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Here’s a video from the Hoffman Video Vault.  Back when when I had a lion’s mane of a hair cut, Kate had machination of chopping it off.

For a friend’s Cancer Benefit Kate volunteered to cut my lustrous locks into a mullet. Powerless to say no, I agreed on the stipulation that it be done…..to Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairies*.  There was a brief period time where I looked a like like Dawg, the Bounty Hunter.

* We aren’t sure that music is Dance of The Sugar Plum Fairies, however it didn’t seem prudent to question a girl in a pink tootoo and with razors stashed in it.

This is probably the best musical ever.  An evil villain is the main character (played by Neil Patrick-Harris) and written by Josh Whedon.  Three Acts of amazingness.  Below, find Act One.  The rest of Dr Horrible can be found at Hulu.

While Kate was working on her lesson plan for teaching at work (some gibber jabber about hair color) I tossed together some videos on what I thought was “mission critical” tips for stylists.

Lesson One:

Lesson Two:

Hey! I named myself!

From our friend, redkev, an unfortunate victim of one who did not see the see moon walking bear.

Traffic safety aside, remember: Sometimes losing sight of the ball is a good thing. Or something.

Update:
New improved version here. Should play nicely on iPhone.

While I was migrating over varies elements of a productive computer my wife was touched by how well MBP and I hit it off. She shot this “video” of our “friendship”.

While I was migrating over varies elements of a productive computer my wife was touched by how well MBP and I hit it off. She shot this “video” of our “friendship”.
Update:
New improved version here. Should play nicely on iPhone.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

Messing around with some of the OSX developer tools, I made a quick widget for dashboard.
If you are using OSX 10.4 or later and want to have instant access to my one and only video from your dashboard, this is for you!

Download here

Let’s call this is a beta, with the usual cautionary remarks that this thing is raw and possibly pointless.

Consider yourselves warned

We have been holed up in Hue, which is smack dab in the middle of Vietnam.  This city was a the center of the old Vietnamese Empire prior to the French colonization in the 1880’s.  We are in the section of the city called the Citadel.  10km on a side this part of the town is seperated by a moat, huge walls, and ring impeneratable cyclo drivers yelling “WHERE YOU GO!”

The rain and mist makes gives this place a really exotic feel right now, very happy here.

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We are across the street from the Imperial Enclosure (more walls, old palace, and place called the Forbidden Purple City (snerk!)).

Today we hired a driver and went up past the old DMZ and checked out some of the war remnants.  Highlight, the Vinh Muoch Tunnels.  A sprawling series of tunnels dug by residents of the village to escape the heavy bombings from the US.  Since the weather is a little rainy the place was deserted, we were the only people there.  We wandered around unground in tunnels that I could almost fit in.  Kate boldly lead us up a “path” that turned into “a perilous washed out gully” which we slide down…becoming covered in red clay mud!  AWESOME!

We actually ended up outside the park by a quite a bit and had to walked around the barb wired outside and come back in the front gate.  Needless to say, the ladies selling stale mentos were quite amused.

We are off to Saigon again tomorrow.  Home on Monday, weird.

Tossed some more photos up on flickr

Most Surreal Part of the Day:

Quang Tri Church, a site of intense fighting after the North crossed the DMZ.  This place was on the side of highway 1.  The roof is long gone, but the walls and raised diases in the middle is in tact.  The place is covered in bullet holes.  Absolutely just peppered with them.  There are even a long line of them on the ceiling. 

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The world is very small. Please, enjoy for you very special video of driving in Dalat. Reflection from helmet catches most scenic view for you. Very gooood!

Dalat Crusing from longwalkhome on Vimeo.

More tales of travel. This time we speak of Weedy Greg, the smoked out eternal traveler of South East Asia.
I still haven’t found my voice on this stuff yet, luckily I did a video this time. I figure any narrative short fallings will be overcome by my raw masculine beauty.

Check out Look Ma, No Plans Part One

iphone version here

Photo retrospective of Joe’s life, his Love, and his many many offspring. Plus planes! Photos scanned by Rod, slideshow by Russ.

Recipe for a good 80 Years from longwalkhome on Vimeo.

You can download the video here for a better viewing experience and to watch at your own convenience.