly making it the first White Christmas in Charlotte, NC since 1947.  Most news outlets were reporting 1947 but WBT-AM was reporting that the last White Christmas in Charlotte was in 1989.  So which is it?  Or more importantly, since there are official records, why is there any [...]

Dec 202010
 

This “holiday” video from Klick is a lipdub montage of the most well-known internet memes of all time.  They’re having a contest where whomever can name the most internet memes seen in the video will win an iPad.  I was surprised that I already knew more than half of the references.  But since I expect [...]

Dec 022010
 

It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post.  Part of the lapse is because I had family visiting from out of town for up to ten days.  As usual my whole family traveled to Charlotte for Thanksgiving.  This year Amy brought her boyfriend Steve too.  After the Thanksgiving weekend my mom stayed a [...]