Please excuse such a miscellaneous post
Published on April 24, 2005 By Jamie Burnside In Home & Family

Hi there.  It is a Sunday.  My wife is watching a Japanese DVD, my son is playing with plastic animals, and I am listening to the "Sunday Morning Sports Huddle" while playing on the computer.

One of the things that I have been playing with this morning is Microsoft Terraserver.  At that website, you can type in an address (in the US), and then you can get an aerial photograph of that place.  I looked at an aerial photo of my neighborhood from 1991.  The area certainly has changed (as well as my house.)

At my own house, there wasn't a garage.  Also most of my neighbors' houses weren't there, just fields and farms.  There were also fewer stores, but more factories in my town.  It is surprising how big the changes can be in fifteen years.  Try your own neighborhood!

Yesterday we stopped by our friend Chialing's house to see her baby (her husband is out of town.)  Baby Madeline is so cute!

Recently we bought some videos and DVDs of some claymation animation.  The videos are about a penguin named "Pingu".  (I think it is a Danish program.)  As soon as the show comes on the television, baby Kenny gets so excited.

He laughs, screams, and claps when the theme song hits.

He is showing me the television.

That's all for today.  Please excuse the randomness of this post.

 


Comments
on Apr 24, 2005
I LOVE Pingu! and now that that's out... I'm retreating into dork world.
on Apr 24, 2005

My wife and I found a Pingu video for the first time (in America) at a Wal-Mart.  It was in the bargain bin.  We were really happy to find it because we used to watch it on video when we lived in Japan.  We knew that our baby would like to see Pingu.

I wonder why Pingu never really caught on in America.  Maybe Americans like their cartoon characters to speak.  (Remember when there was an incarnation of the Pink Panther that spoke?  Yuck!)

on Apr 24, 2005
One of the things that I have been playing with this morning is Microsoft Terraserver. At that website, you can type in an address (in the US), and then you can get an aerial photograph of that place. I looked at an aerial photo of my neighborhood from 1991. The area certainly has changed (as well as my house.)


I love that website. I've been a regular visitor of the site since 2002. Even better than the aerial photos are the "Urban Areas" which feature full color and even higher resolutions. I was just looking at the neighborhood in which I grew up. It's amazing how dense it looks from high above.
on Apr 24, 2005
Those photos of Kenny are great! I am going to have to check out that site! Pretty neat!