Looks like I've been wasting my time on Aliens and Loch Ness:
I heard his DNA is 96% Opossum.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
A&W
On the way to Bloomington yesterday we stopped at an A&W for lunch.
I have a very clear memory of eating at an A&W with my Mom and my Aunt Char on Cape Cod when I was a kid. Why no one else was with us I do not remember, but I remember really liking the food.
I have told this to Rachel on our visits to the Jug etc so she is the one who spotted the A&W. This one had to have been one of the originals, since it was made to be a drive up.
Overall it was not as good as I remembered, the burgers were good (but nowhere near as fresh as the Jug) and the root beer was actually terrible (tasted like diet).
But it was nice to revisit a good memory.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Be Kind Rewind
Rachel and I rented Be Kind Rewind last night (A).
She said some of the remakes reminded her of stuff her and her brother's would have done, I said it looked a lot like the movies the kids on our street made.
Link to their other Sweded movies
Their version of Lord of the Rings didn't even make the movie but it is outstanding.
I was lucky to grow up on a street with a lot of kids. Our bus stop was packed (that is Tom on the left) to the point where it required organization.
You dropped your bag off in the order of your age, played some tag, then got on the bus. (Me and most of the people I played with growing up are to the left and out of the picture).
Some of our old neighbors created a facebook group for our street and posted some old photos and movies similar to Be Kind Rewind.
Here is my brother Mike from 1985.
I don't think kids grow up like this anymore.
She said some of the remakes reminded her of stuff her and her brother's would have done, I said it looked a lot like the movies the kids on our street made.
Link to their other Sweded movies
Their version of Lord of the Rings didn't even make the movie but it is outstanding.
I was lucky to grow up on a street with a lot of kids. Our bus stop was packed (that is Tom on the left) to the point where it required organization.
You dropped your bag off in the order of your age, played some tag, then got on the bus. (Me and most of the people I played with growing up are to the left and out of the picture).
Some of our old neighbors created a facebook group for our street and posted some old photos and movies similar to Be Kind Rewind.
Here is my brother Mike from 1985.
I don't think kids grow up like this anymore.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Canada Trip #5
Toronto is a great city to visit during the summer.
Downtown was packed unlike Cincinnati.
Too bad I'll be spending weeks there in Oct once it starts to get cold.
Seeing the price of gas in liters ($1.22/l currently) does not confuse me too much.
What does confuse me is how they calculate our version of fuel efficiency (mpg).
In the newspaper ads for cars they use the number of liters it will take to drive the car 100km. So a good car is under 9 l/100km while a bad car is over 12.
30 mpg is about 8 l/100km.
Downtown was packed unlike Cincinnati.
Too bad I'll be spending weeks there in Oct once it starts to get cold.
Seeing the price of gas in liters ($1.22/l currently) does not confuse me too much.
What does confuse me is how they calculate our version of fuel efficiency (mpg).
In the newspaper ads for cars they use the number of liters it will take to drive the car 100km. So a good car is under 9 l/100km while a bad car is over 12.
30 mpg is about 8 l/100km.
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