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Fire!

Alex Sowieja — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:45:12 +0000

Just a few picture I took of the campfire. Nothing too special, but I liked them.

Fire

More Fire

And a few shots of the sparks with a bit of a time lapse.

Sparks

Sensing a Pattern Yet?

Fourth of July With the Family

Alex Sowieja — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:31:55 +0000

I think Independence Day is just about my favorite holiday. Traditionally we round up every relative that we can and have a weekend celebration at my family’s cabin in the Northwoods. There’s good food, good company, and fireworks on the Fourth. I took some pictures of various things, so let’s get some posts going!

First up is my sister Emma around the fire. One of my younger cousins brought her iPod Touch, and Emma commandeered it in order to play a generic version of Rush Hour. She got pretty into it and refused to pay attention to anything else. I don’t even think the camera’s flash at night got her attention for more than half a second or so.

Emma and the iPod

This is my Uncle Othmar. I really don’t think anything I could say would describe him better than this picture, so let’s just get to it.

Othmar

The pixelation on this one is by request of the cousin being blurred, but that’s okay because it’s Lisa in the background that makes it such an amusing shot. She claims to have not done it intentionally, and I certainly didn’t see it until I took the picture. Incidentally, that’s my Aunt Donna on the left. She’s married to Othmar.

A Menacing Grin

This is from when I learned my mom (Ginny) can still do a headstand from a pike position. it’s a picture of my mom doing a headstand from a pike position.

The Headstand Queen

And finally, my dad (Chuck) doing what he did a lot of that weekend, driving the boat while towing some relatives. There was much tubing, skiing, and kneeboarding.

Vroom Vroom

Flaming Trumpets?

Alex Sowieja — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:09:51 +0000

What do you get when an engineer is bored and has a trumpet and a thing of propane lying around? A trumpet that spits fire while you play it, of course. One of our orientation sessions this morning was “Broadway at Tech” which was talking about all the various visual and oral arts you can do. I’ll probably audition for the choir when that happens. Anyway, after that we were told there would be a “demonstration” in the parking lot. A couple of guys I was with and I went out and what do you know. It’s a flaming trumpet.

Flaming Trumpet 1

Flaming Trumpet 2

Flaming Trumpet 3