Kinetic Link, Daylight Savings

After participating in our first Kinetic Sculpture Race last year (as volunteers), we were determined to enter this year's race as "competitors". Not gonna happen; we slacked off big-time. Aside from coming up with a few good ideas, we gathered no materials and didn't draw up any plans. Well, there's always 2009. Meanwhile, these kinetic sculptures are in a class of their own.

Meanwhile, what's with this extended daylight savings time, anyway? It probably increases electricity consumption, but do other health and safety-related benefits outweigh that factor?

Mean Frog, Good Band Name?

Maybe I've been playing too much Rock Band, because the first thing I thought when I read this article about a giant frog fossil found in Madagascar, was that Beelzebufo, and even its English translation devil frog, would be great band names. As for the frog itself? Ten pounds, and sixteen inches tall - wow.

Sweet Tail

Here are a few photos from our whale-watching excursion while we were in Boston a few weeks ago. We were up there seeing the sights and visiting Lis and John, who graciously put us up for a few nights and showed us around.

This past weekend was another crazy-busy weekend filled with Matt & Amy wedding stuff. A fun time, but it took us a few days to recover from all the activity and all the people.

And now Mr. Grau is a father. And the apocalypse is not upon us! Weird.