Minty Went to Princeton

Now I can tell everypony that I went to Princeton! What? No I didn't go there like, to school. but we went to visit. It's a very pretty college and very expensive to go to. Well, expensive to go... to school there. We just walked around for free!

Here's a random shot of an old building. The buildings are old but notice the modern air conditioning units in the windows! Click on the "Read more" for some more pictures!

Trees Growing Through Stuff

Post title says it all. We found enough pictures of trees growing through stuff to make a post out of, so um, hope you find it interesting?

This metal barrier looks like it's being gobbled up by the tree. I don't think trees have teeth but this tree would have lost them chewing on metal over the years. Don't chew on metal little ponies.

This tree looks like it's trying to twist around the fence. It would be neat to pose me next to a tree and get a picture of it growing around me? But I guess I don't have the patience to wait several years to get a neat picture.

This looks kinda gross as the tree grows sideways through this fence. So of course we get a picture of it haha. The tree was like "Oh sorry fence, you don't want to move? Okay I'll just grow around you then!" Get it, instead of "go" around it said "grow" around? It's a tree? Ah,... yeah. Well, until next time!

Spring Flowers

Out bike ridin' in the spring it's finally warm enough! Catching all of the flowers blooming. It's still a bit chilly but you only get a small amount of chances to get blooming flower pictures each year...

 Where's Minty in this picture? Okay I'm not hiding too well but yeah there's a bunch of flowers around me so it might take a little effort to find me. Click on the "Read more" for a couple more pictures we took!

Cold Day of Baseball

Hey everypony! Here we are at Citi Field, home stadium of the New York Mets baseball team!

Isn't it cool going to these big stadiums? If you haven't been to any I highly recommend it, they are very impressive and usually have fun things going on inside them! Like the baseball game today. Click on the "Read more" to see some pictures we took!

Puck Yeah!

The day after the Taylor Swift concert in New Jersey, we found ourselves in Norfolk, Virginia at a minor-league Hockey game! Not nearly as big as the concert venue, the Norfolk Scope is still a big place and today it was filled with ice to have fun in. A little bit of me wanted to build snowponies but it wasn’t that kind of ice…

Here’s a souvenir we bought. The home team is the Norfolk Admirals, they were playing the Syracuse Crunch tonight. Can you believe the seats we had?! Right next to the protective “glass!” You can’t get any closer than this! Click on “Read more” for more pictures from the game

Stay Stay Stay

Concert day! Here we are at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. On a particularly "Good Friday" to see... dramatic pause.... Taylor Swift!

Check out the buildings reflecting off the glass. This place seats about 13,000 ponies and was sold out tonight. Maybe one day I'll figure out how to include music or video into this blog, but for now, click on the "Read More" to check out some concert pictures and maybe play some Taylor Swift music yourself?

Never Bored

Hanging out with my friend where he works. One particular morning there was not much work to be done, so of course we had to pony-up the place and find something to entertain us. If anybody in management is reading this and can break the barrier of internet-blogging anonymity, this was all MY idea. Your actual employee was working hard while I was the one playing around.

 

These are bobbin cores. I won't get all technical here, but they are used in sewing machines. We keep them so that they may be recycled (yay recycling!) The little dark band around the end is a tiny magnet. Not a very strong magnet but still, magnets equals fun!

 

After spilling them out and messing around a bit, it became apparent that they can connect together in 2x2 squares that can then be stacked up. After a few failed attempts at stacking them all at once, we tried making smaller stacks...

So here is the victory of the entire jar stacked up. It wasn't easy. It was coincidence that the jar had a multiple-of-four number of cores. You can do the math and count them if you are curious about how many bobbin cores  fit in a 2-inch diameter x 2 1/2 inch tall jar.

Shortly after taking this picture we got a ton of work and were mega-busy the rest of the day. Yeah. Busy. Not slacking at all. I said NOT slacking.