Yesterday Brooke and I went with our friends for a Daddy Daughter activity. We took our girls up to the Hill Air Force Base Museum.
Emma, Ava, and Brooke all got to sit together on the same row in the van. Brooke seemed to enjoy it but she wasn’t entirely sure about it. When we were leaving, Brooke was crying for her mom. Watching Wall-e on the DVD player calmed her right down and kept the girls occupied for the trip to the museum.
This was my favorite plane as a kid. It is still really cool. We even had the G.I. Joe Blackbird.
Brooke solutes all our airmen who are risking their lives to protect our country.
On the way home Emma and Ava fell right to sleep but Brooke was wide awake for the entire trip home.
Last week I found myself in Las Vegas for a couple of days to attend a convention called NAB (National Association of Broadcasters). This is the convention for broadcasters all over the world. I can’t believe how big this was. It was held in the Las Vegas Convention Center and I looked online and found out that the convention center has 3.2 million square feet for the convention floor. It’s a little over two miles to walk around the perimeter.
There were a lot of cool things that only a geek like me would appreciate so I’ll skip going into details. I talked to a lot of cool people and learned a lot of interesting stuff, some useful for me and some not so much.
I had to take a picture of the Panasonic area because I use a Panasonic video camera. They had a large section about 3d for home consumers. I read somewhere that they are hoping to having 3d home movies coming out by 2010 using Blu-Ray DVDs. There were quite a few booths that were demoing 3d camera systems.
This is a shot looking over one of the floors. Huge!
There were people giving speeches about the technology. I found it funny that most of the speakers were attractive model-like women. I wonder how much of what they were talking about they actually understood.
This you might find interesting. I certainly did. This is the technology they used with Cooper Anderson during the 2009 election. A person stands in the green screen area. This was located in a remote location. The little black boxes attached to the horizontal bar are cameras. On the other side, Cooper Anderson stood on the CNN set like the one pictured on the lower picture and talked to a blue wall. Through the power of camera location tracking and computers they were able to make it look like Cooper Anderson was talking to a hologram. You can see the result on the monitor located on the top of the picture.
The greatest fun were in big booths where they were giving seminars on how to do things with the software. I sat in on every one I came across and learned some pretty cool things.
I even ran into a celebrity of sorts. I watch a podcast about Final Cut Studio and the guy on the right is one of the hosts of the show. He and I talked for about half an hour and I watched them film an episode of the podcast. Nice guys.
With tuppence for paper and strings
You can have your own set of wings
With your feet on the ground
You’re a bird in a flight
With your fist holding tight
To the string of your kite
Oh, oh, oh!
Let’s go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let’s go fly a kite!
When you send it flyin’ up there
All at once you’re lighter than air
You can dance on the breeze
Over ‘ouses and trees
With your first ‘olding tight
To the string of your kite
Oh, oh, oh!
Let’s go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Let’s go fly a kite!
We had a great time flying our kite. Brooke loves it. Really this post is just for the pictures. My daughter is just so adorable!
Yesterday we attended Brooke’s first Easter egg hunt.
It’s a good thing that I gave Brooke some practice getting eggs while we were up at Grandma and Grandpa’s house last weekend because the eggs went fast. We were one of the few parents who actually allowed our child to pick up the eggs. The rest of the parents were flying around picking up all the eggs for their children and, as a result, Brooke didn’t get many eggs.
Brooke wasn’t very happy when Mom went to participate in the women’s egg hunt. She just wanted Mom! If you know how loud Brooke can be when she is crying, you can imagine how far and wide her voice carried!
Here’s Rebecca racing against all the other women. I was part of the men’s egg hunt but in the initial start I ran into a guy who was standing in front of me but didn’t take part in the race. As a result there was no chance for me to catch up with the sweeping mob.
Brooke actually enjoyed the Easter Bunny. I was thinking that she would be absolutely terrified by him.
If you are thinking about getting your Christmas shopping done early, I’ve found what I’m wanting. They are probably in high demand and therefore on back order.
