Favorite Springtime Flowers

Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis

Common violet, Viola odorata

White azaleas

A branch of bleeding heart flowers

Sitting with Snoopy, smiling but feeling queasy at Kings Dominion

I made a promise to my nephew to go on every roller coaster we could fit into a day at Kings Dominion, so that is why I am sitting with Snoopy, smiling but feeling queasy.

Hand Blasters

How do they work? These hand blasters are ceramic balls coated with potassium chlorate, sulfur, glue, and powdered glass. When the two balls collide, the friction between the sand causes a chemical reaction between the potassium chlorate and the sulfur. This reaction gives off energy in the form of heat and sound.

Rubber Band Shooter

Garden and Gun Magazine

This is a real magazine.

7-11 Slurpee never tasted so good

I was so dehydrated from the temperature at my job and the fact that I gave a consultation in one of the Editing Rooms and a workshop in the Multimedia Room that I needed a Slurpee from 7-11 to keep from passing out after work.

It worked for a few hours before I succumbed to the dizziness and passed out.

Conference at Disneyland presentation time and date

So my presentation at the "Conference at Disneyland" is scheduled for Thursday, June 10; 4:00 - 5:30 pm...the conference is from June 9-June 12...what will I do on the other days??? Attend other conference talks or GO TO DISNEYLAND??!!??

THEM: "Mr. Keller, you need to get off the Space Mountain ride and give your presentation."

ME: "Wheeeeee!!!"

Door! Slam!

When one door opens, another door closes.

I'm going to Disneyland!

So, Ed, the interactive session presentation for your audio adapter invention just got accepted to the New Media Consortium 2010 Summer Conference, now what are you going to do? I'm going to Disneyland...You see the Conference is in Anaheim at the Disneyland Hotel, June 9-12th!

NIXON!

Someday when we are at our 100th president, we are all going to realize that Nixon was a political, foreign affairs genius...a paranoid genius, but a genius nonetheless.

Screen Grabs: Your Guide to Free Local Internet - Cover Story - Washington City Paper

Screen Grabs: Your Guide to Free Local Internet - Cover Story - Washington City Paper

From the article:

Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library

The best place in the area for virtually unlimited, unmonitored computer use.

The real sweet spot is downstairs. Open 24 hours most days (closed between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday nights), the basement’s Gelardin New Media Center has roughly 65 computers with a basic version of Windows; the chairs are soft, the lighting not too bright, and the computers all come with keyboard wrist pads.

Also, get ready for sensory deprivation—if you spend too much time in the windowless Gelardin Center, it will start to feel like a dungeon.

Punks not dead, it's just moved on to the next generation

My nephew's new mohawk haircut.

Leslie Coffelt, my Grandfather's cousin, in an exhibit at the Smithsonian American History Museum

The description above his picture reads:
On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. During an exchange of gunfire, Officer Leslie Coffelt of the White House Secret Service police was killed. Because of his actions, and those of the other agents involved, the attack on Truman failed. Courtesy of Department of the Treasury, United States Secret Service.


His picture and the information about his heroic act are part of the exhibit The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Our family's TV at the Smithsonian American History Museum

My family had this exact model of TV when I was growing up. Now it is in an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Candyland board game now a museum artifact

Candyland board game...now a museum artifact at the American History Museum.

You know you are getting old when things from your childhood are appearing as artifacts in museums.

In the picture, my nephew is laughing at my stunned surprise.

Space 1999 and Star Wars lunch boxes museum display

Space 1999 and Star Wars lunch boxes in a display about the history of lunch boxes in the new cafeteria at the Smithsonian American History Museum.

You know you are getting old when things from your childhood are artifacts in a museum.

These lunch boxes are part of the Taking America to Lunch exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

New eye-level location of the Wright Brothers' plane at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Ed Keller Space Shuttle Flight Director for pretend

A cool Mission Control simulator at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Refocus area

On the wall of a school where my nephew had a basketball game.

Spider in the jungle on the way down from seeing Arenal Volcano

Arron's hand is behind the spider for scale.