12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 6

[lbgraves]

OK I will just have to tell everyone mine! Can't have any fun around you guys can I?

I got a HUGE box of random items from Oriental Trading Company that have one special theme that is close to my heart: SMILIES!!!!!!!

I have pinwheels, pencils, stickers, pens, key chains, hats, erasers, stickers (including some pirate smilie stickers ), etc.. all with a smilie theme!

Alas there are no banana smilies.... but I think they will be fun anyway. They are at least yellow....

OK Lisa - add it to the website the secret is out. How many of you already guessed when you saw the OT catalog?

That is perfect for you!!!

 

[lbgraves]

In case you didn't already notice, the tshirt design with the green background & rope border is on the first page of the website.

 

[kimerinc]

Thanks for the advice John but believe me I am not planning on doing this stuff just to get it off some checklist. We love to travel and I want my kids to experience so many things. Not because we think they need to but because we want to share these experiences as a family with them. These are places that DH and I really want to go and we want to share that with our kids. Of course I don’t envision us dragging our kids around on all-educational trips but if we do fun stuff like the zoo or an aquarium and they get something educational out of it then that is all the better as far as I am concerned.

We know we will go back to WDW and cruise at least a few more times before the kids leave home (God willing) but for some of our other trips I would prefer they are old enough to understand and enjoy it a little more. We really just need to do a lot of the advance planning so we can afford to do a few of things with them. Some of my favorite and happiest memories with the kids have been during our trips. We are away from the stresses of home and work and we get to spend days at a time together as a family. With us working full-time and the kids in full-time daycare we don’t often get that chance unless we do go away somewhere. We can and do spend quality time together here at home but it seems more special and fun if we are discovering new places/things together at the same time.

My list is of the place I want to go before I die, and because i am such a woos I take DD everywhere I go, ok not to Jackson Hole on our annual anniversary trip (My parents did bring her up on the last day last year though). DH has to travel A LOT and sometimes he gets to go to really cool places, like PJ Toronto last year. So DD and I went to and we got to see Niagra Falls. I got to check that one off my list of things to see before I die.... Now, how can I get him to have an conference at the Taj Mahal....

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

OK I will just have to tell everyone mine! Can't have any fun around you guys can I?

I got a HUGE box of random items from Oriental Trading Company that have one special theme that is close to my heart: SMILIES!!!!!!!

I have pinwheels, pencils, stickers, pens, key chains, hats, erasers, stickers (including some pirate smilie stickers ), etc.. all with a smilie theme!

Alas there are no banana smilies.... but I think they will be fun anyway. They are at least yellow....

OK Lisa - add it to the website the secret is out. How many of you already guessed when you saw the OT catalog?

neat Becka!!! Very appropriate!!!

 

[kimerinc]

Okay I have been thinking about this , since we are going to be making a spectacle of ourselves on Pirate Night (well probably everynight ) I was thinking ...How many of you have actually gotten your DH's thier costume ??? Wouldnt it be great if we had the whole cast of POTC ??? We have enough people in our group that could look like all the charcters and it wouldnt take that much ...there is so much out there on the internet now through ebay and other resources that almost everyone could be one of the charcters ...So ...Heres just a little list that maybe you could add your hubby to one of the names ...Now I know the kids are going to dress like me and of course Davy Jones and ETC ..I would just like the Adults to try ..LOL

Captain Jack Sparrow - Me

Elizabeth -

Will Turner -

Captain Barbosa -

Commadore Norrington - (drunk Version would be funny)

Davey Jones -

Pintell -

Ragetti -

Mr. Gibbs-

Tia Dalma -

Bootstrap Bill -

Governor Swann -

Did I Miss any of the Other main Charcters ???? So if you have any questions about the charcters or need pictures to help make a costume I will help in anyway ..

I don't remember any fat women in that group, but I have the same costume your wife had last year only in about 20X the size. Wasn't there a sea beast or something?

 

[DisneyVegas1]

Hey I Just noticed I made my 500th post ...

 

[DisneyVegas1]

I don't remember any fat women in that group, but I have the same costume your wife had last year only in about 20X the size. Wasn't there a sea beast or something?

Oh STOP !!!!

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

In case you didn't already notice, the tshirt design with the green background & rope border is on the first page of the website.

Lisa - didn't someone mention getting the font without the shadow? It doesn't show up clear when printed. Is it an actual file that we can pull down and edit if we don't want the shadow?

 

[DisneyVegas1]

In case you didn't already notice, the tshirt design with the green background & rope border is on the first page of the website.

I noticed

 

[lillygator]

are there instructions? Is this what we add to the back of our shirt?

 

[TanaL]

Oh yeah....DS dressed in brown today..no problems! Thursday is purple...he doesn't own purple! He has one Easter/Spring shirt with light purple around the bottom. Maybe I will have to put that on him.

My Kids want me to make lunch...can you imagine...wanting to be fed at 12:15!

Brandi -- I can't imagine there will be a whole lot of boys who have much purple in their wardrobes... unless they are MN Vikings fans!

 

[kimerinc]

10:45 am MacCentral: we HOPE to take this international in 2007. (see the difference?)
10:42 am Engadget: So: Movies
near DVD image quality
Dolby surround audio
Same day as DVD
Pre-order with one click
Usage rights = same as TV shows
Parental controls extended to include MPAA ratings
International in 2007
10:42 am Engadget: iTunes 7 is available today as a free download from apple.com
10:41 am iLounge: iPod boxes now show Pirates of the Carribbean
10:41 am iLounge: U.S. now, International in 2007.
10:41 am iLounge: Dolby surround audio in videos
10:40 am iLounge: Near DVD quality. Same encoding as TV shows at 640x480. If you have a 5mb/s broadband connection, it will take approximately 30 minutes to download a movie
10:38 am iLounge: most titles will be 9.99
10:38 am iLounge: New releases 12.99 preorders and first week, after that up to 14.99
10:38 am iLounge: 75 films online today, more every week and month
10:37 am iLounge: Today, films from Walt Disney, Pixar, Touchstone, Miramax. (all Disney owned)
10:37 am iLounge: Tv shows - started with 1 network, 5 shows.
10:36 am iLounge: movies
10:36 am iLounge: "one more thing..."
10:34 am iLounge: Video on screen now markedly higher resolution
10:33 am correction: it appears as though the nano's packaging is 52% smaller, not the nano itself.
10:31 am iLounge: Demo of iTunes 7
10:31 am 10:27AM Engadget: You can update your iPod from right inside iTunes now, you don't need to go to Preferences. You can say, "I want to sync the 10 most recent unwatched episides of all my TV shows."
10:30 am Engadget: Now, all of this video is encoded with the best encoding in the world, H.264. We've been distributing it at 320x240. Today, we're going to take that up a notch to 640x480. That's 4x the resolution. iTunes 7 also has seamless playback for video.
10:30 am iLounge: you can now sync between multiple computers using an iPod, as long as both are authorized on the same account
10:28 am Engadget: Today we're introducing the biggest single enhancement: iTunes 7
You say "it looks the same," but it isn't
[the left nav is more cleanly organized without being radically different]
We've added a View switch, a 3-position switch. we've added a 2nd view called album view, so you can scroll through your music library and look at it by album. what if you ripped your CDs and don't have the covers? Today we're announcing free missing album cover art for all the music in your library if you have an itune acct. itunes will automatically download it for free
but there's something even better. that's the third view. it's called Cover Flow view. [LOOKS LIKE FLIPPLING THROUGH YOUR CD RACK]
10:28 am iLounge: TV shows are now encoded at 640x480 (h264), up from 320x240
10:27 am iLounge: iPod updater appears to be now integrated into iTunes
10:26 am iLounge: 3 different views of iTunes, list view, album view (with art and tracks), then "cover flow view" lets you rapidly find what you want by album cover
10:25 am iLounge: iTunes will give you cover art for free if you are missing cover art (thanks Steve)
10:24 am iLounge: Store now has own section, devices have their own sections, playlists too
10:24 am iLounge: Source list now includes library with sep libraries for all forms of media
10:23 am iLounge: iTunes 7 today
10:22 am Engadget: (for nano) $149 2GB ipod is aluminum only, $199 4GB has colors, $249 8GB is black only

10:21 am iLounge: metal body, 1 model (1GB), $79, ships in october.
10:18 am iLounge: iPod Shuffle is now 2nd generationl size of iPod Radio Remote
10:17 am iLounge: All models are 52% smaller in volume than previous nano. new charger, new armband, new lanyard
10:16 am iLounge: 8GB is $249 in all colors
10:16 am iLounge: 4GB is $199 in all colors but black
10:16 am iLounge: 2GB is $149 in silver only
10:16 am iLounge: 3 models, but with double storage capacity at each model (and varying colors available)
10:15 am iLounge: New software just like standard iPod
10:14 am iLounge: 24 hour batter life
10:14 am iLounge: Green silver black blue pink
10:12 am iLounge: Nano is now, as rumored, Aluminum and in colors
10:12 am iLounge: 249 and 349 with 60GB and 80GB capacity
10:10 am iLounge: games will work on 5G ipods
10:09 am iLounge: games for sale off iTunes for $4.99
10:08 am iLounge: new iPod software features: instant searching, new games (Bejeweled, Cubis 2, Mahjong, Mini golf, pac man, tetris, texas holdem, vortex, and zuma)
10:07 am iLounge: iPod is getting enhanced today. 60% brighter with brighness control, 3.5 hours video playback (up from 2 hrs... big version goes to 6.5 hours), new headphones, gapless playback
10:06 am iLounge: iPods. 3 iPods: iPod, Nano, and Shuffle
10:05 am iLounge: talks about iPod sports kit. Foot Locker is blown away by sales. 450,000 sales in 90 days
10:04 am the event appears to have begun
10:03 am iLounge: theater is filled to capacity (755 person theater). Podium on the right, a computer setup on the left of the stage (looks like an iMac)
9:52 am iLounge: Folks are crowding to get up-front seats. (wonder why?)
9:51 am iLounge: Griffin Technology, Belkin, Incase and Nike are in attendance.

Yeah WUT WOOO..

 

[klineyqueen]

I already have DH's pirate stuff. It is a simple outfit. A long sleeved black poet shirt with the lacing at the neck. He wears black jeans with it. He wore a red sash with it last year but we could get a couple of accessories to add to it. Where would he fit in?

We already have our costumes. I already got DH and DS a Jack Sparrow costume. Eliza and I are "generic" pirates....we match though...it is cute and piratey!

 

[klineyqueen]

It isn't a Pirate Flag...its' our Queen's Flag!!!

I love the idea of a queen flag!!!!! That is so cool!

 

[lbgraves]

I noticed

Todd, do you still have the file with the best green background to take out the shadow? If you can fix that & send it to me in a JPEG file I can just add the rope border on my computer & replace it. Also, you can adjust the font size.

Also, you didn't notice ANYTHING else about the site???

 

[klineyqueen]

OK I will just have to tell everyone mine! Can't have any fun around you guys can I?

I got a HUGE box of random items from Oriental Trading Company that have one special theme that is close to my heart: SMILIES!!!!!!!

I have pinwheels, pencils, stickers, pens, key chains, hats, erasers, stickers (including some pirate smilie stickers ), etc.. all with a smilie theme!

Alas there are no banana smilies.... but I think they will be fun anyway. They are at least yellow....

OK Lisa - add it to the website the secret is out. How many of you already guessed when you saw the OT catalog?

OOOOHHHHHaaaaaWWWWW!!! That is so cool! It sounds like a lot of fun!

 

[klineyqueen]

I don't remember any fat women in that group, but I have the same costume your wife had last year only in about 20X the size. Wasn't there a sea beast or something?

Kim - I am in the same boat...but don't think of it as fat....just a little fluffy!!!!!

 

[klineyqueen]

Hey I Just noticed I made my 500th post ...

COOL!!!!!

 

[lbgraves]

are there instructions? Is this what we add to the back of our shirt?

Yes, that will be for the shirt backs once Todd tweeks it just a bit. The rope border will help to eliminate the color difference since it will seperate it from the actual shirt. You need to get the dark iron on transfers though...right Todd?

 

[lbgraves]

Off to pick up the kiddos. Homework. Soccer. Figure out dinner. See you guys later!