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Holiday Decoration Nightmares

November 5, 2015 TechyDad Holidays, Photos, Videos

Halloween is the season for some truly terrifying decorations.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

A video posted by Techy Dad (@techydad) on Oct 31, 2015 at 5:57pm PDT

Now that Halloween over, though, it’s time to set our sights on the next major holiday in the United States. No, I’m not talking about Thanksgiving. Technically, that is the next one up, but retailers are quick to skip right over it to get their Christmas on.

You normally wouldn’t think about Christmas as having terrifying decorations. At least, not unless Jack Skellington was responsible for them. While this doesn’t look like Jack’s handiwork, it is still plenty terrifying:

This is the stuff of holiday nightmares!

A video posted by Techy Dad (@techydad) on Nov 1, 2015 at 8:17am PST

LIFE-SIZE, SINGING, GYRATING ROBOT SANTA! KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!

A Green Screen Birthday Adventure

August 20, 2014 TechyDad Birthday, Disney, NHL, Photos

When one is having a birthday celebration for your kids, there is one big rule: Always take photographs so your kids will remember what happened. For example, I made sure to take plenty of photos since NHL, JSL, and Cousins S and B had a huge adventure to celebrate NHL turning 11.

First, we boarded an airplane. Note: Keep an eye on your kids at all times when on airplanes. I looked away for a second and found them on the wing of the plane.

Don’t ask me how they got there or how they withstood the force of the air against them. Getting them back in was tricky, but we somehow managed it.

When we landed, we immediately went to our destination: Disney World!

Um, kids, I don’t think you’re supposed to stand there.

Hey, get out of that parade!

Again, don’t ask me how they got atop the Monorail… Or why they looked so big atop it. I was too busy at the time worrying that they’d fall off. (And taking a quick photo or two. Priorities, people!)

Next, we went on a safari drive in Animal Kingdom. You’d think that by now I’d have learned my lesson about looking away. The kids pointed to an ostrich in one direction, though, and when I looked back…

Long story short, we’re not welcome back there again. Thanks a lot, kids!

At least we were able to go to Epcot, though. You know, the park with the iconic Spaceship Earth…

WHAT?!!! How’d they get there? No wonder people were screaming as I took this photo. That also explains the security guard who dragged them back to me. Silly kids.

At least that’s the wackiest thing they could possibly do, right?

Nope. They just *had* to sneak backstage and find Wayne Szalinski’s shrinking machine from the old Honey, I Shrunk The Audience attraction. It took us a few hours before we spotted them on this flower.

At that point, we decided to cut our losses and get home before the kids decided to leave the planet or something.

Wait, was *that* where they disappeared to when they took my camera? How did they even get to the moon anyway? (I *thought* I saw a blue phone box in Epcot’s England area next to the red ones!)

Thankfully, we got everyone back home and back to the proper size…

Uh oh….. Well, happy birthday anyway, NHL!

NOTE: All photos above were taken by me with the exception of the Moon photo which comes from NASA. (All NASA photos are public domain.) The "green screen" originals are thanks to a green screen in the Children’s Museum of Science and Technology (CMOST) in Troy, NY.

A Quick Post About An Exhausting Weekend – Caption This Cat

July 7, 2014 TechyDad Animals, Photography, Photos

This weekend was an exhausting one. We went to B’s aunt’s house by the lake every day where we swam in the pool, played on the beach, went out on a boat, had fun with our relatives, and ate a lot of food. This weekend was also mentally exhausting because my mother rushed to the ER with severe stomach pains and nausea. After thinking it might be appendicitis, the actual cause was determined to be gall stones. Luckily, she passed them. Not-so-luckily, once a gall bladder starts making gall stones, it will just make more of them and they can be fatal. So her gall bladder had to come out. Surgery was scheduled, she was operated on, and – after a day – she was allowed to go home.

Though I took a ton of photos over the weekend, I was physically and mentally wiped out at the end of each night and just climbed into bed. Sunday night, I finally got the chance to look them through. Still, though, I might need awhile to process through them and see what will get posted.

Until I do, here’s one I knew I wanted to post. It’s of Aunt S’s new cat, Oliver. The kids had fun playing with him and his other kitten sibling during our time there. The kitten really loved chasing laser pointers and playing with toys. Oliver even let me pick him up.

But this photo was my favorite. I caught Oliver mid-meow and this expression was priceless.

I feel like this should have a witty caption, but my brain is still too tired to come up with one. So I’m leaving it up to you.

What would you caption this photo?

Butterflies at the Museum of Innovation and Science

March 13, 2014 TechyDad Museum, Photos

After doing a lot of freelance work and then relaxing with some Lego Marvel Super Heroes, I realized all too late that I hadn’t done a post for Wednesday. Oops. So here are some photos of butterflies taken at the Museum of Innovation and Science in Schenectady. (The butterfly house will be out until April 19th.)

The Making Of A Fez

October 2, 2013 TechyDad Crafting, Doctor Who, Photos

Here are some photos of my fez coming into existence. For detailed instructions on how to make a fez (as well as a printable template for tracing out the felt and foam), head over to Tally’s Treasury.

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