Okay, this is a totally cool interactive music video. You put in your childhood address and it becomes a part of the experience.

You have to use Google Chrome as your browser but it’s worth it (hey, it’s a pretty cool browser anyway). Chrome will open a bunch of windows when the video starts, but don’t freak out and close them…just wait…

Give it a try!

Heard the fireworks last night and realized I have already missed one day!

Dan from the band OK Go takes on Animal. What was he thinking?!

Here she's simply called "Mother."
(My grandmother is the little girl in white.)

Tonight, in preparation for a weekend visit to my grandmother’s half sister in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, I’ve been pulling census data from ancestry.com (thanks Candace!).

Tracking down my great-grandmother has been quite a task. There is the fact that she married four times (she outlived them all!). But much more troublesome record-wise is the various spellings of her one name while married to my great-grandfather.

For her first name they’ve got Minnie, Wilhelmina, and Wilkelmine. The last name I have found as Benlin, Renlin, Renton, Reuben, Rewlin, and Reulein. It’s really Reulin…I think.

The web site I’ve been working on so hard is now live at http://www.kaaswilson.com. It’s for my bro-in-law’s architecture firm. Check it out!

It is possible to eat too much watermelon.

As a gift to me, my dear friend Candace asked her sister Kyrie O’Connor to use my name on air during the taping of NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me here in Minneapolis on June 26. How cool is that?!?!

For those who missed it, here it is: