Endeavour made its final journey last weekend, traveling 12-miles from Los Angeles International Airport, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park.
Watch the terrific time-lapse video.
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Safety is our first dinner priority
She brought the helmet down and asked ever so sweetly if she could wear it at dinner. I didn’t see the harm.
Remember Lite-Brite?
Unexpected Good Toy #1: Bilibo
At nearly $30 for a hunk of plastic, the Bilibo seemed like a bad idea. I mean, come on, it’s just a big plastic bowl with a couple of holes in it.
But the huge number of positive comments on Amazon stuck with me. Things like this:
It’s best use is not as a single self-contained, self explainatory activity (the simple rocking, balancing, or spinning never lasts long around here), but as an accessory to any number of activities and imaginative games. In addition to being the means to some serious dizziness, ours has been a tunnel, a sled, a cave, a chariot, a stool, a mountain, a cradle, and so much more.
And this:
4 years later – these have stood the test of time. They are not only still in perfect condition, the kids still enjoy playing with them now at ages 6 and 8.
And this:
I read all the reviews and thought there was no way a child would actually play with this. Well, I was wrong. They were purchased for my 9 year old, 15 month old, and my 5 year old niece and every one of them has had a blast playing with them.
At some point, as I probably do too often, I decided “what the hell” and placed my order.
This was not one of those toys where the kids are excited and sit down to immediately play with it for 3 hours straight (subsequently never playing again). No, this is a longer-term toy. It gets consistent use in many different ways. That’s what’s great about it–it’s a toy that greatly fosters imagination.
Some examples of use at our house:
Even our baby gets a lot of use out of it. We put toys in it as a bowl and she enjoys the challenge of scooping them out as it rocks around.
Recommended.
Family 8mm Films From the 1960’s
These videos were transferred from 8mm reels my mom gave me a few years ago. They’ve been digitized for a while, but I just had reason to reference them and figured somebody else out there might find them interesting. The captions are what my mom wrote for each video.
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Relics In The Basement
A couple guys I went to elementary school and college with are in town for a few days. These are the guys who I spent a lot of time with in a basement playing D&D instead of being a normal kid. Today we hung out together and ended up back at the same house (his parents still live there) where we spent most of our basement time.
There have not been a lot of changes made to this basement. The same couches that were there 30 years ago when we played D&D are still there. It’s really kind of fun to look around and see all the old stuff still sitting around. I knew this to be the case as we were headed down to the basement and I jokingly asked if his old TRS-80 Color Computer was still down there.
It was.
It’s there in the exact same spot from 30 years ago. It was not actually plugged in to the ancient tube TV sitting next to it or I would have turned it on. This is from the days when you got a really terrific, thick book with the computer about how to program it to do things. Many of us learned how to program with these TRS-80 Basic books.
For kicks, I opened the drawer under the computer. Of course, there were all the floppies and tapes that went along with it.
The more I think about it, the more I want to go back and see how much still works.