I think this guy’s work as shown at The Little People Project is very cool.
An example:
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A Creative Birthday Present
Backstory 1: I became a big fan of Galavant this year, a show you may never have heard of. It’s a very non-serious show about knights and kings and princesses and such, and they often break out in song. It was right up my alley, and I loved the music. I even bought the soundtrack. I’m very much hoping it earned a second season.
Backstory 2: Calvin finally settled on an initial direction for his upcoming college career. He’s going to KU’s film school and, at the moment, is thinking he wants to be a film editor. Since deciding this, he’s spent a lot of time fiddling with making videos, and keeps getting better at it.
Terry and I went out to dinner and some shopping Saturday night while Calvin stayed at home with the kids. This video is what they secretly did while we were gone (and several hours more Calvin put in on his computer in his room), which they presented to me for my birthday on Sunday.
I THINK IT IS TOTALLY AWESOME.
Click here or watch the embedded video below.
Why Is Religion Involved?
All of the “Religious Freedom” acts are using the wrong qualifier. They should be “Business Freedom” acts. Why is religion a part of it at all? What if I run a business and have a real dislike of people who wear pants with holes in them? Should I be required to serve them? Let’s take religion and homosexuality out of this discussion.
It should be: How much freedom of choice is a business person allowed to exercise while operating his or her business?
I can see where people would argue that all people must be served equally. I can also see where people would argue that the business operator should not be forced into doing business where they don’t want to. The discussion should be around this and what the limits should be in general.
The Younger Me Chronicles
Back when The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was on TV I was quite a fan. I enjoyed the high production quality and the interesting historical tie-ins, and was very disappointed when it went off the air.
In those days we didn’t have Google for instant answers to any question we could think of, but somehow I found the address of someone involved with the show and sent them a letter (yes, an actual paper letter through the US Postal service) asking something about a future video release on VHS tape. I must have had a lot of time on my hands back then. I don’t have any memory of searching for the address or writing the letter or if I even had any expectations of a reply.
But I got one.
Adrienne Biggs (now at Biggs Publicity, thank you Google), the “Special Projects Assistant”, must have been the unlucky person my letter was dumped on. She was kind enough to respond with a nice letter and include The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Study Guide, pictured below. It has survived many purgings of stuff over the years and still sits on my shelf today.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was finally released on VHS, but it was out of my price range at the time. There was also quite a bit of editing and repackaging of the shows into episodes that are more like movies, to the point where it was renamed The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones. I’m not thrilled with that (we lost old Indy, the narrator), but I’ll take what I can get. Today you can find it relatively cheap on DVD. Maybe I should again write to someone involved with it asking when the Blu-ray will be released…
This Is As Mimimal As It Gets
When it comes to cases for my iPhone I’ve always been a minimalist. I do fear dropping the dang thing since I use it so much, but i like how thin my phone is and don’t want to destroy that with a case.
When I got my iPhone 4S, Apple was selling its line of bumpers and I was quite happy with that. A bumper is just enough to protect the corners in a fall, and it worked great. (I know from experience.). For my iPhone 5S I got a cheaper third-party case, but it was still basically a bumper.
Now I’ve moved up (literally) to an iPhone 6+. It’s decidedly bigger, much bigger, but I have come to love having such a big screen. So much so that I find I’m using my iPad Air much less. The downside is that it feels much less secure in my somewhat dainty man-paws. This thing is begging to be dropped.
Before I began the hunt for another bumper-like case, I serendipitously discovered Bumpies. Here’s what they look like in blue (I chose gray):
Yeah, that’s a weird picture of the “case” because there’s not much to it. They essentially took a standard bumper and stripped off all the superfluous material. That was exactly the case I’d been looking for without knowing it. They come in a variety of colors, including mixing different colors, but I chose grey to match my phone and because I really like grey.
I worried they’d come off when I pull my phone out of my pocket, but reading lots of Amazon reviews convinced me it probably wasn’t a problem; there’s a bevel to the edges that helps prevent that. I worried they’d mar my phone in some way if I took them off, but again my research showed it wasn’t so. (The science of glue is sophisticated these days.) I decided to take the plunge and give them a try.
After a couple of weeks of living in fear of dropping my phone, my Bumpies finally arrived. The packaging is nicely innovative:
Opening the packaging reveals the instructions:
Quite simple. The box the Bumpies come in doubles as an alignment guide.
It took less than 5 minutes and now I’m all Bumpied up. The Bumpies feel solidly attached. There’s just enough “lip” on the sides of each Bumpy that I can safely lay down (or drop!) my phone and the screen or back won’t be touched. They extend around the sides of the phone enough that all the sides are similarly protected. My phone still feels like my phone and not a case with something in it.
It’ll take time to tell how the Bumpies will wear with use, but for now I’m very happy with them. Recommended.
Where Does It All Come From?
This is pretty much exactly what it’s like having a 6-month-old: