MaisonBisson.com » cute http://maisonbisson.com A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 en hourly 1 Bringing Up The Cute Quotient Of This Blog http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11784/bringing-up-the-cute-quotient-of-this-blog/ http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11784/bringing-up-the-cute-quotient-of-this-blog/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 16:54:44 +0000 Casey Bisson http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11784/#bringing-up-the-cute-quotient-of-this-blog

If you ever tire of the kittens on Flickr, it turns out there’s no shortage of bunnies on YouTube.

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Vespa scooter with sidecar.

Greenstemstudios is selling a sweet-looking 1980 Vespa with sidecar.

In gleaming Cinder Red and House of Kolar Black, riding on white wall Continentals, “the scooter gets 60 to 70 miles to the gallon and can easily maintain 60 mph even with the sidecar attached.” The starting price is $3,750.

I’m plenty happy with my scooter, but this is very tempting.

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Ashton in Pool.

It’s an unseasonably warm and rainy January here in Warren, where warm actually means daytime highs of about 30 degrees and ’seasonable weather’ would be closer to zero. The point is that it’s the worst possible winter weather: the rain ruins the regular winter activities, and it’s still too cold to take up summer activities. Perhaps that’s why I take such comfort in this video of Ashton, even if it is the video that killed my Clie.

Context: August/September 2005, Atlanta.

Facts: My Clie shoots video. Kids were meant for video. Pools were meant for kids.

Plan: Put Clie in Zip-Lock bag, shoot video underwater.

Problem: Zip-Lock bags aren’t as waterproof as one might expect.

Result: great video of Ashton in the pool, a soggy Clie. Eventually: replaced with a Treo 650 (the Clie, not the kid).

The great thing about lo-fi video like this is that it gives kids of today the opportunity in 30 or 50 years to look back at images that are as strangely colored, grainy, and jumpy as the home movies our parents had. Videos of our youth are just filled with VHS smear.

Music by Bonobo, also at Amazon.

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