This is a cardboard violin, which is what the kids use to learn to hold a real violin. You gradually add rice inside it until it’s the equivalent weight of the real thing. That way there is less breakage from drops when the real violin is introduced.
Neil certainly has the serious look down pat.
Back in May, Neil and I visited the Kansas City LEGOLand Discovery Center at Crown Center. It’s not a big place and was disproportionately expensive, but Neil had a great time for the half-day we were there.
Click on the picture below to view the gallery. I took all the pictures with my iPhone so they’re not overly spectacular, but they’ll give you a taste of the place.
My little girl was being particularly cooperative enjoying her new hat. I whipped out my iPhone and took several insurance shots, then realized this would be a prolonged photo opportunity. I’m trying to use my “good” camera (digital DSLR) more, so I grabbed it and had some fun.
I was lucky enough to be able to attend Apple’s World-Wide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco this year. This is a short video of a multi-iPad setup they had prominently displayed. Pretty cool.
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We did a massive reorganization of our “office” this weekend. This meant throwing out and recycling many bags of junk, moving around everything in the rather large room including some huge bookcases full of comics, and buying and assembling two huge shelving units from Costco. But the biggest job for me was completely unplugging every piece of electronic equipment, moving all of it, and plugging it back in. This was a mighty effort, as can be gleaned from this picture. That pile of cables is what I ended up not reusing after reassembly.
