# Thursday, September 04, 2008
posted by: Martin Criminale

Give a kid the Think Geek catalog and they go wild...

Today I got home and found Cameron in the garage building his own Annoy-a-tron.

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He actually had a buzzer that he attached to a piece of 2x4 and then taped a battery to the thing, screwed on a handle and constructed a trigger our of aluminum foil. Then of course it got the "ray-gun silver look" duct tape treatment. Nice.

Did I mention it was loud/annoying as hell? Oh yes, mission accomplished for sure.

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# Friday, December 14, 2007
posted by: Martin Criminale

Remember when you were 13? Stuff like getting dirty, skipping your shower and carving things with sharp knives were what you did. It's what you were about.

And playing with fire.

Cameron is no different.

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Nice.

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# Sunday, December 02, 2007
posted by: Martin Criminale

Just this morning I was exercising outdoors and the sun was peeking through the clouds. Now my neighborhood is under 4" of snow. What do you do when it snows? You go play in it. I love this!

When Cameron and I arrived at TT Minor Park these two guys were already rolling a HUGE snowball around the playfield. The way it was picking up snow it looked like they were rolling up carpet or something.

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You know how much that snowball weighs? A lot!

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While they got to work on the center piece Cameron started packing a snowball by hand.

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Here they are staging the middle piece.

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Cameron helped by building the head.

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So, if the middle section is too heavy to lift onto the base, what do you do? You build a ramp of course! When they were originally trying to lift it up I made the comment that it looked like the Atlas Stones event from the World's Strongest Man competition. They laughed. A little. And then got back to building the ramp.

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And then you roll the damn thing up!

Nice. Now you just need to fill in the gap between the middle and the base a bit so the middle section won't roll off the base and you're good to go.

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At this point my hands were numb and bloodless so I had to head home. Cameron hung around and helped these guys put the head on top and make some arms. Now that's the holiday spirit.

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# Wednesday, November 14, 2007
posted by: Martin Criminale

Anyone who has had a childhood knows what Mad Libs are. And anyone who has a kid between the ages of 8-15 knows who Strong Bad is. Today Cameron showed Shelley and I some Strong Libs. I was howling!

Plus it sure beats the heck out of watching the Trogdor video for the eight thousandth time...

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