Cory's Float

This is a float. It could be used to smooth concrete or apply grout, but I doubt it would actually float if dropped in water.

Ryan's "Float"

Little tiny helicopters float:



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Fred's "Float"

Mike's "Float"

Paper or plastic?  A plastic bag will float just about long enough for your auto focus to work.
Technically, this isn't buoyant, but at the risk of melting the bag or burning the house down, this is what I settled for.

Next week: "Down the Street"

"Float" due tomorrow.

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Cory's Race

Sorry I'm late this week - I had been out traveling the midwest since last Thursday, and I just got back this evening. I didn't have a lot of time to find the perfect race picture, but I did manage to get this one of Maddy racing around the room at one point.

Ryan's "Race"

This is Cory racing face first towards the ground during the Standing Long Jump portion of our first Feats of Strength competition.

Cory will have to relate the story of why we had this competition in the first place.




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Fred's "Race"

This is turn #3 where Dale Earnhardt lost his life in 2001.  Well, if your a go-cart racer at Funplex you can pretend it is!
Sweet Baby Jesus, I can't wait for spring!

Next week: "Float"

"Race" is due tomorrow.

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Ryan's "Picture"

Back in the film days I really liked shooting Fuji's Velvia 50. It was a beautiful slide film (and presumably still is). It currently sells for $7.00 a roll at B&H. Processing and mounting at a decent local lab runs $7.50 for a 36 exposure roll. Ignoring shipping and driving to the lab that's $0.40 per exposure.

Below is approximately $70 worth of CF cards. They will hold around 1,900 RAW images out of my camera, for a cost of about 3 cents per exposure. And they are reusable!

Making pictures sure has changed in the last 10 years...




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Fred's "Picture"

We found this photograph behind the cabinets when we remodeled the kitchen last year.  The black-and-white picture isn't that old -- maybe 10 or 15 years old.  We don't know who the kid is, or what he's holding, or why there are police cars down the street.  All we know is that it was taken a few houses down from our home.  I've seen this technique a few times and think it's pretty cool.

Cory's Picture

Alas, I don't actually have a transparent laptop screen. Instead, I had to take a picture of my picture, set part of it as my background, and then take the actual picture of my picture.

Mike's "Picture"

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the tree my wife killed to print out this document for proof reading is few pictures.
She starts a new job tomorrow and just wants to make sure she has something useful to do.

Next week: "Race"

"Picture" is due tomorrow.

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David's "Not Quite Right"

It took me a while to figure it out but I think the sofa is totally blocking the energy flow of the room from the rear bedroom into the kitchen.

Cory's Not Quite Right

Something's not quite right with Legoland's water supply.

I built this a few weeks ago and took a bad camera phone picture of it, but I felt pleased with the juxtaposition enough that I wanted to do a slightly better version. Get it? It's a fire hydrant!

Fred's Not Quite Right

While the title of this post is definitely accurate, there's also something not quite right in this shot.

Ryan's "Not Quite Right"

The owner of this flash drive carried it in his pocket every day during a combat tour in Iraq. He came back and broke it while going to school.

I think the name of it is not quite right.



I soldered a hacked up USB cable to it so he can recover his homework.

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Mike's "Not Quite Right"

We all know that Mike is not quite right.  This is an old Colman "left handed" compound bow.  I bought it so I could target practice with friends.

I am right handed, but I don't see that well out of my left eye, so I have learned to do some things left handed.  You hold this bow with your right hand, but you aim with the left eye and release with the left hand.

Since I had little experience shooting a bow, learning with the left was not as difficult for me as relearning to shoot a shot gun with my left side.

Next week: "Picture"

"Not Quite Right" is due tomorrow.

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Not Quite Right by John Baker

There is just something not quite right about my roommate sometimes.  He's a good sport though!!!