Stop-motion animation

What a fun experiement! I actually read about this in my kids "National Geographic Kids" magazine when the "Wallace & Grommit" movie came out last year. You use your digital camera to take multiple stills and then piece them together in iMovie to make a stop-motion animation. The way you used to draw the cartoons in the corner of a pad of paper and then flip through it. DIY click here.

Of course the kids had to add their little bit at the end. And they provided added vocals on the improvised soundtrack! :)

Changes at the ballpark

I have not been to the ballpark in probably over 2 years and I noticed some things while I was at the game last night. Besides the fact that the Cards lost in an impressive pitching performance by Jeff Francis...I noticed

• The men's room is labeled "Hombres" in addition to "Men". I'm not a strict "English-only" American, but does the men's room with it's universal "man" symbol really need to be bi-lingual?
• The men's room is equiped with syringe disposal. I presume for the growing American population suffering from diabetes and that will have to administer insulin at the ballgame.

So we are left with the anecdotal facts that there are more Spanish-speaking, and diabetic Americans...at least at the ballpark.

Roots of our human family tree are remarkably shallow

Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc.: "Roots of our human family tree are remarkably shallow"

Interesting article on how we are all cousins...really.