Category: Internet

The Adventures of Disco Man and Fire Guy

Geeky Pursuits, Internet, JSL, NHL, Photos, Superheroes

JSL and NHL love superheroes. From Batman to Iron Man to Spiderman to Ben 10, they love watching and acting out the exploits of various superheroes. So they both loved it when I introduced them to Hero Machine. They each had a blast creating their own superhero identity.

First, JSL made himself into Fire Guy:

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He was quite adament that Fire Guy be blue and have a cape. Those were non-negotiable. I’m guessing his powers include the ability to throw fire around.

Next up was NHL. He came up with Disco Man:

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When I asked why "Disco", NHL replied that it was because of his eyes. They looked like disco balls. (I pointed out a disco ball one time when we bowled a month ago. Good recollection!) He also declared that Disco Man had the power "to die sharks." I’m not sure how useful that power is in the day-to-day life of a super hero. If there’s an evil Shark Dude villian out there, he’d better steer clear of Disco Man.

Of course, I couldn’t let them have all the fun. I designed a superhero for myself and B. Now, we’re a superhero family!

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Now, if you’ll excuse me, I believe some evil needs to be vanquished! TechyDad, away!

Aloha Friday: Spammers, Scrapers and Thieves, Oh My!

Aloha Friday, Blogging, Copyright, DMCA, Internet, Photos, Spam

I had a great Aloha Friday question all lined up, but it’s going to have to wait. As I was headed home, I got a call from B. She searched Twitter for #DisneySMMoms and found a tweet from a user named EsterlDode titled "#DisneySMMoms 2010 – A Not-So-Impossible" followed by a URL. Now, she recognized this as the beginning of my latest DisneySMMoms post so she clicked the link wondering what she would get. She was greeted by my webpage. Except it wasn’t my webpage.

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Keeping History Alive, Part 3: Ancestry.com

Family, Genealogy, Internet, Review

It’s been nearly a month since the last installment in my Keeping History Alive series. There was a good reason for this, though. I’ve been busy trying out Ancestry.com. The folks over at Ancestry.com were nice enough to give me a month free to review the site and I kind of got lost in it. Not in the “it’s a maze where you can’t find anything” sense. Their website is very well put together. It is both easy to use and feature-rich, a balance that can be hard to strike. Instead, I got lost in the “there’s so much information here I don’t know where to begin” sense.

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Sid The Downloadable Kid!

Health, Internet, Science, Shows, Television

I’ve talking about Sid The Science Kid before. I reviewed and hosted a giveaway for a Sid toy. I even mentioned a great episode about vaccines. So how could Sid get any better? How about like this:

Yes, that’s the complete Sid The Science Kid Vaccine episode able to be viewed online. And no, it’s not a pirated version, but a fully approved version. Don’t think it could get better than that? Well, if you go to Flu.gov, you can download this Sid episode for free.

As you may know, I’m a big fan of online video. I stream Netflix movies regularly on my Roku (especially another Henson production, Farscape). I’ve also considered cutting the cable cord more than once. (If we did, I’d be glad that PBS Kids, and thus Sid the Science Kid and Dinosaur Train would be available via over-the-air television.) Being able to watch a Sid episode on my computer via the Internet is great. (Note to PBS Kids: Please consider making a Roku channel to stream full episodes to people’s Roku boxes on demand. My kids would love this!)

Aloha Friday: Sticky Tunage

Aloha Friday, Internet, Music, Television

The other day, I was watching Mythbusters on Discovery Channel, when one of their commercials came on:

It didn’t take me long to begin humming along.  I thought I had remembered this commercial from seeing it a few years back.  A little searching and I found the previous version:

I couldn’t stop singing "Boom De Yada" over and over.  Just when I thought I had gotten it out of my head, I saw someone post a link to this video on Twitter:

Now I couldn’t stop singing this!  "Will you let me go? Ma-na-ma-nah.  I will not let you go. Let me throw.  Ma-na-ma-nah.  I will not let you throw.  Let me blow.  Ma-na-ma-nah.  I will not let you blow.  Let me joke.  Do not like your jokes.  Let me joke.  Do not like your jokes!  Let me joke!"  Sorry, there I go again.

Anyway, my Aloha Friday question is: Besides these songs now (evil laugh), what other songs have been running through your head?

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the MckLinky there if you are participating.

Aloha Friday by Kailani at An Island Life

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