A Very Special Christmas Greeting

Enjoy.

Pete

Drinking Out of Cups

If you haven't seen this before, you should.  Jeanine's daughter Bayley
pointed it out.  Inexplicably hilarious!  "Drinking Out of Cups":    J(
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCV2L0c6K0

"Origin of Species"

From Jer.

Origin of Species Chris Smither performing a song from his new album 'Leave the Light On" check him out at www.smither.com

Hands Free - California Safe Driving Comedy Spoof

Hands Free - California Safe Driving Comedy Spoof Skyler Stone horsing around with his new Hands Free phone. This is a "comedy spoof" by Skyler Stone about the new Hands Free Driving law in California as of July 1st, 2008. What will you do with your two free hands now? Written by Skyler Stone Starring Skyler Stone Directed by Brandon Kraines Produced by Michael Abbott -
© 2008 YouTube, LLC

TessWeb

Here's a general link to our online albums -- including lots of pix of Tess, updated every couple of weeks.

Wedding song, by Eric Kloss

"Think not that you can direct the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
- Kahlil Gibran

Eric Kloss, Patrice's brother, wrote this song and performed it at our wedding.

The title is a reference to a quote from Kahlil Gibran that was on our wedding program.

Found Worthy

On a course for no matter what
She was put right where she started
Sliding through as smooth as chrome
She never knew her sign
And so went across a telephone line
That she thought belonged somewhere in a poem
As she saw sand storms and sea foam
She found worthy

He opened up when his eyes were shut
Moves were afoot, so he looked around
A far cry for a way home
He didn’t think too much
Always meant to stay in touch
With all the things he has never known
Between some Catskills and catacombs
He found worthy

At times and times again
It will lead you on when
You’re at this point aware
It’s everywhere

Directors yelling cut sometimes
Or chimes of freedom flashing
That don’t follow what goes around
When you’ve found worthy in the present day
I guess you’ve struck gold in your own way

At times and times again\
It will lead you on when
You’re at this point aware
It’s everywhere

Tess Sophia Machalek

Tess's Birth

Rob & Patrice's Wedding

Here's an album of our wedding. Click on the picture to see enlarged versions of these pix.


Click HERE for a better view of the slideshow.

Re: Gwill and Ben Fun-To-Know

Dad,
Attached is the picture I was working on when you called. It's
for our friends Bill and Gwen Fontenot, who live here on Pensacola Beach.
It's for their 32nd wedding anniversary. We call them the
"Fun-To-Knows". Bill recently sold his construction company for several
million dollars. In this picture, you see their second and current house
on the beach with the "Camp Love" tent in the foreground on the right,
which later blew away. The words are the lyrics to the song "Hurricane"
by Neil Young. Bill said the picture was "awesome" when we gave him a
framed print last night. Gwen is in Carencro LA taking care of her
parents this week.

J( *}

Jerry's List

(from Andrea)

Jerry stayed with us one evening this week as he recovered from his cataract surgery.  At one point in the evening he and jon spent some time alone on the boat and he shared his list of things he'd like to do yet in his lifetime.  I found the list tonight when we went for a boat ride and thought I'd share.

 

Buy a motor scooter (the adult mobility kind, not the teenage transportation)

 

Travel

    -    To Checho/Prague

    -    To Wilson, WY

    -    To China

    -    To Boulder for the Conference on World Affairs each year for the next 5 years (stay with Ken & family)

 

Meditate 3X per week for 20 minutes

 

Live Theater

Museums

Zoo

Fishing

   

Rob & Patrice's wedding

First images from the wedding, taken by Jack Shelton.

Double-click on any image for a screen-sized view -- these are high-quality/hi-resolution pix.

Fw: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY * Gautama Buddha

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else.
You are the one who gets burned.
                                                      -Gautama Buddha

Animator vs Animation

Just click on the link below, click on play, then leave the mouse alone.
Then sit back and enjoy a piece of IT creative brilliance.
Somebody spent A LOT of time here!!

Click here: http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

Gettysburgh - the PowerPoint

This is really funny.  Especially read the commentary by the author under "the making of" at the bottom of the homepage.

Stumbled across this online:

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

Location for Mom's 80th birthday?

El Caminito del Rey (The King's pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near lora in Malaga , Spain . The walkway has gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is only one meter in width, and over a 700-meter fall, and over time it has also lost its handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. Many people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years. After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances. However, adventurous tourists still find their way into the walkway.
The view and the music are almost like being in a video game...very cool!Oh yes... once you get to the website and click the 'Play' button - you must go full screen!! (see example below)

To watch the video - click here

Dark Side of the Moon Video Album

These are 5 videos a guy posted for the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" album. He constructed the video mostly from footage from a movie Jeremy clued me in on years ago called Koyaanisqaatsi (native indian for "World Out of Balance") and concert footage of Pink Floyd.

The most haunting part of this is unfortunately split between the end of Part 2 and the beginning of Part 3 -- it's footage of The Challenger exploding in 1986, in conjunction with "The Great Gig In The Sky."

Enjoy.

Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5

Watch him grow up!...

 

http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i136/headsetop/?action=view&current=madbush.gif

It's uncanny.  The ages match almost exactly!!!

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re: "We get to join in the mystery. . ."

 

UU Friends....I found this very special.

    Jerry Machalek

 

“we get to join in the mystery. . .” http://jesspages.net/bestofuu/03/we-get-to-join-in-the-mystery

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10 Machaleks

All 10 Machaleks at Machapalooza 2007 (Dad's 80th)

Shots of Babi and Pops and their handsome boys

 

It's a ... um.. ah...

We had our ultrasound today and found out Patrice is going to have a ... Human Baby! If anybody can look at these pix and see the gender, which the tech and the doctor seemed totally sure of, I'll shake their hand.

Conspiracy Theory Rock!

Not hilarious, but only because it's probably mostly true. Here are the lyrics:

Cute lil' smart girl. Can you point to Zimbabwe?

Derek 720

Derek's doing "720" on 45 foot jump at Keystone.