Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades

As many of you know, we just got a new Mac. Mac come with many awesome and fun programs, and we’ve been playing with them. We made a short video of our hosue at Christmas using iMovie. It was extremely easy to create. So here is our video. Hope you enjoy it!

I was just doing some browsing around and came around something Jessica and I did a while ago and thought I’d share. It’s at a site called “Continue This Story!” by designer Hal Gatewood.

The site lets you start writing a story and then pass it off to someone else to continue it (hence the name). You send them a code that they enter in at the site, and it lets them continue it. They can then send a code back to you or to somebody else, and well, you get the idea.

Anyway, Jessica and I wrote a story there a couple years ago, and I still laugh a little when I read it. Click.

Ok, so we got a new iMac. Hooray for us! Now what do I do? Start tinkering of course. I’d read a lot about VMWare Fusion (virtualization software for running virtual computers inside a running OS), so I installed it and started my 30-day evaluation, and one of the first things I wanted to do in it was install uTorrent (my favorite torrent client) because I was sick of Tomato Torrent (a Mac client) not responding to the trackers, and I didn’t want to have to reboot into XP everytime I wanted to start a download.

Anyway…after installing uTorrent in the virtual machine (XP), it occurred to me that I was going to have problems with port forwarding. I didn’t know how Fusion handled port forwarding and networking in general between my host machine (the iMac) and the virtual machine. Read on for the walkthrough of my solution…

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I was at dinner with my wife and her Grandma tonight, and something was said that made me realize that these days and those to come are much different than the ones I grew up in. For example, if you needed to discuss something with someone across town, you used to pick up the telephone and have an actual conversation (gasp!). Now, the phones grow dusty as our fingers peck away our conversations through email, IM, and blogging.

It seems logical that as technology entrenches itself in our personal lives more and more, we should grow further and further apart. Reading text in the same font and in the same little boxes regardless of who sends them should eventually overcome the experience of hearing a human voice, right?

Well, one thing is the same yesterday, today, and forever: Logic does not always prevail. (more…)

Well, I stopped my whole digital scrapbook craze right after the family reunion. Mostly because my free trial ran out. Adam and I found a program that we had purchase a while ago that we updated and works pretty well. I’m using Fireworks right now, and I like it pretty well.

Adam has shown me so cool things that I didn’t know I could do with it. While I’m good at figuring stuff out, he’s better. So I’ve added a couple new pictures to our Library in Random Scrapbook pages and in our Cruise Scrapbook.

I’ve felt this really creative surge. I just want to make all kinds of things. I got crafty last fall too. I don’t know what it is about the start of the school year, but I just get the craft bug, and it goes until something kills it. Last year it was a bout of the pumpkins. Last year, my mom and I designed this pumpkin wall hanging for a class this girl from church and I were teaching. After I did all this work for them, only one person came to my class, and everyone else went to hers. I was a little bit turned off after that.

This year, I am hoping it is going to be different. My mom and I are going to be working on the projects together, and not really involving other people. So it should last a little bit longer.