There’s something to be said about the transcendent quality of joining in song with 150-some-odd of your closest pals and belting out sing-songy versions of your favorite(??) tunes arranged strategically to skip all that boring stuff to get you directly to the chorus.
Just spent a very enjoyable evening at Pat O’Brien’s in NOLA in the ‘dueling piano’ bar. Fun can be measured in the hoarseness of your voice.
Eames stamps
On the 17th, the USPS released a set of commemorative Charles and Ray Eames stamps.
Very cool, indeed.
Not quite as cool as my mid-century-mod-chair boxers, though!
Not too long ago, I posted about a project I’d been working on – an ‘orb’ that displays weather predictions as colors. The guts are based on Arduino and the lights are BlinkM‘s. Recently, I built a new home for the orb, made out of HDPE (high-density polyethylene – the stuff milk jugs are made of), using a pattern I discovered in ReadyMade that’s documented on Instructables.com. The idea is that you have a single ‘puzzle’ shape that you can use in different quantities and configurations to make different sized ‘platonic solids’.
I’m really happy with the results. I found a local shop that could cut the HDPE for me with a waterjet. Not exactly economical, but when TechShop opens it’s doors in NC this fall, I’ll be all over their Epilog laser-cutter.
In the pic above, the 12-piece lamp on the left has the Orb guts in it. The 30-piece one on the right holds a 25-watt ‘party light’.
Ok… so I finally jumped on the bandwagon. Man… easy to make and darn tasty. I recommend giving it a try!
Did you know that the fuel gauge icon in your dash lets you know what side of the car the tank-fill door is on? me neither!
I was giving my son a hard time the other day about his materialism as I perceived it. We’re walking through Target and he’s going “I want that… I want that too…” despite my protests that he has plenty of toys that he rarely plays with. I decide to go all zen on him: “Nathan – You don’t need more toys… Use your imagination! What if I took away all of your toys and just gave you a rock to play with. What kind of things could you do with a rock?”
His reply: “The first thing I’d do is hit you in the head with the rock and take back all of my toys!”
I purchased a pic from the Monster by Mail project. Here’s the time-lapse of mine being painted. I also got a swell t-shirt: “Hear no evil, see no evil, eat brains”. Nice.
Nate’s only benchmark for ninjas is an episode of Mythbusters. Nate does an imitation of Adam imitating a ninja.
Took the kids to the NC Zoo this week. My camera lets me do some limited video recording. I shot this at the end of the day, so the camera’s memory was full… but I think it’s enough to get the idea.