Big News from Sweden...

They say that a picture says more than a thousand words. Well, as you can se on the picture on the side here... Stina and I are going to be parents... (For those of you who can´t tell... You need to get glasses.. hehe)

Of course this is a big deal for us. We´re very happy about getting to be parents. My hope as the father is that the child will inherit most of his/her traits and talents from Stina... ;-) She´s just the best...

So far it´s all pretty new for us but we felt that we wanted to share this great news with all of you. We will visit the doctor on Wednesday to have our first real look at our baby. We won´t however ask them to determine whether it´s a boy or a girl. We want that to be a surprise.

If you visit hulldin.com we´ll keep you updated on how everything is going...

Over and out...

/M

Duluth

A few weeks ago Lucinda and I drove up to Duluth. It was a fun trip. Duluth is a bigger city that I thought it would be. I'd been to Duluth before, but I think it was like 15 years ago - so I don't remember much. Anyway, we stopped at the Jay Cook State Park and it was pretty amazing. There was a cool little river with all sorts of jagged rocks. There was a suspension bridge. And the leafs were amazing!

Check out the sweet view in this picture.

Pretty good, huh? Oh, and the river and trees are nice, too.

Well, I did it! I bought an up-dated steering wheel for my racing set up. Actually it is a wheel, pedals and gear selector set, and it is awesome! It's a Logitech G25. Steel and leather are what really set this bad boy apart from its fore-fathers. Oh, and a 6 speed gear box w/ clutch!
Pictures are of Bri trying it out. Dad was over a few hours ago to help me winterize my sprinkler system, and he went for a 'spin' in the new set up. "I can see how you could get addicted to that game" is what he had to say.

Conceptualize

I created a new website. I've realized that I really like concept stuff. I love seeing cool concept cellphones. Cool concept cars. Concept artwork. So, I figure it'd be cool to have a site where I could track my favorites and show 'em off. I figure there's got to be other geeks like me that like this kind of stuff.

And, maybe if I get productive I'll make some kind of way to blog about concept projects that I think up from time to time. My ideas aren't as cool as the stuff I'll usually write about, but to me they're good ideas. For example, I'd like to sketch up some plans to make a desk/table with a touch screen interface (so a person could work with documents like in real life - on a table, or maybe you could even play "board" games on the table/desk). I have a few little ideas like that, and I figure other people do too.

[Via conceptualize]

Jen & Lando

I just got an email from Jen (my sister). Looks like her and her husband have started their own blog. Check it out: http://trost-family.blogspot.com/

This post is about sewing, I swear!

Yeah, as most of you might know, Marla got a sewing machine a month ago. Check out what I made! A sweet little pillow! See, what happened is I made it full size... but once I washed it... well, you get the idea :-D Atleast some one uses it.

Paper Horse Power

So i figured since i'm on a paper craft kick that it would be cool to show some pictures of this. It's a Nissan R390GT which is the race car Nissan entered into the LaMans series a number of years back with great sucsess. This model was built using three sheets of paper and a color printer. Many hours later this was the end result. i started this project two or three years ago and finished it earlier this year. Since then i have started another vehicle... a Yamaha R1 race bike. much much larger and complex. i am sure it will take more years to finsh.
Rob