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As Mal’s dad, I see my primary role as one to mess with her. In doing so we’re finding some of the genetic easter eggs, so to speak. In this case, what I think of as the Makulec eyes (reference any picture of Mom where her eyes aren’t at half mast, or Dan at a young age). Watch for when the lights get turned off:

I don’t usually post too much of this kind of stuff, but this really made me laugh out loud.

Sometimes I see photos we take and they just need a little tweaking in photoshop.

And we had the screen closed. Guess who got a bath tonight…

Don’t have much to share from our trip up North – I spent a lot of time working. Which you can see some of the results of that here. But here are a couple photos from the 1.5 days of vacation we got. We did enjoy some good Ethiopian and Afghan food as well.

Note to self, keep the cats away!

Hadn’t heard of Rick Mercer until just now, but he does a pretty well-produced and entertaining show, it looks like. Two excerpts:

Lately Celli seems to have a thing for climbing on people’s backs. Go figure.

Once we young model-rocket builders hit a certain level, we no longer spoke of the Estes ‘engines’ but rather purchased ‘motors’ from a company called Aerotech. I remember drooling over the motors that required special permits to travel via ground (no air travel allowed!) because they were so explosive. I say all this to share with you this video, of an interview with a guy who recently launched his iPhone in a model rocket. It’s really not all that interesting – it is rather geeky – but fast forward to 1:17 in the interview to see video of his first attempt.

iPhone Rocket Launch and Interview (from MobileOrchard.com) from Mobile Orchard on Vimeo.

If you cracked up as hard as I did, and watched several times, well, we’re probably brothers! But I hope you all enjoy-