Monday, June 29, 2009

dinner after gardening...


After a long weekend of work, we had a nice dinner that just started to incorporate some of our harvest. The fingerling potatoes (and the sweet corn, just charring a little more on the grill) were from the farmer's market. We didn't grow the burgers, or the tomatoes, grilled vidalias, or pepperoncini on top, but they were yummy! We did top them with some of our baby salad greens, and then we made tempura of the tiny new zucchini we were harvesting in order to get the plants to produce more and the zucchini blossoms. Very yummy! We've also been nibbling snap peas and we'll eat our first green beans tonight.
Very excited for tomatoes...the plants are really starting to fill up with tiny green tomatoes!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fixed...

Just a little edit needed...

~Ian





two new albums- baby pics and garden pics

http://picasaweb.google.com/aloradanen/SummerBabyPics?feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/aloradanen/JuneGarden?feat=directlink

Just noticing how much bigger the garden is already, since these were taken a few weeks ago. Must try to get new pics before we come home... Evangeline, still about the same size!

Sunday, June 21, 2009

HDR Photography

Was just talking with Dad on the phone about this. Here's the link to some info on HDR photography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

Friday, June 19, 2009

Duels of the Planeswalkers

Of mild interest to the board / card game geeks in the family, Wizards of the Coast just released a pretty nice looking computer version of Magic the Gathering on Xbox live.

From what I read it's not trying to be a fully featured version of Magic (I think they have a PC version for this?) as you work with just 8 premade decks which you can customize with a series of unlockable cards. But the gameplay was straight up Magic and I was actually pretty impressed with the production values when I tried the demo out. Kinda neat that they didn't just support 1:1 but also added in a co-op campaign and 4 player free-for-all play versions. Might actually pick it up myself as it's only $10.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

More Molly + Baby 2

Hey all, just throwing up some new pics and videos. Although you're going to be seeing her in person soon enough. Since you'll be seeing her so soon I figured that I'd throw in a quick Molly => English translation guide.

"All Done" => Sadly this doesn't actually mean that she is done with her food. If she says this she should be asked if she is actually "all done" or if she want "mo" (more). If she says "all done" a second time then meal time is over

"mo" => More

"jus" (juice) => All different fluids. E.g. "mo jus" => More milk needed "ches" (cheese) => All different edible solids

"Bye bye" => Important to know that this not only means "bye bye, have fun" but it also means "you go bye bye and leave me alone so that I can crawl into the fireplace"

"Na na nah naaaahhh" => Means "no way jose" pretty much. For example if you are letting her push the stroller at the mall for fun, and you try to touch to stroller to keep her from steering it into a wall you might get a very offended "na na nah naaaahh" until you take your hand off and let her drive

"da" => Means "yes." Also means that my daughter is an cold war era Bond villian apparently.

"e ah e ah e ah" => "E I E I O" from Old McDonald had a farm. The only song lyrics that she knows now, although I am working on the fast bits from "It's the end of the world as we know it"

"Ahhh oohhhh" => Used for both accidental (falling down while trying to run to fast) and intentional (dumping out a box of goldfish on the floor) incidents

"puf" (ruff) => The noise a doggie makes (used to apply to all four legged creatures, but is now getting more specific

"dank" => Our other animal noise. It's a combo of "quack" and "duck" and is used for most birds






Summer Time


Monday, June 8, 2009

Beatles: Rock Band intro

So I've been geeking out on E3 the last week (Uncharted 2 whoo!!!). But the neatest thing I saw that the non-gamer could appreciate would be the intro video for The Beatles: Rock Band. Gotta figure out who did the animation for this guy, very nifty looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xaUIYs8e0k

Monday, June 1, 2009

Evangeline goes outside...

Pictures of Evangeline in our yard, doing various baby type things like splashing in pools and, oh yeah, helping tear down trees!

trees and magic and pools, oh my....