Letter Block Challenge

With a 13 month old at home, we have a set of 26 letter blocks at home. This evening I came up with a challenge for myself that took far too much of my time: Spell words with all the letters and leave as few as possible left over. The blocks can't be twisted to represent letters that have already been used.
My best so far is 5 blocks left over. Two hours before this post, my best was 6 left over, so obviously not the best use of my time.

New $100 bill

I'm always a fan of money redesigns... I'm looking forward to getting one of these new $100 bills in my hands:

From NewMoney

Above image is a full screen capture of: http://www.youtube.com/uscurrency

Sesame Street: Soliloquy On B

Patrick Stewart at his finest.

Inaguration Gigapan

Click on the image for a large screen capture of a small part of the gigantic 1474 megapixel stitched gigapan photo created by David Bergman.

Jump right to Yo Yo Ma taking an iPhone photo on the gigapan site...

No, it really wasn't photoshopped...

Turns out the photos I thought were fake really showed up in the live video of the debate:

Using a laptop from bed...

I've been wanting to build something like this for a while, and thanks to some tools I got as a gift and a bit of inspiration from the price of the product at lapdawg.com and its apparent inability to secure a laptop at this angle, I created an earlier stand with an inverted T shape that wasn't quite as stable as this newer version where I moved the attachment point to form a nice stable A frame without any bolts anywhere near the bed...

Bobby Ore Beginner Stunt Driving Class

It only took me five years to post the video of the stunt driving class I took....