Sharing a hat
Jul 7th, 2008 by jeremy
Sidney’s last game and Wyatt’s first movie
Jul 6th, 2008 by jeremy
Sidney had her last baseball game, it was completely different from the first. She was having a great time fielding and she hit four out of four at bats. She says she wants to play again next year, but after all the trauma, we may stick to swimming for a while.
Through the season she was constantly throwing Continue Reading »
6 a.m. in Park City
Jul 4th, 2008 by jeremy
Happy 4th to everyone.
Book Review: A People’s History of the American Empire
Jul 4th, 2008 by jeremy
This is book twenty-seven in 52 books in 52 weeks
First of all, I’m sorry for the quick review this week. We are leaving on vacation, and I had to write this two days early not knowing what kind of internet access we’d have. All the other posts from Wednesday to Friday were pre-written as well, so hopefully they aren’t full of mistakes.
Howard Zinn is the author of the excellent People’s History of the United States, and this is a graphical adaptation of much of the material in the book. It’s similar to the book Lies My Teacher Told Me, going through different events and talking about what most of us have been taught about history is usually full of factual errors.
He discusses the many events that have led the United States to go to war, how big business reacted when workers decided to form unions, and different cultural battles throughout time. Like many problems, almost everything seems to come down to money. While giving a mostly upbeat look at the United States, he doesn’t shy away from showing how we used things like the belief that God gave us this land as an excuse to kill native Americans, enslave blacks and put Japanese people into prison camps.
It’s simple to follow unlike some of his previous books that spend chapters on each area, the art is mediocre, but not a distraction. I was Continue Reading »
G-G-G-G-GO FOR G!
Jul 3rd, 2008 by jeremy
Wyatt singing one of his favorite They Might Be Giants songs, Go for G. Listen to their version (that’s almost as good) here on itunes.
Isaac channels Fred Astaire
Jul 3rd, 2008 by jeremy
Roberts Reunion 2008 part 2
Jul 1st, 2008 by jeremy
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- Seriously, So Blessed
- Paper concept versions of websites before they were created
- State workers in Utah will start working a four day work week to save on energy costs
- Another Constitutional Amendment has been introduced by Republicans to ban gay marriage. Two of the Senators sponsoring the bill are Senator Craig (who was caught soliciting sex from a man in a restroom) and Senator Vitter (who admitted to sex with prostitutes while he was married). And they’re worried about gays destroying marriage?
- A man walks across Michigan on stilts
- Food porn of the day, steak with soy ginger sauce
- Whatever the opposite of Food porn is, Thorax Cake
- Imaginary scenes in a 2090 flooded London
- The ten worst kissers in Hollywood
- The new classics, Entertainment Weekly counts down the top 100 books, movies, television and music of the last 25 years
Syracuse Days Fireworks
Jun 30th, 2008 by jeremy
Syracuse Days is the yearly celebration that for some reason takes place right before the 4th of July. We missed it this year to go to a family reunion, but at the last minute I decided to try and take some pictures of fireworks to see how they’d turn out.
I kept the aperture between 8 and 13, then set the camera to bulb mode. Then I just kept the shutter open until I thought I’d captured enough to fill the frame. It’s really hard Continue Reading »
Roberts Reunion 2008 part 1
Jun 29th, 2008 by jeremy
On Saturday we went down to Orem for the annual Roberts family party. The park down there is perfet because there is shade everywhere, and a great swiming pool. We ate a ton of food and swam until we were pink (especially Sid, her cheeks are the color of a stop sign).
A day of junk food for Wyatt. He usually had some cake, a cookie or a piece of candy in his mouth. When we left he waved bye-bye to everyone, then after a quick look left and right, took off to the M&M bag and grabbed a handful before Britnie could grab him.
Mmmmhhh, root beer floats. Better than pretty much any Continue Reading »