welcome to spiceland.

We got 8 inches of snow last night, and Mike made a few videos, including a time-lapse video that shows the snow falling over a period of 5 hours.

We met my family outside Atlanta at Red Top Mountain State Park over New Years Day for our Christmas celebration. Here’s a little video from that.

Tru has had two loose teeth for about 3 weeks now, and she finally lost the first of them yesterday. The tooth fairy brought her $1.65 last night. Mom thought $1 was fine, but Dad thought the tooth fairy needed to give Tru all the change in her purse. Here’s a video from yesterday.

Tru started her second season of soccer today. We had practice from 5-6. Her team is being coached by a parent of one of her teammates last season. The coaches get to pick their players, and he picked Tru! Tru is very excited to have his daughter, Brianna, on her team again. They are The Purple Jaguars. My camera batteries were dead, so I didn’t get any pictures. I did get this one video, though. They only did drills today, though, so it wasn’t very exciting.

Aerogarden Timelapse

Erin got an Aerogarden for me for father’s day as a *big* surprise. It is an “indoor kitchen appliance.” More specifically, it is a microcontroller based hydroponic garden that is about a cubic foot. It sits on one’s counter and grows things. We have herbs and peppers in ours. For the first month, we set our DSLR camera up, pointed at the Aerogarden, and set it to take a picture once every 30 seconds. The video below was made from those pictures. Also, below you will find a link to an HD video that you can download.

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Here is the 720p HD version at 60 frames per second:
http://spiceland.org/media/timelapse720.avi

^^^ click the link above to download the HD version.

Robotic Baseball

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T-ball? Sports? Why learn to play when you can build a robot to play with your daughter? (just a joke of course)

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Above is a trailer for a new movie coming out soon. I thought it looked hilarious so I thought I’d share. Also, I wanted an excuse to try embedding a Hulu video

Bird Cam

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We installed a camera on our front porch. We have a bird that comes each year and makes a nest on the top of one of the columns of our front porch. We aimed the cam at him and installed some software that captures videos whenever it detects motion. Here is a short clip.

Here’s the video!

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