The Maxson Homepage on the WWW
If you ever need or want a way to use individual pictures to spell things, take a look at this tool. it uses the flickr api to find photos that spell the word/words that you want. I spelled my last name and my domain name. neat.
Google is digitizing old newspapers. it probabaly has libraries up in arms (and those who do microfilm) but it is a good idea. Especially if they can digitize the text and not just do images.
Is Lance going to return to Cycling
[Update 09-11-2008 19:26:49] There are more stories out. Go here for a summary.
[Update 01-21-2009 09:27:08] More information can be found here.
[Update 2013-01-18 06:58:05] Lance has admitted to doping.
Can you believe it….she just walked out on us!?!
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Well, along with our pictures, we just uploaded a huge amount of video. So here are some Lydia videos:
She likes (occasionally) to run around with stuff over her head. We call it her playing ghosty. Anyway, here are two videos of her playing ghosty:
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Here is a video of Lydia playing with socks on her hands. I did this one day just to see what she would do with them.
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And finally, here is Lydia brushing her teeth. Now before all you dentist types out there get upset, we brush them good after she gets done.
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Last week one of Cyndi’s friends sent us a care package. Part of what was in there were some vienna weenies for Lydia. Over the weekend she had her first can. As always, she loved them (and so did I. I snuck one in. With some ritz-like crackers, it was awesome).
All of these videos happened here around Cacak. It took me a few days to get them off the camera and upload them to google. On to the show……
It hasn’t rained–really rained–in quite some time. It did sprinkle one day. I was waiting on language classes (I had been around town and didn’t want to get wet so I went to the school early). As it was raining, I noticed that the water was evaporating just about as fast as it was falling. I took a video to try to show everyone. Once it was uploaded, it doesn’t look nearly as good as it did live. I decided to put up two versions of it….one from google video and the other the original file. You’ll have to wait for the second one to fully load (sorry, I don’t have streaming):
First from google video:
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The second local:
http://media.maxsons.org/20080903_RainInCacakEvaporating.mp4
download the file from here
A few days ago, one of the other Americans in town had a son who had a birthday. There is a go-cart track in town that we went to. It cost 450 dinars (about 9 dollars) to ride for 10 minutes. But, these weren’t the detuned US putsy go-carts. These things were fast. If there had been enough room, you probabaly could have fone a donut. And we didn’t have to wear a seat belt or helmet. And no one got hurt. Take that nanny goverment! Anyway, here is the video:
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This last one is of a random fireworks display. I was sitting at my desk last night working on the computer when I heard fireworks. That is something fairly standard here and random (people will just shoot them off. I wish I knew where they bought them from….I would have for the 4th!) so I didn’t think anything about it. However, when they kept going and going, I got up. I happened to grab my cell phone and took a movie of the last half of the show. It was amazing. I’ll ask one of my friends today if they knew what was going on.
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By the way, these videos are licensed under the same creative commons license this website is.
[Update 09-07-2008 09:00:00] I took the local video off. It took way to long to load. I left the download link up though.
[Update 09-07-2008 12:29:31] I found out that one of the daughters (or daugher) of one of the richest guys in town got married. The fireworks were at the wedding. WOW!
I found this picture while looking on flickr today. It is either of or from a mountain near our city (here is a picture of the mountain I took from our apartment ). I like the snow. We can only hope for several meters of the white stuff come winter!
Volio bih mngo pada sneg!!!!!
picture from tequieroserbia .
Well, this took forever to post. About 2 months ago, there was a group of college kids in Serbia to visit. We had them over one night (two or three times actually). This night, we played a game of Kill Dr. Lucky. Kelly won (finally). We thought a picture was in order. The yellow Carcassonne Meple was Dr. Lucky this time.
