Great Deal on Sunflower Seeds
It is a matter of public record that I am addicted to sunflower seeds, particularly Planter's. Which explains why I was searching for a way to buy them in bulk and found
this:
The unit price is printed RIGHT ON THE BAG, people. Sheesh. Just 'cause I
(so desperately) need my seed fix doesn't mean I'm going to renounce capitalism and join a seed cult under Mr. Peanut's charismatic leadership. Although I am mesmerized by his monocle.
Episode 2: The Fox and the Holland?
Hey, It's the Kurths!, Episode 2 is here:
Download 3:09 mp3 (3MB)In this episode, we discuss: (1) The movie
The Fox and the Hound, and (2) whether anyone will ever eat Daddy.
Hey, It's a Podcast!
Kaeta and I have a new podcast called Hey, It's the Kurths!, and we just recorded the first episode tonight. Check it out!
Download 2:36 mp3 (2MB)In this episode, we discuss: (1) The name of the podcast, (2) going swimming last weekend, (3) what Mommy is doing, and (4) the movie
The Fox and the Hound.
To subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, click the "Advanced" menu, select "Subscribe to Podcast," and enter this URL:
http://thekurths.com/podcast/atom.xml
I will also post episodes here. A few notes on this first episode:
- I need to figure out how to elicit better responses than "Yeah."
- It's kind of cute that Jonah's babbling in the background the whole time, but maybe we won't have that every time.
- Next time I will have a better plan for things to talk about. For a first try, this was okay, but it can definitely get better.
- I'm using a Blue Snowball microphone, which is new; so far it's doing a good job.
- When editing the recording, the first thing I did was run it through a free program called The Levelator, which does an amazing job of setting levels. Kaeta can be right next to the mic, then run across the room, talking the whole time, and Levelator makes it sound like she never moved. I may do a whole post just demonstrating how cool that is (I can hear people deleting this blog from their bookmarks even as I type that...).
Those are my thoughts so far. Do you have any suggestions? Is there anything
you would like to ask Kaeta?
Labels: podcast, recording
Whatever Whenever: Monday, June 9, 2009
We have been embarrassingly remiss in posting lately, especially photos. I'd like to do some catching up, so here's a stream of unrelated things:
1. Wedding. We went to Mark Meiller's wedding (a sign of the Apocalypse? Just kidding, congrats, Mark :-), and Kaeta got down and boogied on the dance floor! Her version of dancing is basically spinning around until she falls over... same as mine.
2. Marty. Kaeta enjoys wrestling with Marty (how long has it been since we posted a Marty picture? Seriously, we're just bad people, ya'll. We still have a dog. He is fine.).
I'm not sure he's enjoying this:
3. Sing us a song, you're the ukulele man. I'm amazed by how musical Jonah seems. It's hard to tell much at 7 months (he turned 7 months old 2 days ago), but he really perks up whenever I play the guitar, sing, etc. Anyway, he's learning the ukulele:
4. Midnight Madness. On a non-kid-related note, I competed in Midnight Madness again this year (this is an "every-so-often" city-wide scavenger hunt puzzle-solving game thingy). Here's a photo of my team (not pictured: Karianne, at home, googling for us):
That's Colin and me in the back, Gottfried and Sara in front. The man in the background behind Colin was not affiliated with us.
Midnight Madness probably deserves its own post, but let's get real here, when am I ever going to do that? So I'll post a few photos from that night. Here are Colin and Sara exiting a canoe after snagging the first clue (it was written in chalk underneath the Lamar bridge):
We had to fill these Ozarka jugs with water using only Dixie cups and a sprinkler (couldn't move the jugs). Colin was a trouper and used his hat to scoop huge amounts of water at a time, so we finished the challenge pretty fast:
Around 11:30 PM, one of the clues required us to play a video game. Colin kicked significant booty at it:
In this one, you can barely see part of my special Wifi-detecting shirt. It's the only clothing I own that requires 3 AAA batteries. The center of the shirt lights up to tell you when you are in a Wifi hotspot. Having a light-up shirt, I found out later that night, could make you quite popular at the bars along 4th street. I got a lot of compliments from random people (I don't think they were appreciating the nerdiness of it, though; I think they were just like, "wow, it lights up!").
Here's a Lamborghini Diablo we drove behind downtown:
5. Kid Update: Still cute. So much more I could say about MM, but let's get back to some cute kid pics, right? Here's Joel pushing Kaeta on a little car at the Tallents' house. Amelia is in the background.
6. Dollhouse. Kaeta LOVES to play with this dollhouse, built by her Grandpa for Karianne back when she was a little girl.
Two things from this morning
When I went in to get Kaeta up this morning, she pointed at a little (maybe 4 inch tall) blue stuffed bunny in Jonah's crib. She said, "Dat bunny doesn't
fit in Jonah's crib!" (That was her way of saying she wanted to see it.)
And just now, out of nowhere, she told me, "I'm just runnin' to HEB." I told her to pick us up some juice.
Morning Announcement
I just went into Kaeta's room to get her up, and she was already running around the room playing. When I came in, she said,
"Hello! Those are burp cloths for Jonah." She pointed at some burp cloths (aka cloth diapers).
"That's right!" I said. I pointed at her pajama shirt and said, "And here are kitty-cat pajamas, for Kaeta!"
"Yeah!"
Then I pointed at my shoes. "And here are some shoes for Daddy!"
She looked at the shoes. Then she said, "I don't have shoes. I just have feet." She touched her feet to show me.
"Well," I said, "I like your feet."
She looked up at me and smiled and said, "I like your shoes!"
