The Game of Life

Kaelyn likes to say <person> happy birthday when referring to someone’s birthday.  So when we went to Kierstin from dance’s birthday party we got to hear it plenty.  After the short video I had taken with the point and shoot at dance (here for anyone who missed it).  Lori was nice enough to volunteer me to bring the camcorder and take some video of the party.  I edited in iMovie (’08 for those who care.. Eddie), and then posted the results on blip.tv.  While the 2.5mbit/s encoding of the 49 minute video came in at 976MB and blip.tv says they accept files up to 1GB, it puked the flash encoding.  I tried it again at 1.5mbit/s but that didn’t work either.  I have a feeling it is the time duration not the file size that it doesn’t like.  I ended up uploading the 2.5mbit/s version in two pieces.  Here they are;

Part 1 – http://blip.tv/file/1744731
Part 2 – http://blip.tv/file/1745712

This is the first upload I did that is 16:9 and it looks great.  I ended up encoding at 854×480 since it is still standard definition quality video.  

The morning of the great cup tower destruction Lori dressed Kaelyn up in some play clothes and we taped the results.  The phone part is pretty funny.

http://blip.tv/file/1700735/

Forbes’ list is out again and Phoenix is the #17th most connected city.  Seattle takes the cake at #1.  Phoenix is most hurt ranking wise by wifi hotspots.

Direct link to Phoenix;

http://tr.im/cgl3

(from Engadget)

Twenty-five years ago Steve Jobs stood in front of a room and for the first time ever showed off the Macintosh.  What a long way technology has come since then..

Happy birthday Mac!

(from TUAW)

I haven’t posted part one yet, but Lori is in love with this video.  Everyone that has come over in the last week has been shown the video proudly.  Dan and Marcella even had to wait to watch the NFC Championship (Go Cardinals!) in order for us to show them.

Here it is;

http://blip.tv/file/1699347

In early October the city put on Founder’s Day down at Pacana Park.  We hung out with Alyssa, Will, and Avery and let the two munchkins run around.  We had snow cones, got a balloon animal for K, and got to see her be scared of Big Red (the Cardinals mascot for the uninitiated).  On the drive over there we saw a banner for something having to do with a pumpkin patch, and then got a flyer for it while we were at the park.

The next day we went over to one of the local nurseries and had fun at the "First Annual Halloween Fun Day Pumpkin Patch & Festival".  Here are the pictures;

In October we went to Schnepf Farms for the better part of the day.  It was actually really fun, and not far from the splurging Queen Creek residential areas.  Kaelyn really enjoyed herself (despite the heat), and even got to ride her first pony.  Here are the pictures;