Merry Christmas 2011! So what did you get for Christmas this year? Was it something good? Something unexpected?
This year, my 2 year old daughter and 4 year old niece gave me their Transformers toys! Simple as they are, these Transformers heads are the coolest toys that ever came with any fast food “kid’s meal” — they actually transform! Watch the video below to see them in action. Subscribers welcome!
Whenever I find something cool, I start thinking of story ideas I can make a video from. Something as simple as a kid’s toy can spark an idea that snowballs into video. For example, the idea for the video below came to me while we were out Christmas shopping for my nieces and nephew. Check it out!
When I bought my Macbook Pro earlier this year, I opted to go with just 4GB of pre-installed RAM to get my Macbook at a lower price. 4GB of RAM is pretty good, but to maximize my Macbook Pro’s potential, I decided to upgrade it to 8GB last night… on my own! This was very scary to do for a few reasons;
I’m not a hardware guy at all
I don’t know what I’m doing because of the reason above
Any hardware tampering voids the manufacturer’s warranty
… so I decided to upgrade the RAM on my own, HA! I was nervous beyond description but, you know what? It was actually very intuitive, very simple, and not bad at all! Just in case I ruined anything, I decided to document my little operation with a couple cameras and, since nothing bad happened on my very first try, I decided to put together a “how-to” video on RAM installation. Here’s the video.
I guess it’s due to a common annoyance and people are looking for a solution, but it still amazes me that a video as uninteresting as this one has over 5300 views (at the time of this posting).
Basically, it is a piece of paper rolled into the shape of a funnel and inserted into a jar with some fruit in it. Obviously, the fruit attracts the flies — they find their way in but can’t get back out. It’s pretty funny that a trap as simple as this works so well. The next time you have a problem with fruit flies, try this out and you’ll be surprised!
As evidenced in the latest “The CHAO TIMES” VLOG below (TCT), this year’s “Black Friday” was pretty uneventful. Instead of fighting the crowd and getting pepper sprayed on Black Friday, one of my clones came over and helped me and my daughter rake leaves. Dad also got a nice surprise from the FedEx delivery guy… the iPhone 4S! Both mom and dad are officially smart phone users now! As for the shake weight reference, I included it in the clip just because it’s amusing to me how suggestive this piece of equipment is.