I have a whole new slew of pictures and video for you to partake of. I doubled the size of our Summer fun 2009 photo album by adding more random pictures from the summer, starting with Emma in her kiddie pool.
As for video, I’ll warn you that there is quite a lot here. Seven and a half minutes of video, if you put it all together. The last one, alone, is over four minutes. I group them together for those of you who don’t care about these things. For those of you who enjoy them, well that just means more to enjoy.
First up is a short clip Stephanie recorded one day of Emma wearing her slippers and playing with a hat.
Next, we have a video of Emma playing the “Where’s Emma?” game behind the curtains at our condo in Williamsburg. She’s been playing some variation of this game for quite some time, but this is the first time we were fortunate enough to catch it on video.
Next is a video of Emma’s various animal sounds. She knows more than we got to. Stephanie walked into the room partway through, and of course Emma found running to her much more interesting than reciting animal sounds with daddy. From there, Stephanie grabs the camera to record Emma bringing me a book to read with her.
And lastly we have a video that may be surprising to some of you who know how non-athletic I am, but I’m actually trying to teach Emma how to play soccer in this one. She’s actually quite talented for a seventeen-month-old, I’d say!
A week ago, when I tried to connect to the wireless internet at our resort in Williamsburg, I was told I needed to pay for it. I found the second purchasing option to be very strangely worded:
I wanted to add two more points to last month’s Netflix vs. Blockbuster post. First, Blockbuster allows you to continue to access your account and modify your queue even after you have cancelled your membership. This is nice for me, because it means I can add movies as they come out in theaters, rather than sitting down next May and trying to remember every movie from the last year that I wanted to see. With Netflix, you get nothing but a message telling you how to come back.
Second, Blockbuster announced in February that they would integrate games into their service, on a trial basis, and hopefully roll out the service by the second half of the year. Apparently the trials didn’t go so well, because we’re almost halfway through the second half of this year and they haven’t mentioned games at all. It would have been a very convient Netflix+GameFly type of service (speaking of which, if those two companies merged, wouldn’t that be cool?). But I’ve since found Goozex (which I might blog about some day) to provide me with a fresh and cheap supply of video games. And it’s not like Netflix offers video games either, so neither service has an advantage here.
We’ll get there eventually. Music has moved to almost entirely digital distribution. Games are getting there, with some full XBox 360 games to be available as downloads soon. Of course there’s no solution out there for second-hand games without a physical disk, which is a drawback for those of us who don’t have to have games as soon as they release. Movies are getting there too (with Netflix streaming and OnDemand you kinda have the option now). The biggest obstacles are brick&mortars (especially GameStop) dragging their feet, threatening not to sell games if the digitally distributed games undercut their price. That and resistance by ISPs to increase broadband speeds.
How to tell if Kip will hate a television program: ask yourself, “does this show feature amateurs doing some kind of performance, after which they are critiqued by three judges, one of whom is foreign and mean?”
If the answer is yes, then Kip will hate the show.
September 16, 2:05 pm
Why don’t you blog about how stupid it is that people are still mailing around digital content?
September 16, 10:48 pm
We’ll get there eventually. Music has moved to almost entirely digital distribution. Games are getting there, with some full XBox 360 games to be available as downloads soon. Of course there’s no solution out there for second-hand games without a physical disk, which is a drawback for those of us who don’t have to have games as soon as they release. Movies are getting there too (with Netflix streaming and OnDemand you kinda have the option now). The biggest obstacles are brick&mortars (especially GameStop) dragging their feet, threatening not to sell games if the digitally distributed games undercut their price. That and resistance by ISPs to increase broadband speeds.