More memories of my parents.

( Animals, pets, a video, and miscellany such as puzzles )

I found my old memory posts too, describing events from when I was a kid. They were more focused on me than I quite want but they do include my parents' reactions (and some of the stories I only have because they amused, astonished, and/or impressed my folks enough to retell). The ones I have so far found are:

http://kyrielle.livejournal.com/10864.html?mode=reply
http://kyrielle.livejournal.com/56726.html?mode=reply
http://kyrielle.livejournal.com/56896.html?mode=reply

More memories of Dad - X-treme Geek

Dad was on the mailing list for an X-treme Geek catalog. Sometime in the last month or so when I was over there, he had it out and pulled it up to show me something. I forget what - I think one of the shirts but none of them rings a bell as such! At any rate I explained some of the other shirts to him (World of Warcraft references, which he didn't get) and began flipping through. We discussed other things but periodically side-tracked onto some item in the catalog, at times amusing Mom with our conversation. I don't remember if she said much, but I know she was tracking, reacting, and amused at times.

There's a gaming 'keyboard' that's round and has the key 'directional' letters on it, which I explained to him, and bunch of electrical / LED roadside flares. I brought the catalog home, with his okay, that day because of those flares - definitely beat the literally burning kind. Meant to look around locally to see if I could get them without mail-ordering, and hadn't done so yet. Unless that was when I bought the newer auto-emergency kits, which it may be. (We already had some, but put together by hand, and not ideal.)

There is a "stash card" which goes into a laptop card slot, and can be popped open to hold money, stamps, etc. Dad and I were commenting, yes, but what happens when you overload it and can't get it open / out of the computer? O.o I know I chuckled at, but don't remember if we discussed, the USB-powered drink coolers and warmers. On that same page was a clock that tracked the day of the week, and we joked that since Dad was retired, that's what they needed. We agreed the mobile workstation cart looked a touch impractical.

I can only guess that it was either the human bar code, or the "Social Engineering Specialist" t-shirt that Dad commented on. The back of the latter says "Because there is no patch for human stupidity". But I'm not sure - I don't remember. Maybe "The sun is trying to kill me"? Hmm. I don't remember. :( I remember a good 5 minutes or more browsing it and commenting on things, but not where it started exactly.

Photos

Some days back I mentioned a lovely sunrise. I finally uploaded the best photo of it - alas, the only one that caught the glory of the colors fuilly was blurry so I did not upload it. I also uploaded a pic of a plant from my parents' house. What IS it? Does anyone know?

Thanks.

Sunrise
Plant

Grrr. How old IS the Grand Canyon?

From canyoncat

HOW OLD IS THE GRAND CANYON? PARK SERVICE WON’T SAY — Orders to Cater to Creationists Makes National Park Agnostic on Geology

“In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is ‘no comment.’”

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