Tuesday, September 11, 2007

J-Dog hits double digits

In celebration of Jake's birthday we've decided to publish one of his homeschool essays written during his exile in Thailand. His thoughts on electricity combine a unique approach to history with a "let's just go this over with" attitude.


In my opinion the best invention is electricity. If we didn't have electricity we wouldn't have warm water. That means that when we took showers there would only be coldwater. Plus, lights use electricity so we would have to use candles all the time. I think Beethoven went blind because he wrote all his music with only the light at a candle.

Air conditioning also runs on electricity. I am living in Thailand right now and my family gets hot a lot. So not having the A/C would be bad. Our refrigerator runs on electricity all our food would go bad. My sister and I like to play Gamecube and that uses the TV. The TV uses electricity. You can also get information from the news. For instance if there is a tornado they can tell you the drills for safety. We use electricity every day so I guess its pretty important.

We hired Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic to put on a show for Jake's birthday. Sure, the special effects were incredible. But the characters had no chemsitry and the storyline felt stilted and predictable.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

MaCK aTtACk!

http://members.shaw.ca/spenolange3/MacStrate_80s.jpg

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Kelly said...

Wow, Spenolange, how can we thank you enough?!! Since September 2003 we've been wanting to see Mack Strate in his early years. It's been a long wait, but it was s-o-o-o-o-o worth it.

It's hard to say what was the best part, but I myself have to go with the bottom half of the picture. The pegged pants and sneakers (sorry, runners) with no laces. Jared loved the cowboys hat, necklace and wick-a-wick-a-wick-a groove that is the Mack Strate.

Thank you. You're clearly the best brother-in-law in the world.

By the way, are there any copy rights on this photo that we should know about?

Anonymous said...

You are welcome.

I was tempted to drop this photo into flash, and create a nice animation which would slowly reveal the 'Mack' from the bottom up...I think most would assume the lanky legs and pinned up pants to be none other than someone of the female persuasion (if you don't beleive me, just pull a sheet of paper covered over the photo upward - you'll see exactly what I mean). Alas, it isn't the red or white or black or brown - from the boogie down - it is the wik-wik-wack MC himself.

And there is plenty more where that came from...ehehehehehHEHHAHAHAHHHAHAHAAAA-BUWHAAHAAAAAHAA!!!!

No copyrights, publish at will. Create that before and after T-shirt and mass produce them in Thailand for cheap.