Raiders of the Lost Blog http://www.tomsimpson.org It's opener there in the wide open air Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:37:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pig tails! http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/07/02/pig-tails/ Cookie Monster on the Colbert Report Awesome!!! "Me the Robert Downey Jr. of cookies..." http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/07/01/cookie-monster-on-the-colbert-report/ Teatime with Godzilla Maddie loves to play tea, and one of her favorite tea buddies is Godzilla, of course!  See more pictures And here's her learning how to walk over a step without crawling: http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/26/teatime-with-godzilla/ Russian Winnie the Pooh From the Soviet era, pretty trippy! http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/24/russian-winnie-the-pooh/ Use Flickr images as your wallpaper on a mac Like the Windows utility I posted, Desklickr will automatically change your photos from a source such as Flickr.  Keep the latest pictures of Maddie on your desktop! http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/15/use-flickr-images-as-your-wallpaper-on-a-mac/ Playing in the laundry Maddie thought she'd help out with the laundry last night.  What a helper!  See a few more pictures of her helping out. http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/13/playing-in-the-laundry/ Set your Windows wallpaper with Flickr images There's a great freeware application I found today called John's Background Switcher. It lets you change your desktop wallpaper automatically, and you can pull images from Flickr and other photo sources. I have it set to grab any of my photos tagged with "madeline" as the background.  Pretty ... http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/10/set-your-windows-wallpaper-with-flickr-images/ Belmar Seafood Festival We went to the annual Belmar Seafood festival this weekend. Tasty food, hard to find parking, but the sea breeze made a 95 degree day feel like 75. Lots of pictures, of course! http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/08/belmar-seafood-festival-2/ Trying on Daddy’s shoes Yeah, they're a little big on her.  See more pics, plus Maddie's first time eating corn on the cob! http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/03/trying-on-daddys-shoes/ See 1920s New York City traffic This is an awesome clip of Harold Lloyd, silent film star, driving around Manhattan as a cab driver. This was shot entirely on location in NYC in the 20s, released in 1928. He even gives Babe Ruth a ride to Yankee Stadium! Crazy stuff. http://www.tomsimpson.org/2008/06/03/see-1920s-new-york-city-traffic/