Author: UncleLar

The head orphan and eldest surviving member of the Fall Family Clan.
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The Chicago Fall Clan may well be aware of this

but I suspect that this just might be new news for those of us outside the Windy City.

Last week, the Black Eyed Peas pulled off an incredible stunt for Oprah Winfrey’s block party kicking the fall season for her show. Ostensibly, Oprah was unaware that will.i.am of the Peas solicited the services of a flash mob to help create this 21,000 strong dance scene. It’s pretty neat.

While watching the girl dancing solo at the beginning of the song, I couldn’t help but think of another front row dancer in a video, specifically Courtney Cox performing in Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing in the Dark video twenty five years ago.


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I know this is a little gimmicky…

but I sometimes wonder if some of our Congressional Senators/Representatives can even ID all of our 50 states much less draw a map of them. Smart of him to start out with his home state too.

A little behind the scenes research indicates that Franken had been doing this for years. I’ve found photos and videos of him doing it on at least two other occasions. I’ve also seen a claim that he first did this for an SNL skit back in the nineties when he was “lamenting” the poor budget that he had been given to do his political commentary stating that he was forced to draw his own political maps.

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Keep your fingers crossed for me…

I dread the opening of the new school year. It’s the time that I am most vulnerable to coming down with something. All I can figure it that all the kids coming back from PSU from their summer vacation bring new bugs back with them. Classes started two weeks ago and sure enough I’m battling (hope it’s not swine flu).

Two of the last three years I managed to dodge a bullet by basically shutting down doing much of anything once I sense something coming on (usually it’s with a slight cough, throat tingle, or nasal congestion). Of course, last year, not only didn’t I dodge the bullet but I got hit with a cannonball.

I’m in shutdown mode now. I’m battling a tingly throat along with a slight cough. Knock on wood that it doesn’t explode into another asthma bout (or worse).

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My favorite iPhone commercial

As someone who’s gone overboard installing iPhone apps (I have over 100), I got a big kick out of this “commercial”.

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My phone continues to amaze me

I am dumbfounded by how good some of the videos that I shoot turn out. It’s unbelievably dark in this bar and there should be no way that a video could be shot there, much less a one taken with a PHONE.

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Seeing is not believing

One of the better optical illusions I have ever seen

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“Whiteout”

Warner Brothers has a movie coming out this September called Whiteout. Some one has taken the trailer for the movie and turned it into a video hyping Penn State’s upcoming football season.

Here’s the PSU version of “Whiteout”

I’ll say one thing for the PSU football program. They really know how to turn an night football game into an experience. This year’s designated Whiteout game will be against Iowa at 8PM on September 26th. Several of my Iowa friends are coming in for the game and I’m very much looking forward to it.

Here’s a link to the original movie trailer.

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Does this look like fun or what?

This is Erin, a friend of mine that I met on one of my Wisconsin trips. We’ve kept in touch through the years. She’s a pilot for Republic Airlines, doing commuter hops around the Midwest but recently decided to get a different perspective of flying.

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How did they do this?

Some amazing technology at work here.