Linus eats cereal

January 13th, 2010 by david No comments »

Even though he was home sick today, Linus felt like tearing up some cereal.  His mother, in her infinite wisdom, says to Linus: “Here baby, knock yourself out!”.  And so he did.  The results speak for themselves:

LittleBigPlanet Sound effect

January 13th, 2010 by david 7 comments »

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LittleBigPlanet is quite a fun game, I’m having a blast playing it.  There is on odd quirk I’ve run into.  You see, the tutorials require you to perform a trick before you get your rewards.  There is one in particular that I was stuck on the other night.  I watched the tutorial video for 20 seconds, or whatever it was, then I went over to obey the bubble words.  This was the tutorial for sound effects (animal noises, etc.).  The quest is to put a sound effect of a chimp on a cardboard ape.  I must have stuck that sound gadget on the ape thing fifty times before I gave up and stomped to the computer room to google my problem.  I guess everyone else got it right away, because it took me ten minutes at least to find this little gem, and that didn’t even come straight off of google, the guy who posted it made another comment and linked to it and I followed that.

So, I’m making this post and trying to hit all of the keywords that are required, in the event that some other unlucky googler has the same problem I did.  The problem is with the Sound Effect Tutorial and sometimes you Cannot Complete the Sound Effect Tutorial.  maybe you “do not get prize for sound effect tutorial”.  If that happens to you, follow these steps:

  1. Place sound effect icon.
  2. Exit popit menu completely
  3. select the gadget with the cursor and tweak it.

Good luck!

Grumpy Roo

January 8th, 2010 by david No comments »

Here is a picture of which I am quite fond. Let me say that I don’t exactly recall the circumstances regarding this picture. From what I can tell by looking at the properties of the image, it was snapped in early June, 2009. This makes Roo just over two. If I recognize the background correctly we are at the parking lot of Babies R Us in Hamburg Pavilion and from the rash on his bottom chin I’d say I’ve just snatched his pacifier. I reckon I just woke him up, plopped him in the cart and stole his pacy. Anyway, I thought the look was hilarious, and one unsteady G1 slow-shot later: TADA:

This is Roo looking angry

Roo smash!

Roo and Linus at the pumpkin patch

January 8th, 2010 by david No comments »

Last year in October we took the boys to a pumpkin patch in Woodford Co and snapped some great pictures.

Andrew picked out his own pumpkin:

Roo holding pumpkin

"I'm so strong!"

Linus frolics among the pumpkins:

linus at pumpkin patch

"These things are HUGE"