Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit the Alaska State Aviation Trade Show and Conference held at the FedEx hanger at the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, AK. The show was chock full of interesting aviation equipment, vintage and modern aircraft, collectibles and of course trade show food. It was an enjoyable way to spend some time off from work on a Sunday afternoon.
Luckily I had my little Fujifilm Finepix V10 on hand to pop a series of shots. Click the photo (or here) to see more images and if you know what kind of plane we are looking at in a particular image, post a note. I’ll update the photo information so later viewers will be informed viewers.
Let’s make this interesting. Whoever adds the most accurate number of posts within the month will get a free invite to the Evernote beta! I have a few invites remaining and this would be a great way to get some community participation and group think going while rewarding the ONE of you who actually reads the GUOM posts! Happy viewing.
A big thanks to the Random Mind website. The author of this site focuses on the use of Instructional Technologies and apparently was present during a presentation I gave along with Joe Hostetler during the 2007 League for Innovations Conference on Information Technology held in Nashville, TN. During that presentation we shared some of our favorite free and low cost apps that make teaching more enjoyable and productive. The Random Mind blog post does a great job reiterating our selections.
It’s at this point that I should also mention that the GUOM folks are for hire! If you have a professional development activity/event and are in need of dynamic, fun and engaging presenters, send Nikki and I an e-mail. We specialize in presentations on the use of information technologies to enhance teaching, learning and program management in the educational and corporate environment.
and this is just a test post from my iPhone using the WPhone Wordpress plugins. Lovin’ it. Also installed the iWPhone plugin. So browse here using your iPhone and see an optimized version of GUOM. Finally, I’ve updated the site to the latest version of Wordpress and have a new theme in place. Let me know what you think!
I’m not sure where I first heard about the Arduino micro-controller (it was probably in the pages of Make Magazine), but I’ve been hooked on this little piece of open source electronics ever since. It’s also been a great tool for instruction. Beginning this week, I am using the board to demonstrate micro-controller programming to my C-Programming course students. Since the Arduino software is loosely based on C, it’s make the perfect training tool to allow my students to experience physical computing programming which is much more interesting than PC based programming (IMHO).
On a purely personal note today. We got snow (or rather a thick layer of ice) here in south-western Indiana. Enough to warrant a couple days off for the kiddos from school. I popped a few shots this morning outside our home and have placed these photos in our Flickr account. You can check them out at:
Most of these shots were taken with my iPhone. Very disappointed in the quality. Enough so that I ran out and grabbed another couple of shots with our Fujifilm FinePix V10. Man I love that little camera. Can you pick out the two images that I snapped with this camera?
There’s enough of a difference to really make me wish that Apple would upgrade the capabilities of the iPhone camera. Maybe some third-party app (which we are supposed to begin seeing later this month) can add better control of image quality (although I’m pretty sure they won’t be able to do much as the auto-focus is pretty much fixed). I’ll keep my fingers crossed cuz when these “Kodak..err..Fuji” moments happen, it seems like the only camera I have on hand is the iPhone. Really…it’s not a bad camera for quick shots, just not a great one.
As you know, we are HUGE fans of LEGO. We have enough LEGO bricks in our home to probably build another home. So we are very happy to announce that LEGO is celebrating their 50th Anniversary during the month of January. More specifically at 1:58pm Denmark Time today (28 January). We’ve been meaning to blog about this for sometime to prepare our readers and quite frankly it’s slipped past our radar. Have no fear faithful reader, here’s the info you need to celebrate and not a moment too soon.
With all the hub-bub about the new Time Capsule NAS device from Apple and the lack of current AirPort Extreme owners not being able to use this feature (currently that’s the case, but I’m betting that will change in a soon to be released update) I noticed something very peculiar yesterday. My MacBook Pro began using Time Machine to back up my data to the USB drive I had attached to my AirPort extreme. And I have NO idea why it began to do so. It’s very strange indeed.
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About a week before Christmas, my son came home with an exercise for his Dad, yep…parents get homework these days! My task? Write about the best Christmas gift I ever received as a child. I fondly remembered a wonderful gift called the Ready Ranger Pack by Aurora. It was an amazing use of plastic in the mid 1970s and was my Red Ryder BB Gun (of course a reference to the film A Christmas Story).
After journaling about this toy, I performed a quick search online for information about this product and found a Spiegel catalog page (remember them?), courtesy of plaidstallions.com, and a comic book advertisement. I printed this information and included them along with my journaling. Definitely an overachiever and Dad would surely receive an “A” for his submission. And you can’t “shoot your eye out” with this gift. I have included these images and you can click them for a larger view.
In our second video blog post at GUOM, we give you a chance to observe the first 7 minutes of a Pleo’s life.
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Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit the Alaska State Aviation Trade Show and Conference held at the FedEx hanger at the Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, AK. The show was chock full of interesting aviation equipment, vintage and modern aircraft, collectibles and of course trade show food. It was an enjoyable way to spend some time off from work on a Sunday afternoon.
