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Happy Birthday, Big Finno!!

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Post date March 2, 2015
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Somehow—to our absolute shock—we’ve done seven full laps of the sun since our once-wee man made his debut. (“The days are long but the years are short.”) Happy birthday, our blonde & dimpled treasure!

Stay tuned for more photos & videos from the celebration, but in the meantime check out a gallery of the marvelous Lego-themed cake Mom-O crafted & Finn decorated, on which each member of the fam + Grandma & Grandpa Nack appear. Here, let’s have Finn explain it; just don’t tell him I shared this clip with you. 🙂

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Brotherly Calisthenics

How does one work off a couple of delicious sliders & fries obtained at a Movable Feast truck? Like this, of course. And a 1 and a 2 and…

Barreling

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Throwback Thursday: The Spatulists

Post author By The Nack Daddy
Post date February 19, 2015
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Young Finnster (age 18 months) rocks out with Dad-O and a delicious, dough-clad spatula. See also more photos from that day with Grandma Nack.

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SF Zoo Crew

We took advantage of President’s Day to make our first-ever visit to the San Francisco Zoo, meeting up with the guys’ longtime pal Magdalena & her family. Some fun bits:

While there we learned that some rhinos prefer to file down their horns (like the guy we named “Stumpy”) and that some owls’ ears are positioned asymmetrically on their heads (one high, one low) to help them hear creatures above & below them.
We cracked each other up by noting the absurdity of calling what amounts to a raccoon a “red panda” and then extending that “logic” to other animals. For example, we dubbed a house cat a “furry four-legged land octopus” and a flamingo a “soft-skinned pygmy rhino.” The more ludicrous, the better!
After being thwarted in previous owl-quests (e.g. at the Oakland Zoo), Henry was thrilled to see some real live owls, one of which was named Athena. He happily trundled home with a little stuffed owl by that name.

Here’s a gallery from the outing.

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Lucky papa Valentines

I’m so charmed to have gotten some excellent loot for Valentine’s Day—from the lads a custom-made bowl, and from Margot a trio of Lego minifigures depicting the boys & me as a boombox-wielding band! I’m the guy with spiky hair & stubble. 🙂

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Immersive Alcatraz

While we took our birdmen to the land of the Birdman, I snapped a couple of photo spheres: 360º images that you can explore by clicking & dragging with your mouse below. You can also see a short video clip showing dissident artist Ai Weiwei‘s giant Lego portraits of political prisoners at bottom.

Views: San Francisco Bay, California by John Nack

Views: San Francisco, CA by John Nack

A video posted by John Nack (@jnack) onJan 31, 2015 at 11:05am PST

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Turn that meat-frown upside down

Post author By The Nack Daddy
Post date February 3, 2015
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Must be Guys’ Night. 🙂

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Throwback Thursday: A well-lit looen

Post author By The Nack Daddy
Post date January 30, 2015
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I think I neglected to share Finn’s leonine antics from one year ago, so let me fix that now. 🙂

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His Cheetonic Majesty

You know those people (inevitably from Florida) who claim to see Jesus burned into their toast? Henry’s a bit like that, but he sees orange-clad Lego construction workers in his Cheetoes. 🙂

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Son & a Gun

“Sun’s out, guns out,” they say, but in foggy San Francisco, we have to go with “Sons out, guns out.” Here Henry explores the artillery at the Presidio.

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Retro sweetness: One sugared-up owl

Post author By The Nack Daddy
Post date January 12, 2015
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Oh hi, don’t mind me—I’m just enjoying multiple suckers at once. Why, do I seem different? 🙂 — From Halloween 2013

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Lighthouse Adventures

During our time in Mendocino, journeyed south to the Point Arena Lighthouse, then up to light at Point Cabrillo. Here’s a gallery from the outing, as well as (below) a couple of interactive 360º panoramas I captured. (You can click the icon in the upper-right corner of each to make it full screen, then drag to explore it.)

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All aboard the Skunk Train!

Post author By The Nack Daddy
Post date January 2, 2015
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The boys are, of course, insane for trains, so kudos to Margot for discovering the Skunk Train that operates out of Fort Bragg (the town just up the coast from Mendocino). The train winds its way through redwoods en route to an old logging camp that offers BBQ & knickknacks (but not BBQ’d knickknacks). We met some nice families along the way. A 3-year-old kid named Silas ended up lending his name to Finn’s little souvenir stuffed skunk (for which we devised the mnemonic, “He makes you sigh less”), and a couple from Fremont helped the boys squash pennies on the rails while keeping Henry from being squashed as well! Despite the cold & wind, Hen insisted that he & I stand outside for mile after mile, so he’s a bit overrepresented in the photos. 🙂

Here’s a gallery from the day, as well as some video highlights:

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An evening in Mendocino

Having really enjoyed our trip down the coast at Thanksgiving, the boys were super amped for another “Roadtrip, roadtrip!!” as they called it. Therefore on Sunday we took a drive in the opposite direction, heading north to Mendocino. I’ll post a bunch of other photos & videos soon, but in the meantime here’s a little gallery showing off the gorgeous sunset lighting we encountered upon rolling into town & exploring the bluffs. (Vertigo-inducing shots have been omitted to Grandpa Nack’s presumed relief. ;-))

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Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours, we wish you much love, peace, and (ideally Lego-fueled) happiness. 🙂

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Uvas Canyon Adventures

Following our torrential rains, the dudes & I explored the waterfalls of nearby Uvas Canyon. The boys even took turns rocking my big camera, so this set includes the first Finn-captured photo upload to Facebook! They were also keenly aware of things we could do to images after the fact (“Dad-O, take a picture & then Photoshop me falling off the bridge!” “Dad-O, will your Google friends make this into a little animation?”).

Stay tuned for the Photoshoppery, and in the meantime, here’s the gallery plus a short video below.

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Micronaxx + DSLR = Proud Paparazzo!

A video posted by John Nack (@jnack) on Dec 12, 2014 at 8:24pm PST

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Sons From The Big Chair

Anyone excited to drop in on Dad-O at Google & pound down some ice cream? Anyone, anyone? 🙂

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The 12 Bots of Christmas

Thanks to Auntie Laura for some fun new reads!

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La Familia de Finny

We were delighted to discover this little composition en Español in Finn’s backpack. It shows our immediate fam plus Liggett grandparents & Lingle cousins, each performing our characteristic activities (click for larger version).

Some translations:

Mom-O: Drawing
Dad-O: Working on the computer
Henry: Playing
Finn: Working at school
Auntie Laura: Being a teacher
Grandpa: Playing with kids
Grandma: Guitar (?)
Uncle James: Going to Safeway (!)
Patrick: Playing video games
Charlie: Playing

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We Like Sheep!

I’ve always gotten a goofy kick out of the line in Handle’s Messiah that says “We like sheep!” We sure did like some the other night when—thanks especially to Margot’s crazy skills with hot glue & cotton balls—our dudes were resplendent in sheep threads. Check out a gallery from their performance in Aesop’s Fables.

Special thanks to our pal Magdalena & her dad David for coming out to enjoy the show.

In the clip below, the Willow Glen Elementary sheep take us to the jungle—the mighty jungle!