Tag: iphoneography

Museum of Science

On Monday my step daughter had to work. My step son suggested that we take advantage of the situation by going to the Museum of Science. Seemed like a good idea to me. We didn’t stay long, but we had a good time while we were there.

iPhone camera evidence follows:

This picture represents my impression of every 1950’s science fiction movie.


It is hard to imagine that this is accurate, but this shows that a T-Rex has bigger feet than I. Ridiculous, am I right?


Here we see a model of the kitty that left the gigantic foot print. I kept telling my step son that this was just a big kitty with a baldness issue but he wasn’t buying it. Meow.


Here we see the downside of dieting. No… that joke wasn’t funny. I can’t come up with anything even remotely funny to add to this image. Well, at least I hope that I look this good when I’m a zillion years old and an extinct fossil.


This photo shows why I could never have been a Mercury Astronaut. I am way too big to fit in that tiny little capsule. John Glenn must have been really small.


And there you have it. My goofily lame Museum of Science recap post.

Bose

We bought my wife a nice set of Bose speakers for her computer for her birthday last year. Since then she bought a high end sound system that blows the system we got out of the water. She gave me the Bose set a few months ago but I took my sweet time hooking it up.

Until today. It’s a massive upgrade over what I had before. Now I just want to sit at my desk with the volume cranked, feeling the sub woofer shake the floor.


Awesome!

Sky

My step son signed up for a Magic the Gathering tournament tonight. We haven’t a clue how long it will last so I am outside in the parking lot waiting.

So far I’ve watched some Supergirl on my iPad (it’s okay, but not even close to as good as The Flash), and taken a few camera phone snaps of the sky.

Wanna see?


That’s the standard iPhone 6 Plus camera, touched up with Photoshop Express. The next one is the recent pinhole lens for Hipstamatic.


Cool, huh?

My step son is so passionate about playing Magic. He talks about it all the time. I haven’t a clue what anything he says means, but I can sit there and listen to it all day long. The kid is a force of nature.

How about one more pic for luck?


Nice. Okay then, back to Supergirl I go. If I get through the few episodes I downloaded onto my iPad I’ll switch to Stranger Things on Netflix on my phone.

The Most Hipster Thing I’ve Ever Been A Part Of

So hipster that even the cola is locally produced.

Over fourth of July weekend in 2008 my wife and I drove to Saratoga Springs, NY to see Rush at SPAC. We sat in the second to last row of the balcony and the show was freakin’ awesome.


On the drive there we went through a town called Woodstock, VT and were instantly won over. We did a little sight seeing and decided that at the very least we were going to buy a house there when we retired. Best case scenario we were going to buy a building there and open a business and build a summer home on a river or something.


Instead of doing all of that, we decided it would be great to add Woodstock to our honeymoon. Our first of three stops on what was originally going to be a huge road trip, but turned into cross country travel instead. Tewksbury, MA to Woodstock, VT to Manchester, NH (just for the airport) to Washington, DC to San Diego, CA. Woodstock was limited to just one full day, but we once again had a great time wandering around the town and just loving everything about it.

Today we were supposed to drive from New York City back home. We left at around 8:00 am and headed North. Shortly after we got out of the city my wife had an idea. Let’s head North into New York State and then cross over into Vermont and pass through Woodstock. We just wanted to stop for lunch and then head home. Consider it the long, long, long way home.

We picked a restaurant using Yelp! and unknowingly found the single most hipster establishment on Earth. The place is called Worthy Kitchen. Locally produced beef, locally produced poultry, locally produced produce, locally produced craft beer, and (if you can dig this) locally produced soda. The guy taking our order actually looked down his nose at us when we ordered a coke.

I got a burger and fries. It was outstanding. Jen got something with oodles of cheese on it that she said was excellent. The locally produced cola was… eh. Either way it was something else about Woodstock, VT that was really cool. Even if it was a weird alternate reality where hipsters rule the world.