The Wonderful World of Color, revisited

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I came across this beautifully produced video of California Adventure’s World of Color that we enjoyed many times during our anniversary trip out west last fall. It’s probably quite easily the single thing that I miss the most from that trip – the show was long as hell, and a pain to get FastPasses for, but it sure was an incredible 26 minutes once the jets finally started spraying!

Don’t get me wrong – I love Wishes and IllumiNations and Fantasmic as our fireworks shows here in Florida, for sure, but still you can’t help but be a little jealous of California Adventure over this incredible show. Who knows, maybe in a few years Disney will decide to dump a billion dollars into Animal Kingdom and it’ll get some sort of nighttime spectacular of its own…

STOP THE CHAIRS!!!

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Ok, so I generally think that wrestling is pretty stupid, but for some reason this is just cracks me up…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5J2YwHqzlc

I can only hope that unlike everything else in professional wrestling, this little scene wasn’t staged!

Flower & Garden Finale highlights

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So after preparing for puppy yesterday, today we spent the day over at Epcot taking in quite literally the last day of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. I’m not going to go on and on about it here because I’m writing a separate blog post for the currently undisclosed Disney project that I’m hoping to finally launch soon, but we definitely had a good time. It was a nice, relaxing trip, it didn’t even rain, even though it thunder & lightning’ed like the damn sky was falling down the night before, and I’m definitely glad that we got to see the new Pixar topiaries that were featured this year!

Here were a few of my favorites…

waiting for Cleo…

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Only a few more days left until we pick up our brand new puppy, and then subsequently have to replace everything that she’s chewed to pieces the following day!

We spent a good part of the afternoon today stocking up on puppy everything at PetSmart – I felt like one of those guys on Supermarket Sweep, just pushing the cart and grabbing anything and everything that my wife yelled for me to grab from across the store! Up until the actual checkout, I didn’t think that we had done too bad, but the final price definitely begged to differ … and yet something deep down tells me that the true spoiling has yet to begin…


Anyways, we are both really looking forward to bringing her home. I’m not quite sure that I’m ready for all of the chewing that puppies are known for and our house is definitely chew toy central in its current state of disarray, however I think we’ve done just about all of the preparation that we can possibly do – it’s gonna have to be a crash course from here on out.

The cutest, cuddliest little crash course you ever did see!

Zombie Favs

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I’ve been having a lot of fun with Plants vs. Zombies lately. I’m definitely starting to develop my own preferred plants and an overall strategy – I was particularly proud of these recent fortifications…


Love the snorkeling zombies, and even the ones riding the dolphins, even though they can be a pain in the ass to kill!

Also, very first time I saw this screen…

Infographics, Daily

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I came across this site the other day and it ended up finding a place in my collection of links that I try to read on a regular basis. You might have to take the content with several grains of salt because they seem to come from a lot of different sources, advocacy groups, etc…, but they’re still kind of fun and interesting to flip through from a statistical perspective…

Some of my own favorites:

A Few Moore Thoughts on Bin Laden’s Death…

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I don’t really have anything left to say about this, but Michael Moore wrote a really good blog post with some final thoughts about Bin Laden’s death, the war on terror, and the future of our freedoms.

So yeah, basically a more literate version of what I wrote last week … from a guy who’s far more passionate about politics than I!

Anywho, enjoy…

Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/some-final-thoughts-on-death-of-osama-bin-laden

So some of Sara’s fish had babies…

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I spent the better part of an hour fishing them out of her ginormous tank this evening so as to prevent them from getting gobbled up by their parents and other adult fish neighbors. I was able to find 8 of them total, which was impressive to me because they really only had one little fake anemone-like thing for them to hide in.

Needless to say, I kept myself greatly amused during the hunt by comtemplating how kinda messed up it is that adult fish can’t even be trusted with their own babies. You can probably expect something funny about it next week, but in the meantime, enjoy squinting to try and see the new baby fishies!


P.S. They’re baby swordtails.

Speaking of jetpacks…

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Boy, does this really bring back some great memories!

I was probably 11 or 12 when we got this game for the Amiga, and it was really cool, but also really hard! I think the best that I ever got was maybe 3 or 4 rocket parts and half the rocket’s payload of lunarium before the Nazis would take over or I’d plummet to my death from 10,000 feet in the air or something. Taking off was always the trickiest part – I don’t know how much time I lost hitting my third strike and having it eventually just default me into the air…