Chicken Cherry Cola

Little Known Fact: The ever-popular “Chicka Cherry Cola” does not actually contain any chicken. It is, however, the preferred soft drink of most domesticated birds.

“It goes great with escargot! Just sayin’...”

(Note: this picture and post was inspired by a request from my sister for a chicken. If anyone else has a request, feel free to email me or leave a comment!)

Hole in the Bucket

Happy "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" Day! I hope everyone celebrated in an appropriate (and responsible) manner. (I'm looking at you, Henry and Liza - we don't need the fire department called out again like last year!)

Robot Parts

One of the things I love most about my job is the opportunity to be creative with some pretty high-tech stuff. For example, I'm currently using Pro/Engineer (a 3D CAD program) to design interchangeable robot parts. The idea is that students during our summer camp would be able to customize their own robot by choosing from a selection of heads, bodies and legs, which we would then print out for them in our 3D printer. Anyhow, tonight I had some ideas for parts, so I sketched them out and called it a blog post...

Able & Baker

Able and Baker, you brave little monkeys

You boldly went forth where nobody had gone

You showed us that spaceflight was safe for a human

And helped usher in an exciting new dawn

On May 28, in the year ’59

You were strapped in a Jupiter, shot into space

Were you scared when you first heard the rocket ignite?

Did your little palms sweat, did your little hearts race?

Did you know that the others before you had perished

When rockets exploded before they were done

Or when they crashed down due to parachute failure

Or baked in the scorching New Mexico sun?

Of course not! I mean, they were just little monkeys

And really, they didn’t have much of a choice

But Able the rhesus and squirrel monkey Baker

Survived their ordeal, which made NASA rejoice!

And what an ordeal! At their peak in their capsule

The monkeys experienced 38 G’s

And while they arched up over 300 miles

Our little Miss Baker tried catching some zzz’s!

And so I say “Thanks” to our little space monkeys

The lessons you taught we were eager to learn

You made it look easy, so one final question:

I’m good as a monkey, so when’s it my turn?

Memorial Day

Addiction

I spent most of the day

Just clicking away

Zooming in on each building and sign

And it seems now I’m hooked

Cause this morning I looked

At the game GeoGuessr online

And if you don’t know

How the playing should go

There’s no place on the Earth you could hide

It’ll plunk you right down

In a field or a town

Using Google Street View as your guide

And what you must do

Is search for a clue

To determine just where you could be

You could be in the sticks

Or on Route 66

Or some island way out in the sea

Then you pick any spot

On a map that you’ve got

You get points for how wisely you choose

Now I’ve got to get back

Cause I’m on the right track

For a high score - there’s no time to lose!

Star Wars Memories

I was five years of age back in May

Thirty six years ago on this day

When a movie took me

On a life-changing spree

To a galaxy far, far away

So now, though the years have passed by

And I’ll love the first three ‘til I die

I can’t wait to behold

The new stories unfold

When the Disney folks give it a try*

(*Whoops, I meant “do, or do not” - everyone knows there is no “try”!)

National Escargot Day

According to my source (www.checkiday.com) today is National Escargot Day. I think they might just be making stuff up at this point, but it keeps supplying me with plenty of drawing ideas, so I'll stick with it for now. (It also says today is Brother's Day, and did I get a card or anything from my sister? No! But she did give me a nice mention on Facebook, so I guess I'll forgive her if anyone came here because of her. Leave me a comment so I'll know how much trouble she's in.)

Anyway, Escargot Day. Here's a little message a friendly snail asked me to post.

World Turtle Day

It's amazing how fast these things sneak up on us! Here it is, World Turtle Day once again, and I almost missed it!

"Are you a turtle?"

Laughing Puppy

Little Known Fact: Puppies spend a good portion of their day laughing at their owners while they’re away at work.

“We spend the rest of the time eating and taking naps! Suckers!”